Show Y Your our Baby and Mi Ml By Dy MYRTLE YRTLE ELDRED BABY'S DABY'S NIGHT WAKEFULNESS IS LAST STRAW I It takes a long time to slough off oU old ways WR'S and institute new ones The older older old old- er cr generation habited to Ideas and I methods of child chUd care reacts slowly to I change chance And many of the younger generation adopt their mothers' mothers Ideas and opinions without being aware that there have been drastic changes in child care and feeding in the last 25 or more years One of oC the older ideas which is difficult to eradicate is the desirability ity of prolonged nursing There still exist such Ideas as babies should be nursed until they have their stomach and eye teeth or through the second summer or for some other equally unsatisfactory reason TIMES HAVE YE CHANGED GED 1 I This might be bc well except that the I average mother is lucky i if she can successfully nurse her infant for seven seven sev sev- en months and she is exceptional 11 ii H HI I she can cnn continue for the nine months months' I period now looked upon as the ulti ulti- I mate goal It is the height of folly to tal keep on nursing a baby who isn't nt being provided with sufficient nourishment nourishment nour nour- nour-I nour to make teething possible a athe at the normal time or to keep on nurs nurs- I bIg ing C an already undernourished child through the second summer Young mothers arc not always alert to the signs that weaning is imminent or even imperative They continue nursing their babies hunting far am and wide to find the reasons for failure to gain ain constipation fretfulness anc and night wakefulness The mother treats ts' ts each of these separately pretending that the baby's failure to gain is due to teething that he needs to be bc shown who is boss when he cries that a few doses of physic will end his constipation BABY BAny O ONLY LY HUNGRY What confounds her to the point o of oC askin asking advice is his annoying tendency tendency ten ten- dency to wake up half hat a dozen times at night and demand to 10 be nursed It comes as a real shock to her to learn that the days of nursing are numbered What baby needs is more to cat One of the most commonplace commonplace common common- commonplace place signs of the need for weaning is baby's wakefulness at night night- Usually Usual Usual- ly the mother insists that up to tn a certain thin tain age he slept all night but since that time he wakes akes and cries and nothing but a nursing wilt will satisfy him This Is the time to suspect that his daytime rations arc are not sufficient for his needs Unable to sleep soundly he pieces out his unsatisfactory meals by nursing several times at night night- This is hard on the baby but baby but harder on the mother mother and and crystallizes poor sleeping habits which unless corrected correct correct- ed cd may persist even after his diet is improved ABOUT FACE If It mothers are trying to treat this problem of ot wakefulness as one Unrelated unrelated unrelated un un- related to food let them about face lace and increase baby's daytime nourishment nourishment nourishment nourish nourish- ment to see what happens Mothers may have my leaflet leanet Weaning the Breast Fed Baby which outlines this process as a slow and easy one Send Senda iq a self addressed stamped envelope with your request for it it- All babies should bc be weaned leaned at nine months Many of or them by their ac actions actions ae- ae and symptoms need wean weaning in even cven as early as the sixth month It Itis Itis Itis is always a safe rule to look first to baby's nourishment as us a reason for I I I fretfulness constipation h gain and wakefulness treating them as s problems 1 Tomorrow Buttons and antl I hole holes Enthrall the Chili Child Jh J |