| Show r j SS f S'S S Your Baby Overfed Baby Is Unhappy About Life Too By MYRTLE MEYER 1 ELDRED Our free leaflet The Nursing Mother may be obtained by those mothers who are unsure of their ability to be successful nurses as well as those whose babies are are being overfed Send your request for the leaflet with witha a self-addressed self t three cent th h r e c e-c e en n t stamped envelope to to- to Mrs Eldred of the your baby aby and mine department department department de de- de- de in care of The Salt Lake Telegram We ought to recognize that a baby will be as uncomfortable when overfed as when denied enough food to o satisfy his appetite In Itt some c cases ses the baby will wil act pretty much the same But the baby's gain in weight will indicate the vast difference between one who is getting more food than he needs and one who is being starved Th The overfed one will gain slowly or remain stationary in weight Here are two rather typical overfed over overfed overfed over over- fed babies and yet in each case the mother moth x said she thought her baby was hungry One mother says her seven weeks old baby has habitual colic She is apparently doing well and gains from to one pound a week I have tried to remedy this by dieting dieting dieting diet diet- ing myself and I eat hardly any sugar or starch But still I can see see no results This baby is gaining about twice what the normal baby gains in a week The mother does not say I when the baby is nursed but one m may y suspect that that it it is too often or for too long a nursing period The baby should be fed but once every four hours and allowed to stop nursing as a's as soon as his his appetite appe- appe tite lite se ms satisfied even ven if this thisbe thisbe thisbe be in but five to ten minutes He should not be wakened for a I n nt Feeding but allowed ci allowe-ci- to sl sleep ep until util iii he wakens of his own accord The probability is is' that the habitual colic will vanish when his stomach is not SQ so consistently overloaded The second baby is three months old weighed 8 S pounds at birth and now weighs fifteen and one He always cries as if hungry and he vomits persistently Should I start giving him a bottle and if so how much milk should he get This baby should also be put on the he four hour four hour schedule instead of the he three hour one on n which he is isnow isnow now being fed He Me has gained 7 pounds instead of the more usual five ive live pounds in three months It Its is s probably not hunger but just justain pain ain and discomfort which causes him lim to cry This pain is is' eased by bya a feeding but shortly ly after it is wo worse se again While a baby does not gain weight ex exactly in accordance with the he w weight l ht chart if the gain is higher than average and the baby is s showing discomfort between meals meal one may safely ly decide that It t isn't hun hunger er that is troubling him but This This' can be dealt with not by diet or a change to o bottles or by more food but by fewer ewer feedings per da day and perhaps perl per per- l haps less time at at atthe the the breast |
