Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-10-08 | Page 14 | Care in Preparing Baby's Formula is Urged by Expert

CARE AR IN IN PREPARING PR I BABY'S FORMULA I I URGED U R G E D BY BYE X Bring your problems problem about diet diet- general core care and management management manage manage- ment of ot children to Myrtle Meyer Myer Eldrod Eldred Your questions will be answered promptly if you will send sand a A. self addressed cent 3 stamped envelope envelop ith your letter Jetter to Mrs Mr Eldred of the Your Baby and Mine department of ot this newspaper B By MYRTLE l MEYER Z ELDRED The amount of milk used in fn a formula should be figured for a full hour 24 day Usually the formula Is mixed in the morning before betor the 10 a. a m. m feeding and is then used until the next morning The last bottle will be given at 6 a. a in m. m The mother who prepares a certain certain cei tam tain proportion of milk water and sugar twice during a day Is inadvertently inadvertently doubling the Ute amount probably probably ably Intended for a full day since Since formulas are worked out according to the baby's weight and age and bOd body needs such luch a mistake is certain tam tain to lead to overfeeding overt ceding Mrs T. T J. J N N. considers the baby's bilby's finger s sucking after meals a symptom tom torn of ot hunger In view of her program program program pro pro- gram of feeding this Is fJ far tar fetched It might more reasonably be due to discomfort My liMy baby girl Is two months old she writes At three weeks she had a bad attack of ot diarrhea and I had to send lend her back to the hos boa pital Now she Is all right and weighs 10 2 1 pounds I am feeding her the dairy made buttermilk She gets one pint of this with three ounces of water and furs fuls of ot corn syrup I I 1 was told to give her three and one one half half ounces every three hours but she did not hot seem satisfied with this so I am giving her her- six ounces every three hours Sometimes Sometimes' at 7 In the morning she is not satisfied with six ounces so I ive her eight ounces If I do not she sucks her fingers still sun hungry Her hours for feeding are arc 7 4 and 7 and then another feeding at 10 at night after which she sleeps until 7 7 I feel feol that she is being overfed Would she be better satisfied with a feeding of cereal The baby does not need to be fed but five times daily dally 7 3 and 7 and once o-nc at night It is plain you are preparing g the above formula twice which gives 32 ounces of milk six ounces of water and tablespoonfuls of corn syrup a formula that would be he about right fora tora child of 15 pounds or OVO ove over Buttermilk is easy to digest which accounts probably for the lack of f digestive ive troubles I tig strong form formula la Try Pry 20 l n buttermilk one ounce of cor and enough boiled water to nuit 56 6 ounce fee feedings dings and fe feed d tit hours hours' suggested above Cod lIv liver r oil cU and orange lul juie t rl likewise In order and the fesi the baby's bobys daily dally needs as' as are given In my leaflet Fe From Two to Nine Months r a v l the formulas for buttermilk In In ti leaflet Lactic Acid Feedings Bot may be had for a self addressed cent stamped envelope sent to tie tle Meyer Eldred of at the Yo Your and Mine department of af newspaper to