Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-11-13 | Page 20 | Your Baby and Mine

Your Baby and Mine By MY MYRTLE MEYER I r HEADS ARE MOLDED BY NATURE NOT NOr BY SLEEPING G HABITS There are few babies who tho ho do not develop some preferential manner of sleeping Some lie flat on stomachs or backs while others lie He persistently on right or left leU sides No matter in what position baby chooses to sl slum slum- m- m Iber ber his mother is worn threadbare endeavoring to change it Her chief fear is that the shape of his head willbe will willbe willbe be ruined If one mi makes kes a study of adult heads and ana compares those of or the children with the parents one discovers that heads are arc just about what heredity makes them Likewise while baby's head barren or hair shows its every defect the adult head fortunately is covered with hair and any minor imperfections are not seen scene LET BABY ALONE Just for the sake of his comfort we ought to turn the baby from side to side since he can not do this for him him- selL self But to tie knots on his back or stuff one side with pillows so that he may be prevented from lying lyIng as ashe ashe he most wants to lie He is carrying such I helpfulness to extreme Mrs 1 D D. D. D R. R is is' sure that the flatness flat fIat n ness ss of her baby's head is due entirely en tir ly to her fondness for tor sleeping on her back She has made every effort to prevent her doing this but however she is placed she always manages to end up on her back Mrs R. R wants to know if U I can suggest any way of molding her head She writes also She is 14 H weeks old and arid weighs 13 pounds She is apparently apparently apparently ap ap- ap- ap healthy in every respect and andis is out of at doors most of the day but lately I have been having a great deal of trouble with the Irregularity of her bowels At first her bowels moved every other day now it is only every third day I 1 give her seven teaspoons of orange juice without water every morning and recently I added cod WI liver oil all to her diet How much should she have of this daily You'll gather from the beginning of I this article I Imagine that I am far tar from convinced that b babies bles ruin the shapes of their heads by sleeping in any particular position The fact tact remains that all of them have decided preferences and yet et adult heads de develop develop develop de- de into the characteristic family shape Roll baby over just to rest resther resther resther her when sh she is sleeping but If it she rolls back dont don't worry about it Try massaging the abdomen for a afew afew afew few moments each day choosing the hour at which the baby's bowels move naturally Try to establish a habitual movement at this time You may have leaflet my on Constipation which offers other ideas on the subject sub sub- A self addressed stamped envelope envelope envelope en en- is sufficient to get any leaflet I offer in this column It is better to dilute the orange juice with water vater Give two tablespoons tablespoons tablespoons table table- spoons of juice and two of water v and repeat the feeding again at 5 p. p m. m pr Or try prune juice or prune pulp at 5 p. p m. m At this this' age baby should get two teaspoons of cod liver oil daily divided into four even doses Start with five tive drops and increase by one more drop each cach day until the above amount is reached Tomorrow Tomorrow Profanity Impressed on Child by Parents Parent's Dramatic Reactions Re Re- actions