Show 7 I BABY l. l WHEN FEEDING WITH r BOTTLE IS PROLONGED PROLONGED- Stimulate Movements Without With With- out Use of Constipation Medicines By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED Bring your problems to Mrs Eldred Eldred El- El dred in care ot of the Your Baby and Mine department of this newspaper Your questions about dIet general core care and management manage manage- ment ot of children will be answered answered an- an promptly it if you will enclose en en- close a s e elf I addressed f-addressed cent 3 stamped envelope with your letter er I use of bottles Is one of the thc foremost causes ot of loss of appetite appe- appe tite When it is someone's else baby the mother finds this information rca rea but when her own b boby dis- dis plays the Inevitable symptoms she he resurrects all the frayed fraed excuses for continuing bottles and Is convinced that they are valid ones My baby is 13 months old says this mother My greatest probe lem Is feeding She does not want her ner f food od unless I coax and amuse her all the time she Is eating In the daytime daytime day day- time she gets cereal or banana twice junket junkel puddIng or custard varIous kInds of vegetables orange juice and sieved prunes She weighed seven and one half pounds at birth and now weighs weighs' 20 pounds and five lve ounces She drinks orange juIce from a glass but if sh had to drink milk that way she would take none It is a battle to get her to take more then than three o ounces from a bottle She is very constipated and has hasto to have medIcine every night She has six teeth and shuffles along the floor but does not creep or attempt from 11 a a. a m. m to po rn m. but has no other sleep in daytime She goes to tobed bed at p. p m. m and has hasa a bottle between 6 and 7 In ing and between Suppose you ou stop worrying is underweight Convince yourself that if rightly fed she wont won't ne need d constipation medicines which do not help the constipation but simply imply stimulate a movement At 7 a. a m. m give her the first meal consisting ot of cereal cooked in milk or sIeved banana with milk over it stewed fruit it if she wants it end and any milk she will willingly take by c cap p. p At 1130 give her a glass of orange ozane juice and put her to bed Zor r her nap I Between 12 and 1230 offer her egg scraped meat or chicken two green vegetables bread and butter and z a I milk pudding made with rice cornstarch cornstarch corn corn- starch sago tapioca or cornmeal Ot- Ot fer milk by cup Between and ond 6 she may have cooked cereal or banana served with milk and a d dish h of stewed slewed fruit such as prunes pears peaches peache or apples Ot Offer er milk again but do not force it With meals this far apart there Is some chance for the child to develop an appetite whIch at present Is by your habit of serving bottles between meals You will find my lea leaflet net Feeding from 12 to 18 Months helpful in revising her diet Send a self addressed ed 3 3 envelope with your request |