Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-04-04 | Page 8 | Your Baby and Mine

Your Baby and Mine Dy By l MEYER ELDRED Bring your our problems to Mrs Edred in care of the Your Baby and ond Mine department of th this newspaper Your questions about diet general care and management manage manage- ment or of children will be an an- promptly it if you ou wilt will jn- jn close a self addressed ed cent 3 stamped envelope with your our lettel let letter tel ter The mist a young oung mother makes with her f first baby are invariably invariably bly mistakes in judgment The young oun mother develops judgment knowledge and experience but with I her first baby she is too fearful ol of making mistakes to avoid them Naturally the mother is upset when the child refuses to eat Those three or lour four or five meals are so vastly important that when bab baby fretfully pushes a bottle away or orwill orwill will have none of his carefully pre pared vegetables or 01 cereal the mother is in n the depths of oC despair She feels eelE that by hook or crook she must get that food lood into bab baby There are arc so man many reasons why baby refuses to eat that we w will not attempt to enumerate an all of them My lea leaflet net Physical and i. i cal Reasons for will be helpful to mothers deal dealing ng with chronic ness of mysterious mys mys- origin Your request for the leaflet should be accompanied by a self 3 cent 3 ent stamped n n. which is not chronic is another enother problem Babies who ue are about to cut a tooth are prone to suffer some trivial disturbances which affect their appetites They prefer b biting ting hard on a spoon a rubber rub rub- ber ring or some other hard object to partaking of their re bottles For a few lew days they tend to refuse some or ell all ot of the food offered them As a symptom of their temporary un comfortableness this should be reo r A coming cold wm vill momentarily stifle the baby baby's desire for food O d end end again this is a condition which hout be bc heeded Food stuffed into a baby who has tie no desire for lor It is food wasted It merely b becomes lD an Ir Irritant to a system which spurns it The one onset ot of any of the childish dis ses is very often orten heralded by ap end and a tend tendency ncy to to vomit The inexplicable and unusual type of Is a warning signal Keep baby quIet watch him give more water and less food and wait until nature displays more Ie- Ie curate signs of what may be wron wrong or else adjusts j itself end baby ag again ln grabs g for his bottle In no case is jt t advisable to disregard less ness and feel that mother knows best 00 and baby should be forced 1 to eat