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Show -YQl)A,y-ANLVMINE Feeding Schedule Worked for One Mother By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRE0 Whatever a mother does thst Is successful, she is spt to consider con-sider a universally successful method of acting. - One can only become humble about the worth of Ideas when one desls with hundreds of children, chil-dren, not just one. Every mother ought to have at least three children chil-dren tt practice on before she can say that any method of child care is foolproof and always works. Mrs. W. W. P., having been very fortunate with her first baby, feela confident that her methods sre Ideal. "My boy Is now 11 weeks old," she writes, "and he la one of the happiest, best- natured babies I hsvs sver seen. He has been sleeping from 8 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. since his sixth week. "He Is fed when he Is hungry, not every four hours At first we hsd trouble with the formula. formu-la. It waa either too weak or too strong. At three weeks, as an experiment, we tried a bottle bot-tle of whole homogenised milk with a little sirup In It It worked fine and hs hss hsd whole milk ever since. I believe be-lieve this one of the reasons he started sleeping through the night so early. "We also suited solid foods st an early age. At six weeks hs ste vegetables, cereal, fruit and at seven weeks, meat At first he was very Irregular in his eating eat-ing habits. Before he started sleeping through the night he ate at all hours. Sometimes he wakened at one-thirty and sometimes at three or four o'clock. After he started sleeping sleep-ing from eleven at night until morning it wasn't long before he was doing that every night Then hs hsd his last bottle at 7 p.m. "Perhaps I hsvs been more fortunate than others but I believe be-lieve it was feeding him when hungry and giving him whole milk that has mads him so healthy and good-natured." It la now routine practice to feed a baby when hungry and let him make his own schedule. But. ordinarily to give a 3-weeks-old baby whole milk without with-out the sdvice of a pediatrician, would be a risky venture. Cow's milk Is designed for calves who grow at a much faster fast-er rate than humans So, It is more richly provided with cell-building cell-building protein. The addition of water and sugsr makes It more nearly like human milk. With your baby's fine digestion and your practice of giving him all the milk he wanted whenever he wanted It his progress should hsve been much the same with or without diluted milk. Our leaflet No. 22 "Formulas and Early Feedinga, may be had by sending a stamped, self-addressed self-addressed envelope with your request to Myrtle Meyer Eldred, in csre of Sslt Lake Telegram Home Service Bureau. |