Show Your Baby Ba by and Mine By MYRTLE TL MEYER ME ELDRED I t THE TUE WAKEFUL BABY IS ALMOST ALWAYS A HUNGRY BABY It Is fairly safe to generalize and state that ft a baby's sleeplessness Is 15 almost always related in some way to his food The baby who goes goe to sleep at 7 and hardly peeps throughout throughout through through- out the night is in general well fed led The baby who wakens wakeD half a Do dozen times imes at night or even two or three times Imes sl sleeps ps restlessly or cries out in n his sleep Is usually a a. hungry bab babOne baby One can easily confirm these observations Jons by taking careful note of the baby's gain ln in weight If It the baby 1 is climbing upward from tram one and one- one half haIt to two pounds a month in weight we must look beyond hunger to find reasons for his wakefulness but If tf in n addition to his wakefulness baby Is s failing falling to gain as ns should be cx cx- cx food is at the root of his troubles roubles V WAKEFUL AND RESTLESS Mrs E. E T. T or perhaps it is F. F T. T seems to feel that her baby's problem problems is s different She writes Will wm you kindly tell me what to do with him He is almost 9 months old and weighs 15 4 3 pounds having weighed seven at birth He seems so 50 small tome to tome tome me and for some time he has been so cross doesn't sleep well at night waking three or four times and wont won't go back to sleep until I 1 nurse muse him He takes only a 20 minute nap Inthe in inthe inthe the morning and from 20 to 45 minutes min mm- utes in the afternoon He has two upper and two lower teeth and two more lower ones Would that make him so cross I 1 give him two teaspoons of or cod liver iver oil oll daily all aU at one time He used to take it fine but I have to force it now We give him the Juice of ot one small orange nearly every day He is 15 nursed between 5 and 7 in the morning Has his orange juice at a a. a m. m bath at cereal and milk at 10 a. a m. m sieved vegetables or coddled yolk of egg and nursing at 1 p. p m. m nursing at 4 p. p m. m cereal again at 7 and nursing at when he ic usually usually- goes to sleep Thank you for any suggestions TIME IE TO WEAN There Is nothing very wrong In the way you are arc giving the additional foods Therefore what is wrong must the be-the breast feedings The boy is four tour pounds underweight considering considering considering consid consid- ering both age and birth weight He HeIs Heis Is Is dissatisfied and unhappy and wakeful The one one and only thing todo to todo todo do is is' to wean him which is probably what should have been done several months ago when he failed to keep up UI a regular rate of gain Teeth are simply an additional ir irritatIon irritation irritation ir- ir they are not the real cause of his crossness The real cause caus is his undernourished body which is continually crying out for food You did not mention the amounts of the additional foods but they too may be inadequate HOUR FOUR-HOUR INTERVALS Try Try using the straight hour four schedule 6 2 and begin weaning weaning wean- wean ing ng Immediately Nine months is the proper time for this for any baby and especially for babies who are waking wak- wak ing ng two or more times at night We offer a leaflet How to Wean the Breast Fed Baby which should be helpful to you now and the leaflet on Feeding From 2 to 12 Months Months' will be equally so Either one or both bothof of these leaflets are available to any reader who will send a self addressed stamped envelope with each request for lor them Offer one half teaspoonful of cod liver Iver oil after each meal thus ing ng the two teaspoonfuls into four tour doses Small amounts are far easier for baby to take and nd digest Tomorrow Tomorrow Infantile Habits May Result From Emotional Strain |