Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-08-27 | Page 4 | Your Baby

1 Your our Baby Over Over Handling li I Bad fo for Bat By MYRTLE lEYER ELDRED The amazing thing bout about the premature premature premature pre- pre mature baby is that despite its miniature size and apparent weakness weakness weakness weak weak- ness so often it if lives Jives and thrives y This is due primarily to the vitality with which the child is endowed plus the good and sensible care to which it is exp exposed The cannot be treated as is the child born with all the Vigor rigor of its expected six to seven pounds of weIght It must not be handled handed over much for while a vigorous b baby by is stimulated by dis- dis Our leaflet on The First Six Weeks Weeks' information to toI I help help- the mother the first six the normal or prema- prema tur baby's life It may be had sending a cent 3 stamped self self- r addressed envelop with your letter let- let it ter r to Mrs Eldred of the your 1 Ii J b baby biby by and mine department in care of The Salt Lake Telegram creet t handling the premature is sapped capped of its needed strength These frail babies must be kept very warm for their tiny body surfaces lost heat rapidly and colds cods and pneumonia may result from even limited exposure to chilling The premature cannot be fed as asIs asIs asIs Is the full term child often there is not the strength to nurse Fortunate Fortunate Fortunate For For- though is the child who can have the benefits of breast milk mille even if this must be pumped am and poured into it its listless mouth by bottle Artificial feedings must be most cautiously chosen and admin admin- Digestive Upsets can so easily prove fata fatal When the baby has grown to the full fun stature of the new born it may be treated as if new born even though it may be several months old It is a mistake to compare a premature with infants of its own age for the mother would then be bei i discounting its The Theo o S 'S baby has bas a digestion and developS development development develop develop- S ment that is in accord with its real age not the number of months it it has been in the world To this end it should be fed and cared fo for foras foras as if it were the age it would b be had it been born when expected It may take five years for a premature premature pre pre- mature nature baby to hurdle hurde the differS differences differences differences differ differ- S both mental and physical j which separate it from the full ful fullS S 5 term child But quite often a strong infant may show no evidences evidences evi evi- dences of its after th the first or second year The smaller smalle the bab baby at birth th the the- longer it wilbe will wil willbe willbe be before it can meet the competition lion Uon of the child