Show Every Day a Feed Baby a Three Meals By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED Our free leaflet Feeding From Two to Nine Months Is available available available avail avail- able to mothers free on request Simply write to me in care of The Salt Lake Telegram enclosing ing with your request for the leaflet a three cent stamped self seIt addressed envelope for prompt mailing The most amazing thing to older parents is the way in which modern babies are fed They They cannot believe it possible that babies of four or five months get only three meals a day and they cannot understand how so small a baby can digest so many varieties of food Yet all of this is true Given Givena a fine healthy baby with a di digestion digestion di- di which reacts reacts' norm normally lIy to new foods three meals a day at these ages are quite to be ex ex- In fact if the mother persists in giving four meals she is apt to notice e that baby is most indifferent to either his 10 a a a. m. m or 2 p. p m. m bottle and hardly can be forced to take all of it Also she may notice that he is quite apt to sleep now until 7 a a. a m. m instead of waking at 6 When these signs are noticed three meals instead of four are just what baby needs The breakfast which comes at 7 a. a m. m now instead of 6 consists of both cereal and milk instead of just milk alone Only one or two tablespoons of cereal are needed but these add materially to baby's nourishment In morning mid-morning or at the time he ordinarily would have a bottle bottle bottle bot bot- tle he is given only his orange juice and oil That will keep him satisfied until 11 a a. a m. m when he has his bath and right after that his big meal of the day At 4 to 5 months that meal would consist of a tablespoon or so of one of the tasting mild-tasting vegetables sieved in approved baby style and seasoned ever so delicately with salt Follow with the bottle Right after this meal hell he'll be glad to be stowed away for his long daily nap When he wakes up or even an hour after he wakens he may be in a mood for a short bottle bottle bottle bot bot- tle that is two to four ounces of formula Nothing more At hell he'll get a rubdown with oil or a sponge bath during hot weather and then two tablespoons tablespoons tablespoons table table- spoons or so of custard made with egg milk and a bit of sugar and his full bottle of formula Babies fed on this schedule and these average amounts of food go to sleep about p. p m. m and sleep until nearly seven in the morning And how they do grow growl |