Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-01-31 | Page 18 | Baby Feeding Truths Given by Fishbein

Baby Feeding ing Truths Given By Fishbein By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical l Association and of the tho Health Magazine l The Tho chief chiet food of ot the baby is of ot course course the n milk which it gets gets' from its mother Nursing mothers therefore must watch vatch their own dl diets ts carefully There are some somo ways In which the tho mother can improve her baby's diet Likewise there are arc some foods which she must shun to protect protect protect pro pro- the little one However the possibility of ot Influencing Influencing influencing the quantity or quality of ot the mothers mother's milk by manipulating her diet is exceedingly small For example though there was little food available and hardly any Variety variety variety va va- during the siege of Paris and during the blockade of ot the central powers in th the World War war suckling babes babes- suffered little If It any harm Some people hold that nursing mothers should avoid salads cabbages cab cab- bages and raw fruit Actually there theres is s no evidence to Indicate that such foods affect the milk Of Ot course if It a mother is sensitive to any particular food tood she ought not to cat it since sines it is likely to cause skin eruptions pains o or di digestive digestive digestive di- di disturbances T For herself a woman needs at least east 1500 or 2000 cal calorIes rles a day Since in addition she must supply 00 calories for the the baby nursIng nurs nurs- nursIng Ing ng mother should eat about one- one half again as as' much food as she ate daily before she began nursing the baby Many people believe large quan- quan titles of ot beer eer malted m-alted milks or milk will help provide more milk for the baby Again evidence tends to disprove disprove disprove dis dis- dis- dis prove this thi theory If It a nursing mother drinks a aquart aquart aquart quart of milk each day in addition to o the meals she usually takes she will get all the food necessary for II herself and the baby Doctors believe the best flow of milk wil wilt result from froth regular nurs- nurs Irig ng of the baby which brings about a beneficial nervous stimulation Inthe in inthe inthe the body of the mother Physicians advise too that a very young young baby should be fed ted every four hours or five or six times Umes every every 24 2 hours After three or five weeks the baby should be five times a aday day A strong healthy baby can get au all ll the milk that is available of or or practically all of It it in hi 10 to 12 min mm- minutes utes of nursing It should not be e permitted to nurse nure for longer than 20 minutes at ata a time