Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-10-04 | Page 16 | Your Baby and Mine

Your Baby and Mine By Dy MYRTLE MEYER 1 ELD ED Breakfast is an important part of the scho school l childs child's da day For ideas in making the first meal an enjoyable one write to the Your Baby and Mine department of or this newspaper for Mrs Eldred's leaflet Breakfast Menus for the School Child Be sure to enclose a self addressed envelope bearing a three cent stamp CHRONIC CURONIC Ol VOMITING MAY BE BEA BEA BEA A SERIOUS TYPE There are arc innumerable reasons why children regurgitate their milk beginnIng beginning be be- ginning with overfeeding and ending end end- ing lag with pyloric But whatever its cause even a mild degree degree degree de de- de- de gree of chronic spitting up needs at at- Spitting up by the overfed baby means probably that he has too much food or is being fed too fre fre- fre- fre A little dribbling immediately immediate immediate- ly after the baby is fed may be ignored ignored ig ig- ig- ig nored but when baby regularly spits back a large portion of his food it is well to reduce his consumption Baby profits when he is prevented from developing developIng developing de de- de- de the habit of vomiting POSSIBLE CAUSES When the various food elements Inthe inthe in inthe the formula are poorly proportioned the vomiting may be of or different types The spitting up of large tough cheesy lumps often indicates that baby is having difficulty in digesting the protein clement element Boiling the milk makes the curd more digestible The use of some of of- the processed milks which have undergone long cooking is a wise procedure Be sure also that baby is not being asked to digest more protein than he needs Mothers may compare their formulas formu formu- las with the thc average ones in my leaflet leaf lear let How to Prepare Sweet Milk Formulas and note whether the amounts of milk they are using exceed ex cx- their baby's needs This leaflet leanet as as' as aswell well as Reasons for Vomiting may be obtained from this department department department depart depart- ment by any reader Send a a self ad i dressed envelope bearing a three-cent three stamp with your request for them so SOMETHING iG WRONG When the thc sugar element clement of ot the formula is excessive the baby may I spit up a watery sour fluid an hour or more after eating This type of vomiting indicates that the child is having difficulty with his formula and that its elements clements need changing Children have variable abilities to di dl- gest sugar and some of them have their digestions taxed with excessive quantities of sugar The projectile type of ot vomiting so named because of or the force with which the contents of or the stomach are shot out of the mouth needs medical aid lid This is not so much a question of food as of ot physical disability ChangIng Chang Chang- Ing from one food to another in no way helps the baby and serious mal mal- nutrition is encouraged unless the condition is dealt with Intelligently Nervous babies vomit more easily than placid babies active babies more easily than quiet ones But chronic vomiting should be given the mothers mothers mother's moth moth- ers er's immediate attention n. n Tomorrow Childs School Situation Situa Situa- tion May Need Adjustment I