Show 4 Your Baby's Healt By Bv DR MORRIS FISHBEIN 4 Editor Journal of the American Medical A Association Rod and of at j the Health Magazine l Ono Ope of tho essential factors In Involved Involved In- In in nursing a a. baby aby is to tosco see e that he is neither overfed nor underfed Of Ot the two tw however however how how- ever Over underfeeding la Is I the more I difficult to correct Ono One method is to stimulate the breasts by means of a 8 pump Another is to improve tho the mothers mother's mothers mother's mothers mother's moth moth- ers er's physical condition In that event also it may be advisable for the mother to be relieved of ot other her childs child's care except for feeding feed feed- ing lag Tho The child may bo be given some supplementary food tood Nursing however should be attempted as as' as asto to give the tho breasts tho the stimulation that comes from the suckling of ot the tho baby A baby that is getting too much milk will vomit or regurgitate some o of ot the food Sometimes ho he will vill have havo colic Usua Usually ly however the overabundance overabundance over over- abundance o of milk lessens after the f first f few w days If It the milk remains remaIns' in over overabundant amounts I the milk that the tha baby takes may be bG reduced b by shortening the time of ot nursing The excess supply sup sup- ply may be su suitably disposed of In a 8 few v cases the baby may eem to be overfed due to the fact tact that there Is too much fat tat fatIn fatin in the tho milk In this case case the tho doctor may direct the addition of water to the tho diet before nursing There are however few cases In which breast milk Is unsuitable unsuitable unsuitable able for lor digestion I If a 8 mother has peen een e eating Ung garlic the milk mUk may have a bad taste It is also possible that a 8 bad taste may come to the milk from drug sub sub- stances There are various ways of finding finding find find- ing out how much milk a baby is getting Ho may be weighed before beCore and after feeding This should be be bedone done at each nursing until the tho mother knows how much milk the baby is getting regularly from the tho breasts If It the mother is unable to weigh the baby regularly she he may tell something from the Way in which the child nurses I If It a baby is very hungry he he will nurse hungrily hungrily hungrily hun hun- and with considerable puUing pulling pulling pull ing power If It there is plenty milk the baby will seldom nurse more than 5 or 6 6 minutes If however tho the milk supply is insufficient he will vilI nurse for lor a half hour or more mor marc and when he stops he does so be because beauze ause he is exhausted exhausted ex ex- hausted rather than because he has had enough milk J If a baby Is getting no milk at atall atall all nIl or small exceedingly amounts he will he-will will try fo o nurse vigorously for fora a few minutes and then stop |