Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-02-17 | Page 6 | Your Bady and Mine

Your Baby and Mine Do you know what foods to Include in your childs child's diet Mrs Eldred has prepared diet leaflets for ages from 2 months to 12 years Specify the 3 age ae e of your child and a self addressed sed cent 3 stamped envelope with your request for a diet leaflet Write to Myrtle Meyer Eldred Your Baby and Mine department department depart depart- ment of this newspaper By Dy MYRTLE MEYER 1 ELDRED The childs child's posture results not only from rom good nourishment during infancy in in- fancy ancy and childhood but from good health habits Good posture is only secondarily a matter malter of exercises though hough later these ma may be necessary if the posture Is poor Most mothers leap immediately to the he conclusion that children with poor posture need mechanical appliances ances to force them to hold their backs jacks straight A child can be forced to o hold back his shoulders for endless end end- less ess hours but if his muscles are weak and toneless and the thc general nutrition poor the shoulders will slump lump the moment the apparatus is removed Nature furnishes us the support to a straight spine and we help nature when we wo furnish her the necessary material for making strong bones and springy muscles The baby's inability or reluctance to o sit up tip is 15 again a a matter of diet II If f he is Inclined to slump down or topple opple over when he sits up it isn't because he needs props to his back backor or r exercises or lacks the opportunity to o sit up Strong babies make their own opportunities and strain until red ed and perspiring in an effort to hold told up their heads beads turn on their stomachs or lift themselves to a sitting sitting sit sit- ting ing position Their muscles crave this his exercise when they are strong enough nough to support the body weight There are arc ways to encourage the child hild to have a straight spine over and nd above the consideration of diet One of them is to provide the child with a bed Babies BabiC or children children chil chil- dren who inherit the cribs of older children with mattresses already sunken unken and lumpy may well suffer sutter from rom poor posture because of enforced en en- forced sleeping on these crooked sur sur- faces aces Large pillows which elevate he the head and shoulders to an unnatural un tin- natural level are another menace to good posture The baby needs no pillow at all and even the child of 5 should hould have only th the flattest of pil- pil lows if he needs one at all Holding the baby constantly In the same same ame position on one hip or forcing him lim to sit up when he is not ready to o do so are practices which may result re- re suit sult In poor posture when the body's defenses are weakened by an inadequate inadequate quate diet In the interests of ot good posture then hen there must be constant and vigilant lant ant attention to the childs child's nutrition The exercises n need d be only the opportunity op op opportunity furnished a h healthy althy baby so that he may move about freely and vigorously In a level crib or bed and andon andon andon on the floor