Show MOTHER MUST LEARN TO KNOW SYMPTOMS I OF UNDERFED BABY Bring your our problems about diet did general care t and management of children to Myrtle l Meyer leer Eldred You Your questions will be answered answered promptly if Ir you yon will send a 3 self self- addressed stamped cent envelope with your letter to Mrs Eldred in care of the Your Baby and Mine department of ot this newspaper By y MYRTLE 1 MEYER l ELDRED The appearance of l the stools has hasa a significance for far th the trained observer er The stool of ot the fed breast well nourished baby has a characteristic color end and consistency but the addition addition addi addi- tion of ot any solid food oo even of cows cow's milk is h certain to make a change in both hoth of these attributes Mothers most often orten misread these changes and the they become a matter for lor unnecessary worry worry worry wor wor- I ry and concern We have a a leaflet Types 8 o of Stools and Symptoms They May Indicate which was written to allay th the mothers mother's mothers mother's mothers mother's moth moth- ers er's anxiety about some normal changes in the appearance of ot the stool It may be hc had for lor self ad dr dressed cent 3 envelope sent to Myrtle Meyer Eldred care of ot the thc Your Baby Daby and Mine department of ot this newspaper At the moment there is before me methe methe methe the letter of oC a mother whose baby is wo woefully ully underweight for lor his fils age The history has been the usual one of ot colic coUe for three months with no gain and a stool containing mucus At the moment the child whose diet Is 15 still far lar below the normal one for lor 7 months i. i Is still suffering from Crom a mucous stool which the mother believes believes believes be be- is Li indigestion and so EO Is depriving depriving depriving ing the child of ot food lood on that account If the baby were a fat poly roly-poly diet was obviously overloaded one might look upon this explanation as IS logical But when the baby has been deprived for months of the thc type of diet that would cause a normal gain in weight one one could expect nothIng noth nothing Ing but a mucous stool The bowel excretions ore are the result of oC the diet A starvation diet would result In mucus thu thus Indicating the lack of sufficient residue to r result ull in ina a normal formed movement It is possIble possible pos pus sible that the baby has some individual individual indi indi- vidual dietetic peculiarities which need to be altered so as to make the new foods offered of oC a type to be di di- But when the diet is so limited urn limo as IS to result In a 10 loss 5 of weight rather than even even a small gain ain it is s folly oIly to continue to starve the child in the interests interess of his digestion when obviously it is more food lood that he hc needs The mucous stool may be due toC to C causes lU es other than starvation but starvation starvation starvation star star- would be indicated by the thc lack tack of oC gain |