The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-11

The following suggestions are laid
 out for the benefit of young mothers
 by pr. E. A. Mcclellan, health officer. who has taken up the subject of care
 of babies during the hot weather:
 The Proper Food for Babies is Mothers 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 it 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 tilema food for which the little stomachs are not fit- ted. While you nurse your baby do not give it morsel of solid food, or
 give it either tea, coffee or beer Wait until the baby gets teeth before giv- ing food which needs to be chewed. If breast milk fails, feed your ba- by cows milk from clean bottle. Bottle-fed babies must be given ! only good milk which is kept con- starfly covered andE on ice. If the milk cannot be kept properly covered, I it should be boiled as soon as receiv- led.
 To keep the milk sweet for your ba- by. put the milk which the baby will need during the next 24 hours in a bottle with tight cork, or a glass jar
 having tight cover. The bottle or jar and the cover must be boiled be- | fore the, milk is poured in- Set a | pan Of cold water on the stove. Put l in vessel with top loosely screwed on,.s containing baby's milk. When lswater boils, take out the vessel with I baby milk: open, add little less l lsthan one-half teaspoonful of baking las6da. to one quart of milk. Put back tRae cover of the vessel. Do not al- low anyone to touch the milk unless I using its for the Baby. t E5 Dom ft @er-feed the baby. A new born bahy's stomach will hold from l two to three tablespoonsful, and not l any more than this amount; rather less should be given at a time during k the. first week or so of bottle-fed t tbaby,s life. As the baby grows, the Equantit should be gradually increas- I ed 9sos that at the end of the first 4 in1onthf 1t srnay be taking about four I tablespoonsful at a meal. Some chil- t dren will require more, and others i will not stand so much, but there is Emore danger of giving too much at 3 EtiTne than too little.
 Weigh the baby each week. A l healthy baby should gain a pound a week at this period of life. If your
 baby does not gain this, consult your l 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 crying from hunger.
 Tt may be thirsty.
 It may have collie. See that it's hands and feet are warm.
 That itsis not,too hot (sweating.) That it's diaper is soft, clean and dry.
 That no pins are wounding it. 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 1Ht0Y pOIIlGs E1saLs AEkA s1I1l II l it is as warm as breast milk Put rubber nipple on bottle.
 | Don't feed baby under six months
 of age with a spoon. Sucking is the natural way by which baby takes it's food It needs the sucking. action | of the lips and mouth and tongue to f mix it's foods with the fluids of the mouth, and for the proper develop Ement of the mouth and teeth. | Don't use tube on the bottle. Use
 a nipple.
 Don't forget to wash bottle and