Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-06-09
Training a Baby.

Begin training him as soon as he is
born. Establish at once regular hours
for his feeding and sleeping. For the
first four weeks feed him every two
hours between a. IN. and q p. M, once
at 10 y. IN. and once at , a. III. After Il
month he should be fed every two and a
half hours between a. m. and $50 ..
m. with an additional feeding at 10 p. III.
Stick to this system though the heav-
ems fall 4 large amount of the fretful
ness and moaning of infants Is due to
stomach disorders brought on by feelings
at irregular intervals and in irregular
quantities. Once thoroughly established,
the system will be found to work admira-
bly,. Go into the Sloan Maternity hos
pital in New York city, where it is in
vogue, and you will see scores of newly
born infants wake up like clockwork at
the hours mentioned, and where silence
had reigned there will be a terrible rum
puS until food is forthcoming. If your
baby, however, should continue to sleep
when feeding time comes round, don't
hesitate to arouse him. Keep him strictly
to business during his meal. but if at any
time he shows Il disposition to stop short
of the customary allowance, let him.
Babies have rights. Their little ''tum-
mics" know better than you when they
need rest.
And now as to the cry of temper and
the cry of habit and indulgence. You
don't have to be told, little mother, what
these cries indicate. You know perfectly
well they indicate you have made false
start. You know that blessed baby is
crying for a light in his room, to be
rocked, to be carried about for Il bottle
to be sucked. or to be INDUCED in some
other bad habit you have been the means
of his acquiring. Well, the thing has got
to be checked right here and now. What
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thing for you to do if you are satisfied
beyond a reasonable doubt that it is the
cry of temper or induigence-dOn't go
near the little darling.
what. let him cry?" Exactly. But
he will go on crying! Well, God bless
his little soul! let him bawl it out. if it
takes one. two, or even three hours.
You don't really mean that Yes, l
do. But he may hurt himself!' No, he
won't. II lie IS very young baby. you
will see that his abdominal band is prop
ery applied, and then there will be not
the least danger of rupture. And If he
is more than q year old. there will be
no danger of rupture under any circum-
stances. But what will happen if he
goes on crying for three hours?' That's
eaSy-he will stop And what's more, it
is ten to one that the next time he cries
from temper or Indulgence he will keep
it up for ten or fifteen minutes. and then,
seeing II 10 use, he viii quit Tor good
and all.
Nothing has been found that will quite
take the place of mothers milk. There
fore a mother should nurse her baby. if
possible. When il is not possible. the
best substitute is pure cows milk raw.
after it has been duly modified in accord
ance with the age of the child. Ra !,
milk. however. is unsafe for baby during
warm weather. on account of the germ
that are sure to develop in it. Pasteuri-
zation. therefore, must he resorted to in
summer But don't steriliZe the milk.
Steriiized milk is now under a ban. 1t
has been discovered that in the process
of sterilzat ton the boue-forming qualities
in the milk are destroyed along with the
germs, and that infants fed upon it for
any length of time are likely. not only
to have soft bones. but ricketts,, scurvy
and the most distressing diseases Of the
joints The difference between sterilized
aud pasteurized milk is simply in the
degree of heat TO which they are submit
ted and the length Of time the heat is
applied. Pasteurization consists of heat
ing the milk to $50 or 100 degrees Fab
renheit for thirty minutes. Milk IS steT-
ilized by heating it to 212 degrees for
one hour or an hour and a half.-Fraak
Barley Copey in Outing Magazine.