Show Diet Health bl lu Hunt ANSWERS TO MOTHERS God could not be everywhere therefore He made m Jewish Proverb WEANING Last week I gave directions for weaning the ba bab This week will VilI take up another Ide o of the que que tion The ply accurate Way In which It Itcan itcan can be how much milk the baby gets geis is is- isto to weigh him before fter andt nursing It If the baby doesn't get get epou h and andis andis is undernourished and the measures to increase th milk mUk in are not successful then theba b should have some other f d besides the mo mothers mother's hers her's milk He should shoud 9 V be entirely weaned The mother must no veart tire the baby before Its normal tIme nine to except lowing conditions First tuberculosis losis or inS insanity or r epilepsy in the mother in which case the child might be injured second pregnancy preg- preg nancy It isn isn't t that pregnancy makes the milk poisonous for the bab baby It simply weakens wakens the ther and In time lessens the mille and naturally it Is a drain on the mother to be nou nourishing three herself unborn ba babe e and the nursing b baby b at the same time When the moth mothr r discovers she is PIg preg nant she sie should gradually not suddenly wean wean- the bab baby third in some eases cases of chronic in the mother the weaning In this ease case depends upon the severity of her disease e and tile general condition of the baby There is no that sometimes nursing will weaken the with a a. a chronic disease It is usually safe for the baby to be be pursed even though th mother the is sl suffering from measles or s infeCtious diseases fox for young babies are largely immune to infections in- in they Inherit this Immunity After Atter the baby Is 6 months old however the Immunity Is is much less and in this ease case It Is wiser to keep It away from the mother unless unless' it had been exposed to the disease e before the nature of It had been determined and so might have It In Case ase the bab baby is taken away away from the mother It Is best after she to have her nurse It again Meanwhile Mean while the breast milk can be expressed expressed ex ex- pressed by the manual expression n nand and fed to the baby b by the bottle We have ren an article on Diet Dur- Dur ing Pregnancy nd Nursing which I can be obtained by sending a 1 self self- el s 's 4 V a 2 J I I addressed stamped envelope with request CANDY ANDY FOR BABIES Miss H. H is' is concerned because her neighbor j js feeding her months 3 old baby milk chocolate candy She told the mother she didn't think It was right but the mother responded respond respond- ed that it would would- not hurt the baby V While It Is rue that that babIes babIes' stomachs can lie be accustomed to most any food tood i it ibIs is given In tiny enough amounts and increased very ver grad gradually ally it l' l not wise wis to Ciot Jo milk orange juice fruit juices up tip to the Um tint the they are 5 to G 6 old arid add even tl then n chocolate or an any other kind of candy would not be considered I for the rca rea- 1 Babl Babies soon develop a craving cray cray- lag ing for sweets and will lose the desire desire- for tIne foods they need and often will s them i if such sweets are given j I S 'S It isn't Wise cise tp begin to 0 give I babies cari y they are 2 or I 3 then it x to give nat u h as hopped raIS figs dates honey etc Nut candles candies ar partIcularlY to tobe tobe be warn warned d again tr i r dren wIno who do not know flow bow to chew tor for the candy m l leaving the nuts which to be be sw l Plowed lowed the wrong wrong wa way ald g t Int into the lar n or even Into the lungs 1 hap happens ens V We Ve have list of b books books' on In Send ad envelope with rc- rc n It quest 4 V Tomorrow Answers to Correspondents Corre Corre- V 27 by V tIne the George Matth ms Matth m Service |