Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-09-28 | Page 3 | Your Baby and Mine

Your Baby and Mine By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED HOUR FOUR FOUR FEEDING INTERVALS INTERVALS INTER INTER- V VALS AL SIX IN ORDER MONTHS AFTER The he new born bor baby does docs not require require re re- quire food oftener than once in three hours The baby who weighs more than six pounds at birth can go co four four- hours with wih comfort and with a good weekly gain providing of cou course e that the food foo is i ample A two-hour two feeding Interval for a husky pound 23 child ehUd results result In gross gros overfeeding Mrs E. E Bs B.'s Infant daughter Is seven and one half one hal months old and is all al chuckles She sleeps from 6 p. p m. m to 7 a. a m. m and has done this since she was three months of a age c. c She h has no teeth but is i attempting to crawl TOO MANY FEEDINGS Her mother queries I would like to know If 1 I need to t give her a botte bottle bot bot- bot- bot tIc tle te at 7 a a. a m. m m. m as she doesn't seem to want ant it Also Alo may I omit her 2 p. p m. m feeding and give her Just a acup acup acup cup of milk mik Instead She takes both orange ornge juice and soup by cup Here is i the te way she is 1 fed 7 a a. a m. m m. Bottle O 0 a. a m. m range m.-range Orange m.-Orange Orange juice 10 a a. a m. m Cereal m.-Cereal Cereal and six si ounces of mik milk 12 noon Vegetable noon Vegetable soup and ad rusk sometimes sieved vegetables 2 p. p m. m Eight m.-Eight Eight ounces of milk mil 4 p. p m. m m. Cereal m-Cereal Cereal 6 p. p m. m Eight m.-Eight Eight ounces of milk mik She is i plump and ad firm but not fat at tat Her formula formula consists of thirty ounces of milk mik ten ounces of ot water and two tablespoons of or corn syrup Milk Mik Is i a food foo exactly as is cereal Every time you ou give the baby a a cu cup of ot milk mik you are arc giving her a a meal men mealand and from your schedule you can see how many meals meat she gets a day Her first fist meal should be at nt 7 a a. a m ni Just her bottle botte of ot milk mil At 9 B a a. a m m. she may my have orange juice This may maj be given Riven ven right with breakfast but small smal babies often ofen enjoy it more keenly when it is given alone At 11 1 a. a m m. pour some of her milk mik over her cereal and give the rest to t drink by bottle or cup The long morning moring nap follows 5 immediately At Al 3 p. p m. m give her vegetable soup or vegetables with wIh rusk followed by bettIe bottle bet bot bt- bt tIe tle te of milk mik At 7 p. p m. m give cereal folo followed cd by the last lat bottle botte of milk mUk She takes only four feedings a day so she should have whole milk without without with with- wih- wih out sugar or water You arc are preparing in log ing five bottles bottes no now and giving only four Thus she does doe not get thirty ounces of milk mik but only twenty twenty- T- T four an inadequate amount for tor a baby weighing twenty-three twenty pounds Give one quart of milk mik a day daj 1 If I I you ou cook her cereal in half halt milk mik and andI I half hah water divide the rest of the quart of milk into four bottles giving giving ing ig them at the above hours hous If I you want to end the baby's day at 6 you ou must give the vegetable meal a at 2 p. p m. m and the last lat meal at 6 p. p m rn This makes make an interval of ot only three hours hour between 11 1 and 2 but that Is i all al right for this one meal I Tomorrow Helter Methods Meth Meth- otis od Are Hard nard on Baby