Show C 0 YOUR BABY I II I AND MINE I II I By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED I IS S SENSIBLE YEAR OLD BABY REFUSES HER BOTTLE hs C. C V. V Please give gi me some advice on the following My baby is a year Jear old and weighs twenty one pounds I 1 still puta food with witIa her milk formula and have hae tried it without but it doesn't seem to agree c wit She wont won't drink more than four oun es ehy e four hours At no noOn n I gIve her ma h d potatoes and peas carrots or 01 spinach Otherwise she has nothing but her bottle She loves eat but doesn't like th the bottle She does have orange JUIce and cod od liver oil She has no teeth She walks by bJ holdIng holding hold hold- ing Into things ANSWER here is a great big husky girl of good weight and nd you ou ate ano trying to keep her on a bottle formula at one year Jear She is a sensible baby when she refuses it She should be havIng hay hay- log Ing plain milk now entirely by cup and three meals a day and If she wont won't take talea a quart ot of milk by cup cUI then give only awo or three cups of milk daily and and incorporate the rest ot of the milk mille In her food One quart ot of a da day is all a child needs nee mothers give this much to drink and then 11 use milk mille in lots of ways and wonder why the child has no enthusiasm for his milk There seems to bo bc a pretty general agreement among feed feeding ing experts these days that the quart ot of mill milk rule can be overdone Many chIldren children chIl- chIl dren will not eat enough solid foods foods- If they are d to fo drink a a. quart of milk either by bottle or cup In that caSe the thing to lo do is to offer the solid food and give less les milk to drink if possible use more milk in the diet In your case the child should have in the mornIn mornIng morn morn- In Ing and the four foul ounces or of plain milk that she will accept Vegetables Vegetables bles and perhaps egg or some scraped meat arid Zwei ack at noon and again her four ounces or of milk At C 6 or 6 60 0 at night cereal and mill milk again a The orange olange juice can be given with breakfast or men S h 11 11 S olIU HU Lilt VOL uv r Ull OU vile vile- half haIr hour or so after any meal Three small doses doses' a. a day are better than one large dose and not so upsetting upsetting up- up setting to the child You are fortunate fortunat that the baby is willing to eat and likes to ea eat t. t Dont Don't make the mistake e of oC holding onto that bottle thinking It has lIas some magic property to prevent ill ill- nOUrishment After nab baby Is one year old bottle days are past and it itI I essential that other foo foods ls be a ad- ad t to the milk dIet dieb Tomorrow Help the Children understand unde teachers teacher's trials The proper diet dict for the old baby is Included in th the leaf leaf- Ie he Weaning and Feeding from 6 Weeks to fT fj Years The only for the the the- leaflet is a self self- er enclosed en en- closed ith the request addressed addressed ad- ad dressed to Myrtle Meyer Ie er Eldred in care of the Your Baby aby and ue of oC this r. r All requests rc e prompt at- at |