Show i r. BABIES CAN SLEEP t Jj THROUGH N NIGHT AT ii AGE AGE EI EIGHT HT WEEKS A J. J t. t Bring ring your problems about bout diet general care and management of children to Myrtle Meyer Eldred Your our questions will be answered promptly 1 If IL you will send s a self self- cent 3 at stamped envelope with th your Jour letter to Mn Mrs Eldred In care of the Your four our Baby end and nd department of f this newspaper I The Th hour four-hour sched schedule le has for so sc c i long g been bee the acc accepted d J one one that i there is no no longer any doubt of It Its Iti efficacy and desirability It Is almost aleI al ale I Jn most st a 8 sh shock ck to me to find mothers mother feeding on th-e th the three hour schedule so 80 o out of date has hu it be- be be be- come The Th baby's daytime hours ar are inflexible inflexible in- in flexible and nd regular The usual h hours bout urs chosen chozen are arc 6 10 as most t hospitals start babies bable off oft on this routine But any hour four-hour interval inter inter- val al al is usable sable and this can can conform to t the e baby's household Th The night time feeding hours are Irregular After baby Is fed at 6 C p. p m. m mr he is allowed d to sleep until he wale wakens ens of his own accord Some Some- Sometimes Sometimes times this may be at 10 p. p m. m a again n It may b be at 1 11 or 12 and ho he need be e fed only when ho awakens for forit forit it it The d daytime policy is to waken the baby on the Uie hours at which he hould be fed so as to habituate him to those hou hours houri Allowing the baby to choose his own awn night time feeding hours encourages en- en s his Jils sleeping through the 1 night without a feeding In the thel fortunate group of babies with whose habits habit I t am most familiar almost without exception this this' polIcy polIcy policy pol pol- icy the baby sleeping from flix to six without waking for a feeding by the time he Is 8 or 9 weeks old If one one would see these happy husky placid babies one would know th that t fo four r fee feedings ings a day are quite sufficient to keep the baby gaining steadily and also to furnish him a 0 patient and nd agreeable mother who profits as much by uninterrupted ed d sleep as ns does her baby haby The secret of ot a baby's contentment contentment content content- ment lies less in tho the number of his feedings than in the content of his diet when he is fed Because we know that a baby can go four fourS S hours without difficulty we also should recognize that when he cannot it Isn't because the int interval is too long but because his diet is inadequate The nursing n mother mother- should hould use both breasts breast at each cach feeding and if baby is hungry before beCore the hour four-hour interval is up the tho chances are that thata a complementary feeding would adjust adjust ad- ad just th the difficulty Our leaflet How to Figure Complementary Formulas may bo ho had for a self self- addressed and cent 3 stamped envelope envelope enve enve- lope sent to Myrtle Meyer Eldred of 1 t the e Your Baby and Mine department depart depart- ment of this newspaper k 4 When a baby can go four hours in daytime without crying to be fed When he can go all night without a a drop of ot milk and despite this make adequate te weekly gains the mother should have no qualms ab about the excellence and the suffIciency suf- suf of the baby's diet She I j jut just t knows it must be good |