Show REGULAR ACCURATE 1 I CHECK ON INFANTS INFANT'S I i iW W WEIGHT EI G H T IMPORTANT E By MYRTLE MEYER EYER ELDRED Bring your problems about gen ren eral cral care and ma management gement to Myrtic Myr Myr- I Itie tic tie Meyer Eldred Your questions question will be answered promptly if It you will send a self addressed cent 3 stamped envelope with your letter to Mrs Eldred in care of the Your Baby and Mine tUne department o a of this newspaper Weighing the baby weekly should be considered an essential part of his hii good care This weekly ceremony should hould be done at home at the same hour each week and with baby entirely en en- lirely unclothed The ideal scales ar arthe are lre the large balance type with a cle to lo hold bab baby As these are expensive ex cx- pensive e the mother may have have to to make milk use of the grocers grocer's scales once onee we weekly kly or the platform type on which ih sh h can weigh both baby and bathtub These are all perfectly simple ways waY of ot getting etting some accurate idea of at what hat the baby is gaining each week weck Our leaflet Weight and Height Chart i ii J available for a cent 3 stamped self sell addressed envelope sent to Myrtle Meyer Eldred in n care of the Your Baby and Mine department of ot this newspaper When the bab baby is weighed outside the home he should be dressed each week in the same garments In Jn which he was weighed the week be be- fore There Is no substitute knowledge which carries so much significance as this knowledge of baby's weight It Is possible to misuse it and become so so- slavish a follower of ot a weight chart as to make ones one's life liCe miserable because be be- cause baby does docs not measure up to it Ht It is possible also to be too satisfied when baby gains ains enormously in weight and consider it unnecessary to to check up on how baby's diet differs from standard diets for or his age and weight Everything g can be misused and Ua as U asa asa a people we weare are inclined to put too much faith in the charts charl made up of or averages and not enough in our own good sense and recognition that aUis all aU allis allis is well But despite these possible misuses misuses' of ot the weight height charts there is no other way by which one can so accurately determine a baby's I ross ress N The baby may look well to our inexperienced inexperienced in in- experienced eyes es but we are in no position to say that he is as well yell as ashe ashe he might be unless we also know how he is gaining in weight and how that gain compares with the average He may be as fat as a little pudding and obviously neither happy nor comfortable com corn and it is only by noting discrepancies in what he gains and what he might be expected to gain that we arrive at some ome recognition of ot what may be wron wrong Diets are arc based on a childs child's age and weight and is as important as the other in determining how much food he needs In fact one is helpless helpless help help- less always to make any intelligent diagnosis of why a child is unhappy sleepless constipated crying or whatnot what not without having likewise some orne accurate information on about what he weighed at birth and how much he gains each week the first six months and each month thereafter |