Show Your Baby And Mine By MYRTLE ELDRED RIGHTLY FED BABY STILL REFUSES TO GAIN The most puzzling feeding cases arc those in which the child is being fed exactly as a baby should be fed and still refuses to gain a il satisfactory number number num ber her of ounces When the baby is no not gaining and has no appetite for the food offered the case ease becomes just that much more complicated S Such ch is Mrs B. B Ws W.'s problem My daughter is 8 2 1 months old weighed 6 pounds at birth and arid now weighs 15 1 14 She gained until we put her heron heron heron on the bottle She doesn't seem to relish relish relish rel rel- rel- rel ish milk Here is her schedule 6 C a. a m. m C C 6 ounces of formula 8 a. a m. m 1 ounce of orange juice and cod liver oil 10 a. a m m. 3 tablespoonfuls of cereal cooked In milk and 6 ounces of formula 2 p. p m. m 2 1 yolk of hard cooked egg 6 G ounces o of formula 5 p. p m. m oran orange e juice and cod liver oil 6 p. p m. m cereal and nd formula formula for mula 10 p. p m. m formula Sometimes she will only take three or four ounces of her formula sometimes some some- times she refuses vegetable or cereal sometimes she will take milk from a acup acup acup cup when she refuses it by bottle Shall I wean he her to the cup and md how She is very good has hao four tour teeth sleeps all night and takes two naps daily Could I 1 feed her more cereal She would take more if it I would give it to hero her NEEDS NOURIS NOURISHMENT tIENT You failed to mention of what her formula consists but 1 if she refuses more more than three or four ounces of milk it had belter etter be nearly whole milk so that she gets the nourishment if not the usual quantity Give her six o ounces of whole boiled milk at each of her five feedings Offer set sev se several eral tablespoonfuls of cereal at both 10 a a. a m. m and 6 p. p m. m with wilh part of the feeding over it Offer the r rest st of the milk to drink from cup or bottle Give her plenty of water to drink I between meals so that her fluid needs are arc satisfied because she does not get the usual quantity of water in her milk formula There is nothing wrong with your schedule which fact makes it the more more difficult to su suggest gest any startling chan changes es that might bring brim startling results You might try changing changing chang chang- ing from the concentrated cod liver oil you are arc using to a plain oil Skim all cream from the milk Rich milks are often oHen responsible for wanIng wanIng waning wan wan- Ing appetites and skimming is desirable desirable desir desir- able when baby Is leaving part of each feeding The leaflet on Weaning From BottIe Bottle Bottle Bot Bot- tle tIe to Cup which you may have for fora a self addressed stamped envelope is helpful in outlining the method of ol introducing a new type of utensil But Bui it doesn't make much difference whether you ou give one whole feeding of milk by cup and then a whole feeding feeding feed feed- ing by bottle or whether you give part of each feeding by cup and the rest by bottle The latter method is ismore I Ismore more often successful because at first babies have only a limited capacity for or drinking milk b by cup and when tired go back to the familiar more primitive bottle drinking Mrs H H. M. M N. N Your baby is about one one-h one half lf pound underweight which is hardly worth mentioning I suggest that you put the orange juice with her milk or oi use tomato juice in her soup She needs those juices daily I suggest sug est also that you send me a self addressed and stamped envelope and let me send you the leaflet called Feeding From Twelve to Eighteen the Child Months and also Weaning From Bottle to Cup as Ill I'll wager she still drinks drinks' from a bottle Ask your doctor about since your baby seems affected by cod liver oil Tomorrow Misbehavior Almost Certain Product By-Product of Jealousy |