Show T EXPANSION OF BABY'S r 1 DIET MUST BE B STEADY OVER PERIOD OF YEAR YEA Begins With Addition of Food Containing Vitamin C Bring Brin your problems about diet general care and mana management manage manage- c. c ment to Mrs 1 Eldred In care of the Your Baby Biby ab- ab and Mine 1 dc- dc department de de- of or this newspaper Your qu que questions e s t I Ion 0 fl s will ill be answered promptly if It you ou will vIll e a self self addressed 3 cent stamped envelope with your jour our letter By MYRTLE MEYER l ELDRED The expansion of or the b baby's diet from rom breast milk or cows cow's milk alonto alone alon aloneo to o contain all an the foods essential to proper growth and development is continuous throughout the first nine months It begins with the addition o of some vitamin C food to the diet to supple supple- nent ment the limited supplies of vitamin C in baby's milk formula Orange juice and tomato juice are given first and these may slip into the diet as early as the second month Beginning at about the same time the thc vitamin D preparations become as much a part of the diet as the thc additions additions additions ad ad- deemed strictly foods Because of ot the varied nature of these preparations preparations preparations prep prep- I suggest that mothers who do not understand the difference between between be be- tween plain oils super D oils and send a three-cent three self ad dressed stamped envelope to this department department de de- de- de and ask for the leaflet Cod Liver Oil and Other Vitamin D fl Prod U Having introduced orange juice and I cod liver oil during the first few foods appear on baby f bill o of fare inthe form of well delicately flavored wheat or oa oat or one of the precooked cereals d do signed especially for babies g These additions addition l' l result suIt in a diet thi tha will satisfy most babl babIes up to tt sixth month at which time e egg r yoU yol Is included not dailY a whole egg at at t once I hasten to add Some babic babico have a marked sensitivity towar eg gW eggs s and would be made violently i ru if f fed whole a egg jI Just a teaspoonful of hard cooke cook ij and nd mashed egg yolk or cooke yolk olk mixed with bread C crumbs n Is u to determine baby's baby s own oi tion ion to it If un uneventful v more more eg ege be e added daily until baby ca can Hate the whole yolk along wi with rit 2 p p. p m. m feeding of vegetables o othe the he form of custard using part milk allowance There is no particular rule as es whether sieved vegetables or 1 yolk olk should be bethe the first food ch chosen Sen this time tim But one at a time is is' is rul rule Vegetables can be started cs in teaspoonful amounts i ered before belore the 2 p. p m. m mulL and 1 feeding and bab baby's s 's n noti Carrots and spinach are still fa faw ites tes though many other can be tried To the parent who has carried o l such a program with intelligence ai caution the re reward rd is a health hearty baby whose hos mental and p ph cal ical development should keep p pae pg with or excel that of any r baby I W |