The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-23
Little / Talks on Babyology
By Anna Seese Richardson Director Of the Better Babies
Bureau Of the Woman's Home Companion

then an intelligent combination OF
breast and bottle diet.
And this brings us to the problems
OF the mother who must bring up
her baby on the bottle exclusively
The scientific and successful rails
ing Of a baby on the bottle depends
upon two distinct lines OF care and
caution,-the selection of the food to
be supplied and the care Of the bot
l.les. The best of food in an unsani.
tary bottle or drawn through an I'M
clean nipple becomes dangerous to
baby's health.
In choosing artificial food for your
baby remember that even physicians
differ on this question. Many emil
nent American specialists for child
rem insist that fresh cows milk, prop
erly modified is the only substitute
for mothers milk Foreign authori-
ties recommend goats milk. And +
there are other recognized authori- |
ties on baby-health who have found |
it advisable to prescribe for delicate
Eshottle-fed babies a combination of
milk and patent food. Not only must
the mother consult her family physi- |
clan On this question, but with the
! physician she must watch the effect
of the food chosen on the baby
Vomiting, restlessness, sleepless-
ness and the condition of the bowels
I being assimilated. In this connec-I
/ ton the inexperienced mother must
understand that there are two FIRMS
| of vomiting in the young baby. or
more properly speaking, there is a
/ difference between vomiting and res
gurgitaticn, slight to be sure, but
worth watching. Reorganization is
merely the overflow of milk when the
! baby has taken too much. II follows
almost Immediately upon having tho
i breast or bottle taken away. and the
milk is in practically the SANE CONT
ton as when it entered the stomach.
/ But WREN the baby vomits habtually
after feeding. and the milk IL curaled
or teIgh or sour, there is something
wlaag with the bottle diet.
The bowels are sure Indication
of the way in which the bottle diet
1 agrees or disagrees with the baby.
4 When the passage is hard and ba1ri
let-like, when it shows curds or VIII te
Jumps like cheese, Or when mucus Is
1 present Ia Shiny phlegml, or there is
diarrhea, the mother may be sure
I That the food does not agree with her
faby and the doctor should be COR
shifted Immediately.
No medicine should be giren III
]. s;lei cases without consulting dec
4 tor. What the baby needs ,s not Sox-
liz hut the right sort of tooa, ,tla
= f0of its stomach will digest
A. one contest in the midwest lie
4 ii,eifei Of little prize winner told
& me that at eleven months, the almost
! lost her baby. She had change.i fiet
me and time again. very re from
Il certified cows milk to well known
!. patent food. The baby was reduced
to skeleton when the physician de:
cfded to try not milk, but cream, di-
s luted with barely water. The changs
in the baby's condition was immed-
! late, and it continued to thrive with
} out further change of diet. On the
) other hand, some babies fed on this
, modified cream would not thrive.
: Frankly, feeding a baby deprived of
breast milk often resolves itself into
I an experiment. but an experiment
) which must be conducted in an intel,
: ligent manner, with the advice Of a
physician Do not consult yol,. neigh.
) bor no matter how many babies she
, has raised successfully. The bottle
7 food which was real fcod to her bah.
. les may be poison for yours There
3 are no hard and fast rules for bottle
. foods Each baby is a case unto It.
J. self and requires the most delicate
! attention, the utmost vigilance. Even
/. two babies in one family may require
). different forms of artificial nourish.
r ment, or at least different modiflca.
l. lions OF cows milk
: Babyology lays special stress on
j, diet for the bottle-fed baby, so the
h next article will define the much dis
r cussed modified milk and the care Of
). the bottle in which 1t Is served to the
a baby.
k Copyright, 1913. by the Woman's
3, Home Companion.)