The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-10
HOT WEATHER TIPS ON CARE
 OF THE BABIES
Board of Health Issues Circular For Benefit of Parents How Mothers May Guard Little Ones Against Hot Weather 
 Changes

h uCdCAAS HI IIlC IlOC MedEIlGr
 for lack Of proper care of the lit-
 tie ones.
 In 1910 there were in Connecti-
 cut 26,6S1 births. Before these
 children had reached one year,
 S,4S4 had been swept down by the
 grim reaper. And to add to the
 slaughter of the innocents by the
 ignorance of parents, 1,219 rang
 ing from 1 to 5 years of age swell
 ed the death toll.
 With the exception of 1907 the
 total births in Connecticut was the
 largest in the history of the state.
 The total deaths of children under
 , years was 4,625. Total deaths
 for children under 5 last year ag-
 gregated 4,643, the death rate be-
 ing slightly larger last year than : the year before.
 Tho State Board of Health calls especial attention to a significant
 fact to be deduced from it's statis-
 tics. The death rate of children
 from 1 to shows a consistent re-
 duction as years roll by. But the
 mortality of children under year
 continues high and while there
 have been at times noticeable de-
 creases. these have not been so
 rapid and they have been very ir-
 regular.
 The Board of Health has prepared for distribution for hot weather a leaf let containing instructions as to the care of babies. It dwells particular ly upon the diet of the infants, and of the necessity Of regularity in nurs- ing and of keeping the infants cool.
 Here is the Health departments cir cular: t
 The proper food for babies is moth CTS milk.
 Nurse your baby, if possible Ten bottle-fed babies die to one that is breast-fed
 Nurse the baby regularly at certain hours, and not every time it cries. Once in two or three hours is often enough to nurse it until 1t is four or five weeks old; after that not, so often. Nurse the baby until it is eight or nine months old. Do not wean your baby during the hot weather.
 Many infants are killed every year by bringing them to the table with the family and giving them food for which the little stomaohs are not fit ted. While you nurse your baby do not give 1t a morsel of solid food, or until the baby gets teeth before giving food which needs to be chewed.
 If breast milk fails, feed your baby cows milk from a clean bottle.
 Bottle-fed babies must be given only good milk which is kept constantly covered and on ice. If the milk can not be kept properly covered, it should Le boiled as soon as received.
 To keep the milk sweet for your baby, put the milk which the. baby will need during the next A hours in bottle with tight cork, or a glass jar having tight cover. The bottle or jar and the cover must be boiled before the milk is poured in. Set a pan of cold water on the stove. Put in ves- sel, with top loosely screwed on, con- taining baby's milk When water boils, take out the vessel with baby's milk; open, add little less than one half teaspoonfM of baking soda to one quart of milk. Put back the cover of the vessel Do not allow anyone to touch the milk unless using 1t for the baby. Z.
 Don't over-feed the baby. A new born baby's stomach will hold from two to three tablespoonfuls, and rot more than this amount; rather less should be given at a time during the first week or so of a bottle-fed baby's life. As the baby grows, the quantity should be gradually increased so that at the end of the first month it may be taking about four tablespoonfuls at a meal. Some children will require more, and others will, not stand so much. but there is more danger of SnNihB poo ihucii e1I iiue lHdu IOO little
 Weigh the baby each week. A healthy baby should gain a pound a week at this period Of life. If your baby does not gain this, consult your doctor about the food to be given, and be guided by his advice
 If the baby cries, remember that if it has been fed regularly it is not cry ing from hunger.
 It may be thirsty.
 It may have colic
 See that its hands and feet are warm.
 That, it is not too hot (sweating.)
 That it's diaper is soft, clean and dry.
 That no pins are woundfng 1t.
 To prepare milk for baby's meal. To each cup of milk add two cups of water and white sugar Sometimes sugar of milk is better), enough to make it as sweet as breast milk. Pour it into bottle. Heat this milk until it is as warm as breast milk. Put rubber nipple on bottle.
 Don't feed a baby under six months of age with q spoon. Sucking is the natural way by which a baby takes it's food It needs the sucking action of the lips and mouth and tongue to mix it's foods with the fluids of. the mouth, and for the proper develop ment of the mouth and teeth.
 Don't use a tube on the bottle. Use a nipple
 Don't forget to wash bottle and nip pie after using. Babies often get sore mouth, wind colic'', and summer complaint from want of care of the nursing bottle.
 Cleanse the bottle immNdiately after feeding
 Cleanse the nipple thoroughly out side and inside. Nipples with tubes are convenient for a lazy mother, but mean death to the baby
 To prepare barley water for the baby. When the baby is four or five weeks old, barley-water should be used in the place of plain water. Put two tablespoonsful of pearl barley in- to four cups of cold water; boil an hour or more until the amoont of wa ter is reduced to two cups. Then strain through a clean cloth; add pinch of salt, and sweaten to breast milk taste. Add this to a cup of scalded cows milk as before describ- ed, and begin feeding this strength, Use more cows milk gradually and less barley water until at about six months of age the child is getting thirds milk and one-third barley water This will make a good food as the baby can get during teething op ue1rirr Affar fhic time then