Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-12-07 | Page 8 | Your Baby and Mine

V f Your You Baby a and ami nd Mine By YRTLE ELDRED DONT DON'T URGE BAY BABY TO STA STAND D BEFORE HES HE'S ABLE I have difficulty at at- t times In n recognizing rec ne- rec- rec the pictures that mothers mothen draw of ol their babies figuratively of course Here Is who tells me that her six and one half months old baby Is standing up and hanging banKing to the window sill am This Is possible for babies of this age will WUI make snake stepping step ping movements when hen held on their weak eak legs and might be able to bear their weight upon tipon them for a short ort time tUne but to allow the baby to stand standup standup up and cling to a window sill Seems seems to me nothing to be proud of ot Standing up Is natural for U the baby of nine mon months hs of age but even at this are age the activity can be bo overdone The proper activities for the six or seven months old baby arc are sitting sitting up up and creeping No mat matter r how precocious precocious precocious pre pre- the baby he should not be encouraged to step around or bear his his' weight weighton on his legs at ut this early age The walking walling activity can easU easily be shoved into the future A GOOD SCHEDULE Mrs J. J P. P Ds D.'s baby has hu gained at better than average rate and is being fed exceedingly well This This- would make him a healthy and well devel child He is fed only Jour four times Umes daily at l 11 7 3 3 and 7 and his mother asks ks me to criticise ise the program which follows 7 1 1 a. a Hi Cereal Cereal with part of formula for for- formula formula mula cod liver oil oU and five live ounces of formula 9 a a. a m. m. m Juice of a whole orange 11 II a. a m. m Two m.-Two Two tablespoons of vegetable vege t table ble and seven ounces of formula 3 p. p m. m Egg m.-Egg Egg yolk two tablespoons of ot either cither prune prone or peach pulp and seven ounces of formula 5 p. p m Two mr-Two Two ounces of either prune Juice or tomato juice 7 1 p. p m. m m. Same Same as at T. T tal a a. a m. m Sleeps Bleeps eps all aU night The formula consists of ot 14 ounces 14 ounces of evaporated milk 14 of water and two tablespoons of sugar Everything here Is b splendid except of ot course that business Of t standing up I suggest Mrs J. J P. P D. D that you send me inc a sell self stamped envelope envelope envelope en en- for the leaflet called CUed Nomal Physical Development the First Firs Year Year 1 which discusses the average ages age at which the healthy baby sits up creeps walks teethes etc DONT DON'T COURT TROUBLE It seems a a. poor policy to mix mix cod co coliver liver oil with the cereal l as u you said sale you were doing Cod liver oil hasn't hant hasna hanta a particularly pleasing flavor anc and neither Is it destined to be a continuous ous flavor in the diet After the seq seq- ond year the baby won wont won't t need coc cod liver oil oU and 1 If he has become thoroughly thor thor- accustomed to cereal flavored ored in that manner hell he'll turn up his nose at it 1 If the oil ollIs Is 1 left ft out but If It on the contrary he comes to have a dislike for for- forthe the oil oU hell he'll turn against all all' cereals too too since since they are areso so inextricably attached to cereal In his mind Cod u liver oil may maybe be in tasteless or flavored form A Ir it Is 15 safely down it may be fo by pleasant tasting fruit Juices put cod liver oil In baby's mIj mIlk fOl mula muta or orin in any of the essential t foo foaL is court to to court future feeding T Tomorrow morrow Remember r. r r Youth Dont Don't Wet Blanket nul JIbb s. s