Show WELL WELL FED FED BABY CUTS TEETH WITHOUT LOSS OF WEIGHT OR SLEEP SLEET Time Is Past When cn Fr Fretfulness Fretful Fretful- ness ess Can Be Vi Viewed wed as Natural By MYRTLE l MEYER METER ELDRED Bring Brine your problems about diet general care and management management manage manage- ment to o Myrtle Myer lyer Eldred Your questions will be answered promptly if you will a a. self addressed cent 3 stamped e en envelope with your letter to Mrs Eldred in care of at the Your Baby and Mine 1 department of this newspaper The time is long past when a mothers mother's moth er ers er's s explanation of a childs child's fretfulness fretful fretful- l. l ness ncr or inability to gain or to sleep sleeps Is is s willy nilly because of teething The well baby teethes with few or oi orno orno no observable symptoms He cuts cut S teeth sas as he grows bones or adds S pounds without the world being aware aware of it iL t At 7 or 8 months sometimes before sometimes s after he cuts two low lower r front teeth By the th-e end nd of th the first firs t year he has in addition four upper central teeth Between then and th the eighteenth month he cuts culs six more morl teeth and nd by y the is two years yean S Sold old has 18 teeth The last Jast two teeth I are cut any anytime time between the Uie twenty twenty- fourth burth and thirty sixth months mak mak- ing ng the full set sel of ot 20 biters cutters cutten 5 and chewers It is not unusual for well babies to tc show how some slight upset at the time tim S the he teeth are separating from Crom th the gums Th This s may take the form a of C Can an increased activity of ot the bowels c perhaps a disposition to refuse Defuse the thi S full ull amounts of food offered and an at i increased ed fretfulness This may mys mys- mother for a da day two or-two anc and I then hen she realizes its cause 1 The e bab baby V has cut a new tooth If II teething could rightly be blamed blame for or failure to grow row for chronic fretfulness fretfulness fret fret- these conditions would b be e present from birth for a baby Is I S literally teething from birth to lo three e years To recognize this Hils makes I it t nothing lothing but ridiculous to o blame blam teething for the baby's chronic ma mal nal malnutrition L- L nutrition and bad disposition When a child is undernourished I from rom birth when he lacks those hose well well- 1 known cnown safeguards against rickets which we give baby in the form o of f cod liver oil or any of ii its substitutes substitute s during the first growing years then the a we may rightly expect that thal he ma may y suffer some drastic and noti noticeable e upheavals at teething time The teeth are a min minor r aggravation only Thereal The real cause of ot his behavior is due to a deprivation of ot mineral supplies in his food and perhaps an accompanying lack o of vitamin D which helps him make the best use we of ot them Our leaflet on What to Do for Difficult Dif Dif Dif- Teething may mat ma be had for or a self-addressed self cent 3 3 stamped envelope envelope envelope ope sent to Myrtle Meyer Eldred in care of the Your Baby and Mine department of this newspaper But dont don't look forward to trouble at teething time Feed the prospective tive mother properly Feed th baby properly after birth F Furnish the baby jaby an insurance against rickets Then he wont won't have convulsions at teething time or or any other indications indica indica- ions of undernourishment and instability of the nervous system |