Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-09-12 | Page 11 | Your Baby and Mine

Yom BA y n I It 1 I yM TLE ED Mrs Er will willbe be glad to answer all 11 questions per 3 to babies and children A stamped and selfO self self- O addressed i ope forwarded to toT tot t T h Telegram bring a per tg nal reply ply SLEEPING PURELY A MATTER OF HABIT The surest indication that the new new baby is well and healthy is a along long period of uninterrupted l sl sleep ep after fter each feeding T The e baby who eats and sleeps and sleeps and eats has very little wrong him so tI that at our aim Is s' s sto to make thIs a chronic condItion A baby c cn n not sleep too much When a baby aby Is wak wakeful ful and frets they the ever present they who offer advice about every every question which p perturbs the the young oung mother are to Sd say that the baby should stay of the time Acting on this advice some mothers have gone to the length of keepIng the baby awake part or of the day perhaps because he didn't always sleep through the night Usually she finds that this just the theother theother other way and instead of wooing more sleep for the baby at night I she finds he sleeps stIll less The well baby sleeps after each feeding and hIs only wakeful periods pert pert- are those before his bath and an hour or two before his bedtime at night The baby who shrieks regularly following his 6 o'clock feeding Is likely dissatisfied at this feeding even though all others may maybe maybe be satisfactory Ask yourself these questIons if the baby is sleeping poorly Is he gaining five to sIx ounces a week Has he a clear breathing apparatus I t one that is not clogged with overgrown adenoids II Is he sleeping alon eYen if it is only in a bas baske warm Babies nad t r adults Is there in the Is he being fed reg every ery three or eve is he beIng f fed d ev ever This last method is er any baby's sleep Is he being played at bedtime Our modern bab babs f well as our our mothErs 1 is dup due to our mod modern rn ting a baby to beding bed t ing and expecting Ung hI bin know that the baby does not need I merit ment All he perfectly is a chan chanc sleep regularly F L 3