Show Your Baby and Mine By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED DEFICIENT DIET FOSTERS The human being seems insistent upon balance Too much brings problems problems lems quite as quickly as too little If f we overfeed a R child l Jf If we underfeed underfeed under under- feed him if we give him too much nuch attention or too little attention If it we weare weare weare are overanxious or indifferent we find none of these extremes success success- ful We must continually strive for tor balance Constipation can result from over overfeeding over feeding and under feeding The overfed overfed over over- fed baby is called upon to excrete such quantities of accumulated residue residue resi real due that daily dally movements ments become painful Saving himself this agony results of or constipation The underfed baby will be constipated since there is insufficient residue to stimulate normal bowel activity Result Re- Re suit sult constipation DUST DIET SCANTY This baby of 20 months seems to tobe to tobe tobe be receiving plenty of bulk in her heri diet but lacks milk or other complete cornI corn com I protein foods She Is greatly com I troubled with constipation and andS S bleed bleeding ng at stooL Here is the way she is being fed at nt present I Breakfast dast Orange and whole I wheat cereal Lunch Three Lunch Three teaspoonfuls of oat I meal sometimes three minute boiled egg She sleeps outside for three hours and comes in perspiring l lunch lunch lunch-A A bottle of warm milk Supper Vegetable Supper Vegetable soup bread and butter and water in preference to milk She sleeps from to and weighs weichs 33 pounds Her mother asks several questions Is her diet right Is she too warmly dressed outdoors Shall her front teeth which arc coated coaled be brushed She has difficulty teething and whatever what what- ever evel she begins to bite hard on things I give her a teething powder WEIGHT GOOD The weight here is far better than average while the diet Is extremely mely limited and the picture of the whole day Is that of a younger child ehUd Eight ounces of milk can easily be incorporated incorporated incorporated into the childs child's diet If It her appetite is so poor the deficiency of the diet Is probably responsible The teeth should be brushed daily dally and If there is a hard deposit which brushIng brushIng brush brush- Ing cannot remove have them cleaned by n a dentist Teething powders powders powders pow pow- ders are valueless to overcome any real difficulty of teething It is evident that she is dressed too warmly IMPROVED DIET Here is the way she should be fed now Breakfast Whole Breakfast Whole wheat cereal with milk buttered toast and warm milk drink Midmorning Midmorning Juice Juice of an orange Lunch Vegetable Lunch Vegetable soup with sieved vegetables in mit It it or sieved vegetables vege tables alone Meat fish chicken cottage cottage cot cot- cot I tage cheese or egg Bread and hut but but I ter Milk dessert or milk to drink lunch Small lunch Small glass of ot I milk Two crackers Supper The Supper The same a i with the addition of or a small dish or on cooked fruit I The difficulty in teething should Ibe be overcome by this better diet and andi by Iby giving civin cod liver oil daily The l practice ot of letting the child sleep outdoors daily is an excellent one one though I think a shorter nap and an earlier bed hour are arc desirable Tomorrow Let John Do It IU IH Battle Cry of Household |