Show Your Baby and Mine By MYRTLE 1 ELDRED I WHEN WilEN EVERYTHING IS RIGHT CEASE WORRYING At 1 year the average baby has six teeth two lower and four upper ones There Ther is naturally a slight deviation de de- de one way or the other and If ii baby jaby hasn't exactly this number of ci teeth or shows no signs of getting them the first thing that needs criticism cism is the diet How much milk is he getting How much cereal orange orange orange or or- ange juice vegetables and cod liver oil How much sunshine and fresh air and how many rest periods Everything that pertains to baby has hasto hasto hasto to be bo regarded with the sharp eye of ot suspicion Sometimes one can find nothing I obviously wrong in which case the sensible thing is to say Well Im I'm doing everything that should be done Those teeth will wilI just have to come through Then forget about them SLOW TEETH Mrs N N. H H. R. R is crossing her bridges bridge ahead of ot time She confides My baby jaby is 11 12 2 months old and I have been reading your column for 11 V months I have found it very helpful Ive I've never written you jou before but bul L now Im I'm worried My baby weighs weigh 26 pounds and is healthy in every P way vay She gets 28 ounces of ot milk milic with four ounces of ot water in four faux bottles At 8 o'clock she has orange juice and cereal At noon vegetables dessert cod liver live oil and her bottle bottIe At 3 she gets a bottle and at 6 cereal bottle and cod liver oil Sh She sleeps from from to the next morning She walks around her playpen What worries me Mrs Eldred is that she has only two teeth She got these two months ago Should I r worry about this She is an excellent cater eater and she sleeps from one and one half to two hours in the afternoon What can I give her that will act as a laxative I shall appreciate ap- ap appreciate any ny comment Should I give her whole milk or continue to dilute it i t GIVE WHOLE MILK 1 These four teeth may pop through a at tany any time so I r should not consider J i her backward enough in teething to toJ to even talk about Her diet is excellent You can give 32 ounces of whole milk now for if you dilute the milk you need some sugar in it that it-that that would act as a 3 natural natural nat nat- natural ural laxative laxative but but if it you give the whole quart of milk with no dilutIon dilution dilu- dilu tIon this should take care of itself INCREASES Perhaps an increase in the orange juice might be a advisable Also try larger portions of cereal and You leave me rather in the dark by enumerating the foods but not the amounts Those are important important tant too In her case her ver very large weight her apparent satisfaction and good nature argue that everything is isas isas isas as it should be If the teeth are exceptionally ex cx slow in appearing consult consult con con- sult suit the doctor Otherwise be patient and expect them to appear shortly Would you like to have my lea leaflets lets letson on Average Ages at Which First and Second Teeth Appear and Diet From 12 to 18 Months There are area a few changes you can make after the first year Any reader may have these leaflets by sending a self ad dressed stamped envelope with each request to the Your Baby and arid Mine department of ot this newspaper S Tomorrow Parenthood Brings Obligations as Well as Pleasures I |