Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-12-26 | Page 6 | Daily Health Service

Daily Health Service I LUCKY IS IS THE TilE MOTHER WHOSE BABY SLEEPS WELL SWELL Few babies sleep as much as th the mothers would like to have them When they do they are apt to slee sleep at the wrong time At any rate this is the only complaint of Mrs F. F E E. B BI Her boy is five months old and anda isa is isa a fine weight His diet of six mea meals c consists of two ounces of canned milk four ounces of oC water and on one teaspoonful of both sugar and Urn lime limewater water at each feeding SLEEPS AND SLEEPS She Is perplexed about how to manage manage man man- age his sleeping hours He lie slumbers slumber from 6 p p. p m. m to 6 a. a m m. except for a 10 p p. p m m. feeding He has a nap from 9 a a. a m m. until 12 and another more fi fitful fit fit- ful sleep from 1 p p. m m. m to 3 p p. m. m Then The he gets sleepy at 5 p p. p m m. and she is 1 hard put to entertain him until his bis 6 n p. p D. D m. m f feed inc Her questions ns arc are Should he hav more canned milk Is canned millas milk mill as good as fresh milk How muc much sleep should he have daily A baby weighing 15 pounds ma may take as much as 15 ounces of ot evaporated eVaporated evaporated rated milk daily He ma may have seven I ounces at each feeding a larger supply sup sup- I ply of sugar and no lime water whIch is unnecessary The lime the baby needs is furnished by the milk CHANGE FORMULA IULA It would be better to increase the milk slowly up to the amount mentioned mentioned mentioned men men- and cut the number of meals to five four in the daytime and one oneat oneat oneat at night Then the formula would result in something like this 15 ounces of evaporated milk 20 oun ounces es of boiled boned yater and one to one anc and one half ounces of corn syrup To question whether a thing is Js as asgood asgood asgood good as something else demands a careful answer Both fresh and canned milks furnish the same nutrition nutrition nutrition tion except that fresh milk has a z larger supply of vit vitamin C. C When canned milk is used this vitamin is supplied by daily servings of oC orange or tomato Juice which arc are rich inthis m jn this clement Canned milk is clean stable easy to get easy to digest and has a type of homogenized fat which is likewise easy for baby baby to to digest When a milk provides adequate nutrition nu nu- nutrition in an easily assimilated ted form there is certainly no reason to say that hat it is not the equal of any other milk YOURE YOU'RE LUCKY Your baby is sleeping 11 flea hours at night three in the morning and andone andone one and one half to two in the afternoon after after- noon Lucky mother other There is js no need here for anything but thanksgiving thanksgiving thanks thanks- giving certainly not complaints AtS At 5 in the afternoon n give baby anair an anair anair air bath Undress him in a warm room rub him gently with some warmed oil or Just or-Just just leave him alone to kick and wriggle in delightful freedom free free- ree dom from irom restraining clothes and you youn you'll 11 find th that t hell he'll entertain himself th that t last half hour of his long day Then sponge him off ort quickly slip sUp him into his clean warm nightclothes and pop him into his bed with his bottle Airing the Baby at All Seasons is t the e title of a leaflet le available to any mother Send a self addressed stamped enve envelope with your request to me mc in care of this newspaper Tomorrow Children Accept Cor Car Playmates