Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-01-28 | Page 4 | Why Baby Fails to Gain

Your Baby Why Baby Fails To Gain By MYRTLE MEYEB ELDRED There would seem to be a gsnsral tendency to find plausibls sxcusss for what otherwise would worry one. So often a mother writes, or saya to ms: "My baby hasn't gained very well lately, but I don't worry, aha is happy and active and amart and aha is Just small-boned, J think." Ths folly of such an excuse for failure to gain Is obvious. All kinds of batilss, large-boned and small-boned, small-boned, take on flesh at the ismt rata of speed. Naturally, smsll-bonsd smsll-bonsd babies may nsver attain the ultimata weight of large-boned ones, but they gain Just ths same. When ths baby dosa not gain It la because he is sick, or his food is not sufficient (or his, needs, or hs Is being dsnied slssp so that ha uses up his snsrglss, and burns up his food more rapidly, and stores less of It as (at At about 10 days of age moat babies have gained back their original origi-nal birth weight From then on. If the baby is wsll fed, hs gains steadily, week by week, up to the end of the firat year. He ahould be weighed on a balance scale (because (be-cause It alone msasurss ounces accurately) ac-curately) once weekly at the aame hour and in the aame clothes, or lac If of thsm. Ths first six months th gain may be from (ive to eight ounces weekly- Aftsr the sixth month this large gain diminishes. Baby may gain four ounces only. Aftsr the first ysar a two ounce weekly gain er about one-half pound monthly la en adequate gain. But unless the baby la sick at which time a gain ahould not be expected or unless hs is gsttlng lsss food than hla age and prssant weight demand, he will gain, it not each week, at least each month, whether he is small or large boned. Free Leaflet Our (rss leaflet on "How the Child Dsvslons" may be had by sending a three-cent stampsd, sel(-addresssd envelop with your Isttsr to Mrs. Eldred of the your baby and mine department In care of The Salt Lake Telegram.