Show Your Baby and Mine By nj MY MYRTLE MEYER MEYEl BOTTLES FADE FROM PICTURE AFTER FIRST BIRTHDAY Y 1 In a great many wa ways s 's customs change right under our very noses noses It isn't so o many years ago that the sight of oC a child of oC 2 or 3 T running about with a nursing bottle of ot milk mik occasioned no comment whatever unless perhaps the sentimental one She loves her bottle botte so Now such evidences c o of infantile behavior br broad broad- di cast the mothers mother's negligence ner ncr tendency tendency ten ten- dency to prevent the orderly progression progression sion o of development Bottles loUes as Babies will wi cling to 10 their bottles botes as long one as they are arc allowed to do so Any habit begun so early in i life le becomes becomes be comes increasingly dear to the child Bottles Bottes arc are comforting and comfor comfor- table It I demands no effort no concentration concentration con can no special ability and litle littie lit lit- l. l tie te le intelligence to drink milk mik from froma a bottle botte Naturally the child wants I bottles The recognition that they are bottes comforters as truly as a paci- paci pac pac- ier fier or anything else which the child can keep in his hi mouth as a help in drifting to dreamland is apparent Many a n child will wm drink all al the milk mik he ic needs by cup but only the bottle botte wm will fill ti his need when it i comes to nap or bedtime No possibility Inthis in inthis this his case for the mother to argue that he ic needs the milk mik Bottles are out of or order after the Bottes first birthday but one cannot possibly pos pos- sibly expect to discard bottles bottes then ther thel unless there has been practice in the these te use se of cup or glass glas previous to this thi the time baby can sit up he hean cars cal an learn lear to drink water and ad orange juice juie from a cup There may be bc much bubbling and spilling but constant practice in the thc art results result in a re- re re degree of ot efficiency when the ic child is a year er old Start Early Earh The practice in drinking kin part of ot Ithe he the formula b by cup can be sta started ted even earlier than the ninth month and earler be well wel established at one year car Offer Offer Of Of- fer only an ounce e ounce or so of ot the regular regu lar feeding by cup Then let the child finish the feeding by bottle botte Increase In crease the amount by cup slowly so that in time tie all 31 el eight ht o ounces are consumed consumed consumed con con- in irs this fashion The younger the child the more easily he hc learns leas such new habits habis and the weaker becomes becomes be be- be comes the hold of the bottle botte habit It I is the older child whose bottle botto drinking has gone on for a year or two who cannot be persuaded to drink milk mik at all al if i he cant can't have it in inthis inthis inthis this manner My leaflet Weaning the Child From Bottle Botte to Cup deals especially with wih this difficult problem of the older child whose devotion to bottles botes is s a seemingly incurable habit habit A self addressed stamped envelope sent to Mrs Myrtle Myrte Meyer Eldre of the Your Baby and Mine department of this newspaper will wi bring it i to you you Progress Our changed attitudes toward the bottle bote habit have resulted from a better beter knowledge of bow how a n child grows crows and develops Baby habits habit retained re rc tamed beyond the year of ot infancy are area a areal real detriment to the childs child's mental and physical development development New habits habit of eating the use of spoons and cups for tor feeding and self self- feeding all al demanding a greater use of ot the hands and an increasing measure measure mea men sure of ot intelligence prod the child onward and upward They are arc all al steps in growth Failure to give the child an opportunity to practice more difficult ways of eating is equivalent to o putting a figurative brick on his head and holding him down to a lower mental and physical level No mother 1 would be consciously gi guilty of such developmental stunting I Tomorrow Simple Lct Best fo foI I Mother Iother and Dab Baby Bab |