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Show Wean Infant Before Taking On Long Trip By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED The question of whether to wean the baby before hot weather pops up seasonally. Since we are creeping creep-ing an toward the warmer ssason, It is well to examine it now in order to forestall any pernicious and harmful advice. In general it may be said that If the baby's ninth month arrives in September, or later. It may be very wise to endeavor to nurse the baby through the summer. But if the baby would be nine months of sge in Jury or August then by all means wean the baby before the hot weather begins. Ths baby csn suffer as much from faulty nutrition when nursed aa from artificial feeding. The great difficulty Is that ones ths hot weather Is upon us the mother is confused as to vfhether the child's cries and whlnee ars dus to faulty feeding or to the weather. There are always far too many amateur prophets who can find an excuse for any kind of behavior on the score of "his teeth," or the "heat," or almost everything but the resl enemy, which is the child's faulty fseding. The mother of a T-month-old baby about to embark on a long ocean voyage and remain In a foreign country for the summer is bewildered bewil-dered by the conflicting advice shs is getting. She is uncertain whether it would be wiser to continue nursing tha baby or to wean before the beginning of the voyage. My advice Is to ween the baby now. Then the baby will not be upset If the mother should be seasick. sea-sick. Ths baby will not be treated for ailments attributed to the voyage voy-age when nick of sufficient nourishment nourish-ment would more easily account for sleeplessness or daytime fretfumess. Canned milks of stable quality, canned sisvsd vegetables and fruits and boxed, precooked cereals along with ths fresh fruits available on board will make dlst that will be substantially the same from start to finish of tha Journey. Water should be boiled. Our leaflet on Traveling With Baby" offers other information to the parent about to embark on a trip on land or sea. A self-addressed. S-cent stamped envelope is asked with all leaflets mailed to the Your Beby and Mine department of The Salt Lake Telegram. ' |