Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1928-06-08 | Page 7 | How Much Water Should Baby Get?

HowMuchWater Should Baby Get? A Famous Authority's "Rule Dy TluthZSriltain V J 1 Baby specialists agree nowadays, that during the first six months, babies . must have three ounces of fluid per pound of body weight dally. An eight-pound eight-pound baby, for Instance, needs twenty-four ounces of fluid. Later on the rule Is two ounces of fluid per pound of body weight. The amount of fluid absorbed by a breast-fed baby is best determined by weighing bim before and after feeding for the whole day; and It Is easily calculated for the bottle-fed one. Then make up any deficiency de-ficiency with water. Giving baby sufficient water often relieves his feverish, crying, upset and restless spells. If it doesn't, give him a few drops of Fletcher's Castorla. For these and other ills of babies and children such as colic, cholera, diarrhea, diar-rhea, gas on stomach and bowels1, constipation, con-stipation, sour stomach, loss of sleep, underweight, etc., leading physicians, say there's nothing so effective. It is purely vegetable the recipe Is on the wrapper and millions of mothers have depended on It in over thirty years of ever Increasing use. It regulates regu-lates baby's bowels, makes him sleep and eat right, enables him to get full nourishment from his food, so he increases in-creases in weight as he should. With each package you get a book on Motherhood Moth-erhood worth its weight ir gold. Just a word of caution. Look for ihe signature of Chas. H. Fletcher on the package so you'll be sure to get the genuine. The forty-cent bottles contain thirty-five doses.