Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-05-13 | Page 6 | Ideas of Grandma on Weaning Wrong, Says Baby Expert

IDEAS OF GRANDMA 1 f fON 1 ON WEANING WRONG WRON SAYS BABY EXPERT 1 II I By MYRTLE MEYER METER ELDRED v Bring Brine your problems about aboul diet dk 11 general care and mam management of I I children to M Myrtle l Meyer Meer Eldred Your questions will be a answered promptly If you will send a self nU addressed cent 3 stamped with your letter to Mrs lUn Eldred h In care ure of the Your Baby and M Une department of this newspaper It is always d disheartening to In nJ J that more grandmothers do not read this column lumn It would be so mu much more satisfying to a nother mother were were were-gb she able to meet her married children on their own level of knowledge The smart mart grandmother wants to be u an adviser to her children and she co could be were she willing to discard iome lonie I of ot her old fashioned ideas and k keep p t abreast or even a few steps ah ahead ahead- 4 of them Here is another young mother who is being misdirected by her bel mother She writes f. f I r have a month old son ron whom I would like to have weaned by June I think it would be bet best to wean before belore hot weather but J my says mother that during teething teething teeth teeth- ing tag the baby will often take noth noth- I If ing but breast feedings How I m many times Ive I've heard that one Will you tell teJI me what Is the rig right t thing to do My baby t. t weighs over o 13 18 pounds stands up by chairs eats everything offered I and can drink rather well ell from rom a J cup He gets gels three breast ft feed Ings fogs and the the rest rest milk Here is the way he is fed G 6 i 1 I a. a m m. breast feeding 8 a. a m m. m 11 with the family at al which I r F he cats eats cereal bath followed I by orange or prune juice Dinner at noon of strained vegetables soup and egg p. p m. m breast I feeding p. p m m. lereal 8 p. p m. m in breast feeding ant and to bed for the night He sleeps all nIl night and I seems to get plenty to eat cat t The right ight thing always is to feed your Kiby so well fron birth to the I time teeth appear that there will b be no no disturbance due to teething The The II kind of or teething times flUmes your mother remembers were those suffered by f babies whose mothers were taking the advice your mother is giving you Your baby could not be nursed all summer and the wise a and d sensible procedure is to wean now before hot weather arrives r As for losing his appetite i teething if and when the baby d does then a day or so of fasting is is' the treatment he needs 3 At present your Jour baby i is getting althe all all' the right foods at the wrong time time- The way you feed now baby is getting get get- ting six Instead of four feedings Y You may have the la leaflet let called Feeding from 9 to 12 Months and Weaning the Breast Fed Baby for tor a cent 3 stamped self addressed envelope sent sent- to Myrtle Meyer Eldred care of the Your Baby and Mine department of th 3 Feed rc regularly and exactly aTa iti 7 7 11 3 and 7 and let this be the feeding ceding The cereal should be gIven along with the 11 a m. m feeding ard and egg yolk olk and vegetables with the 3 I p. p m. m one Orange juice may b be given at the he bath times I 1