Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-03-25 | Page 8 | Your Baby and Mine

Your Baby and Mine By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED IF BABY REFUSES CUP DONT DON'T REVERT TO BOTTLE Without doubt many children show little ittle or no Interest in milk after bottles bot hot ties les have been taken from them Milk to them means something warm ad aud sweet and strongly flavored with rubber And the bottle habit habith h has ls them in its it grip rip It isn't the milk that is important to them its it's the he agreeable sensation of lying in bed gnawing and sucking upon this rubber comforter But there are arc habits habit which we cannot cannot cannot can can- not allow them to indulge Drinking from rom bottles after one year is one of them hem Baby has to learn new ways of eat eating n and to accept new sils The mother mothel cannot allow him himo to o remain a slave to the bottle however however however how how- ever a agreeable for all concerned Baby Habit The whole problem of getting a achild achild 1 child to accept a cup Is simply the problem of divorcing him from a baby habit labit To do that results in elevating ng mE him to the next level of development develop develop- ment mente To allow him hint to continue to take a bottle keeps him below a level which he lie should achieve with ease case at 1 year When a mother questions Why not let him have it He loves it so I might also ask Why encourage e him lim to walk Why not let him creep all his life When she says He UHe wont won't get enough milk to drink Unless uness unless un- un less ess he takes it by bottle bottIe she simply means that she is interpreting his present distaste for milk by cup as a n permanent one She is pretending that hat because he doesn't want milk by cup today he will never want it by cup That of course is too shortsighted shortsighted shortsighted short short- sighted and spineless a policy to deserve deserve de de- de serve much consideration If a mother is once convinced that she need not struggle to m make ke the child accept milk by cup the need for any emotional upheavals arc are erased Children will not starve for fora a few days or a week or a month if they do not take lake one quart of milk milka a day If milk mUk is not there to drink by ay bottle the child will satisfy his hison hunger on other foods Eventually having forgotten the bottle entirely hell he'll begin to experiment with this liquid in the cup He may take only a few sips and push it awa away If his mother is indifferent to whether he lie drinks it or not hell he'll see no obvious reason why he should refuse it Go Halfway Flavored milks are often acceptable acceptable acceptable accept accept- able when the plain milk is spurned One can always afford to go halfway with this proposition Cocoa as a flavoring fruit juices and malt powders powders pow pow- ders result In a tasteful beverage which the child may drink with rel rel- rel- rel ish Weaning the Child from Crom Bottle to Cup is a leaflet available to any reader who ho needs further help with this problem Just send a self self- addressed stamped envelope with your request for it to Myrtle Meyer Eldred of the Your Baby and Mine department of this newspaper Uncertain Mrs F. F N. N S. S says that her 14 old month-old baby will take chocolate malt flavored milk by the cup but bui someone has told her that this is not nota a wise vise thing to give In your particular case I think the flavoring used is more suitable to an older child Much the same result could be obtained by using one level teaspoon of cocoa boiled with two tablespoons of water and added to one cup of plain milk Let me mc send you Menus from 12 to 18 Months so that you may note the difference between your our present diet and the one in the leaflet Tomorrow Never Ridicule Childs Child's Fears