Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-09 | Page 8 | Baby Does Not Need to be Prodded into Sitting up, Walking

I BABY DOES NOT NEEt 4 TO BE PRODDED INT INT SITTING UP U WALKIN or By n l MYRTLE TLE MEYER ELDRED Tho The desire of ol young mothers to hurry their children into an advanced advanced ad ad- stage of oC development is responsible re re- re- re for much mistaken prodding prodding prod prod- ding toward that estate Few Fow mothers are content with the activities in which a baby engages at it at the moment If It tho the child Is contented con con- tented to lie He quietly on the bed and play with its toys they are eager ager for the moment when he can sit up In n sitting liltIng up they cant can't wait until he 10 can creep if creeping for the first step if walking then for lor his first sentence This goes on all through life the mother anticipating lug ing and urging the child toward a astae stage stae that is as yet unfamiliar but which seems to her to mean progress progress progress ress and growth Most of this is so unnecessary The mother has It within her power to o set the stage for uninterrupted growth provide every day with energy spur the cells to the production of new growth furnish I tho the body with insurance against disease She Sho can put the child where every muscle has freedom to move and develop in a natural way vay The child lying on its back or 0 stomach may be a n dynamo of ot energy energy energy en en- ergy every waking waIting moment The timo to let him sit up is when haIs heIs he ha hes Is s straining to manage that position himself When lifted by eager cager hands he sits up straight as a n ruler and then slumps when he ho is ready to lie down This business of ot poking pillows around him so so th that at willy nilly rimy he has to to sit up though his easily fatigued back needs to be re relieved relieved relieved re- re of ot tho the strain is of no benefit whatever to the child Children sit up without support when their backs are capable of it And without without without with with- out support they collapse when their own strength is gone and then they should be put again into their former position and left there Our leaflet Development of Sitting Sitting Sitting Sit Sit- ting Standing and Walking suggests suggests sug sug- the n normal times at which the well child exhibits an ability C do these things It may beor be hi for or a self addressed and cel 3 k stamped envelope sent to M Myrt Meyer Eldred of ot the Your Tour M Mand and Mine department of t of-t t IB newspaper But mothers will n not t find tind It to remember that these a and abilities are nat The baby who is well fed and gt gi freedom of ot crib and floor Joor and p pU pen docs does not need to be prod into learning how to sit lit up S Suo sup stu up or walk but develops these then as evidence of his hb tr and growth