Show PROCESS OF WEANING OF BREAST FED BABY SHOULD BE GRADUAL Weaning should be a gradual ecu cess It is disturbing pro to ti the thild d digestion when a new food tood l Is fat Int abruptly Baby Is given v table cereal orange orance juice cod liver oil all and egg yolk in amounts and no more for tor v I enough to discover his reaction to 14 them The amount is 15 only th thea j. j creased gradually to to the point m adequate 1 When weaning time domes comes I a weak solution of milk water and sugar s tried and increased gradually I Ithe the week as baby's tolerance for lf n creases t t. t The first bottle feeding Ii fJ beit J given at some hour when baby i is not lot used to going to sleep An affronted baby who is offered a new food by bottle instead of ot the more Iam nursing is in no mood to go to sleep deep I afterward rd At 2 p. p m. m Is In most cases a good oo time to offer the new f feeding ding For Tor g the old month baby about to b x weaned the bottle may contain four tour v ounces o of boiled milk four our of wOlter water and one level tablespoon of sugar The old month baby have may sl six ounces of milk two of water and andone one tablespoon o of sugar Daily during th the following we week k this formula may b be t. t strengthened by adding one teaspoon of ot milk to th the content content- of the bottle and decreasing the water by the same I amount Six teaspoons of at milk are i- i tw two thirds thirds of an ounce so that j jat at the end of the first week the formula formula formula for for- fori i mula which was four ounes of milk to four of or water will be about five of milk and three o of water vater The larger formula will be seven of or milk to one one of water by the end of the first I. I w week k A second bottle of milk may nobe now no be offered at any anyone one of ot the remainIng remaining remain remain- In Ing nursing periods It should contain the same proportion of milk and water as the first bottle 5 3 or 7 1 Definite instructions which make this clearer are contained in our leaflet leaf leaf- let How to Wean the Breast Fed Baby which may be had for or a self self- addressed 3 cent envelop envelope sent to Myrtle Meyer Eldred in care o of Your Bab Baby and Mine department of this newspaper At the end of the second week three bottles will be prepared and at four tour weeks the last nursing is eliminated Thus in four weeks bab baby has been Introduced Introduced In- In to the new food rood that shall permanently replace mothers mother's milk but it has been done In such leisurely fashion shon as will not disturb his digestion diges- diges II 1 tion hon f t |