Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-03-11
Our Children.
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We have spent some time talking
about the diet OF our babies, but we are
not at all through the subject yet. How
many mothers there are, who read and
even feel tina, there Is a law and order
about the temporal welfare OF her child
as well as about the law Of christening
baptism, or any other law. She knows
that II she would have a healthy, happy,
sound and lovely babe, she must comply
with certain laws and regulations. And
yet, so selfish and so lndolent as TO this
thing is she, that she will sin day after
DAY, bring up her baby In misery to her
slli, the child, and every one living In the
house Then, ten chances to one. II
reminded Of the fact that there i, a
wiser and better way Of doing. she will
seek to excuse herself by saying that shc
loves her baby better than docs the
woman who acts with discretion about
the nursing and bringing up Of her child
rem. Fuugci She does nothing oi the
sort. Is II an evidence Of love TO make
the recipient thereof wrctched and sick
hali the time, and spoiled aud stupid the
other half Are we intelligent beings.
sisiers' Or do We live only a grade
above the animals and let our mind,
become perfectly useless for lack Of
using the reason God has given usp
To 20 ON now with our instructions,
and leave moralizng for another time,
we ask how often snail the baby nurse2
Grandma. and grandpa, and the midwife
aud nurse, and all the Old iogies. young
the child cries" Others, ashamed to
be SO dcuseIy ignorant of physiological
iacts when they hear and see them
demonstrated 40 often. will say, "Oh,
Try and Keep the baby from nursing two
hours apart VI you can" last so. Now,
! could produce any amount OF the best
medical authorities to bear me ont in
what am going to say, but will let YOU
trust TO nay word, Is the space here Is
very small in which to talk on these
matters. II ! had to choose between
nursing a baby whenever IL wakes up
or cries. and nursing II every two hours,
waking u up 40 the end Of that time to
nurse, | would choose the haphazard
way. The fact D., that ii the greatest
care has been exercised from line first
that baby shall never be introduced to
the dreaded collie. then you can let her
choose pretty much her own times for
awakening. But, when she IS awake,
don't nurse her as often as every two
hours. Once In three hours is quite
often enough for any baby, and
physicians will readily extend this period
from one to two hours longer. The
great mistake you make is that every
cry baby makes Is hunger cry. To
be sure, baby nestIes, that is only in
stinct. And Size thinks IN her peculiar
baby way, that her nurse will cure every
III flesh Is heir 20. But II won't. Ilyou
hear your baby cry an hour after II has
laid down, you may know that II is not
hunger, but is pretty apt to be collie.
VIII the baby thrive OH meal IN every
three or four hours' Yes, yes, and yes
again; thrive and grow like weed
She may not be as lat as Dickens tat
boy nor as near like prize pig as some
babies you see are, but remember that
excessive Fat is disease, aud the baby
that is too fat is in constant danger OF
being carried OF by Group, diarrhGa, or
in fact any disease that comes along.
Now, It is absolutely necessary that baby
gets all she wants every time she nurses,
that is the secret OF it all. II the intervals
are long enough between, she will not
take more than she needs.