Show SYMPTOMS OF OVERFED BABY OFTEN SIMILAR TO THAT OF F UNDERFED 11 By MYRTLE l MEYER ELDRED The Intestinal activity of a breast breast- fed bab baby is not always an m accurate index to what may be wrong with him Constipation and diarrhea would seem to indicate their own remedies but they are faulty aul symptoms toms oms In fri themselves For instance constipated babies may have their systems overloaded with sugar and md yet babies deprived of enough sugar may be equally constipated con con- Babies who are Ire half starved ma may have lave loose and frequent stools as do babies who are arc overfed Mucous in the stools may be bo an evidence of indigestion from overfeeding overfeeding over over- feeding or of oC malnutrition It should hould be apparent that one has hasto I 1 Ito to look at all of baby's symptoms and scrutinize his whole general con conS I to know whether he is well or badly fed Mothers are not only confused by these contrad Tons ons in symptoms but they are too too prone to diagnose a baby's ailments by its looks Thus mucous in baby's stools always alwa's means to them a cold in the bowels the sort of diagnosis that Is certainly no aid to baby's recovery since their next step is usually to cut down the food If It mucous is present because of underfeeding this pol policy Ie is sure to aggravate the condition If II all mothers could have the aid of a doctor in fri dia diagnosing nosing baby's ail au mc these warnings would not be pertinent but too often babies have to depend on mothers for lor a diagnosis of ot their feeding ills The breast led baby because e he is getting Jetting the best food is often a victim of his mothers mothers mother's moth moth- ers er's ignorance He suffers from un un- un because his mother d doesn't nt recognize the general symptoms toms of or underfeeding The undernourished baby is first of all thinner than average and makes a lower weekly gain in weight He may be an exceptionally active baby the kind admiring parents call caU a because hes he's never still stilla a minute Such babies need lots of entertainment and are arc light sleepers j jor In n addition they may be constipated or they may have pave loose stools of the tho mucous variety This is is of course a general not sp specific ic picture of ot i ment meat It indicates only that in try ing ng to decide whether a baby is getting get get- ting ing too much or too little to e eat t the mother has to take into consid J everything relating to him not just his constipation or his apparent apparent ap ap- ap parent paren diarrhea We offer a leaflet on Symptom Symptoms of Under and which mothers may have for tor the usual 1 self addressed ed ti usua cent 3 stamp stamped stampe envelope sent to Myrtle Meyer Eldred Eldred El El- dred of the Your Baby and Mine i department of this newspaper From baby's earliest infancy it is is' is essential that mothers learn to look beyond the obvious in their hunt for far conditions that need correction I if |