Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-18 | Page 10 | Babies of One Year Should be Weaned from Milk

BABIES OF ONE YEAR SHOULD BE WEANED FROM MILK BOTT This department is constantly advising advising advising ad ad- mothers to wean babies of one year from bottle to cup feeding And Arid this whether they immediately drink the full amount of milk mUle they theretofore drank by bottle I am afraid this advice falls on blind eyes for Mrs C. C B. B S. S so perfectly describes exactly what happens when a mother fails to follow It My IMy year old boy is still taking all his his' milk by bottle He Ho drinks one quart a day that way I h have ve taken aken the bottle away several times b but t without it he ho would only drink one cupful a day He Doesn't Eat But he never cats eats ANYTHING People wonder vonder how he can look so well He weighs 29 and one half pounds My fri friends advised me mc to write to you My second baby was a pre pre- mature He had an nn Injection into his bis heart to keep him alive Now Now ho he ca cant can't t stand noise and is high strung Could this account for it He likes everything feeds himself but he doe doesn't nt like mashed vege vege- tables Ho weighed 4 pounds at birth what should he weigh now Docs Does affect a childs child's weight or do they pick pick- it up later Our leaflets leaflet Weaning We nl g the Child from Bottle to Cup and Increasing asIng as- as ing the Childs Child's Cons Consumption of Milk may be had for a self ad dressed and cent 3 stamped envelope envelope envelope ope sent to Myrtle Meyer Eldred of the Your Baby and Mine department department department depart depart- ment of this newspaper Of course the child wont won't eat for that is the almost universal result of f. f 81 allowing owin t the e child child to o continue mme milk by bottle It is a suckIng sucking suck suck- ing habit the child has like has like thumb or finger sucking and sucking and It If is this in which you are indulging him in the mistaken notion that it is milk that thai thatis' thatis thatis' thatis is' is is the issue Take the bottle away today Let him drink but one cupful of ol milk mille Give him meat eggs and and cottage cheese daily Cook his cereal in milk and serve milk over it Serve milk puddings such as junket custard cornstarch rice and bread Your baby vill suffer more from no solid food a and d all milk at this age than from the solid food and no milk Both diets are ex ex- Your premature child at 1 year probably weighs about 17 pounds The weight should be about normal norma when the baby Is 5 years old All Al babies dislike noise This baby is very bright and Id I'd let him eat t the vegetables if he likes them that way and note hi his reaction re re- re- re action Cut the vegetables fine and steam them to make them readily digestible You may have diet leaflets leaflets leaf leaf- lets for both children if you will wil send enough stamps and a large enough envelope to accommodate th them m. m Im I'm glad Iad y you u wrote