Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-09
LITTLE TALKS ON BABYOLOGY
BY M STEESE RICHARDSON
Director of The Better Babies Bureau of the Womans Home Companion
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No. 3
FEEDING THE BABY
bu ANNA STEESE RICHARDSON

months, then an intelligent combination Of breast
and bottle diet.
And this brings up to the problems of the mother
who must bring up her baby on the bottle exclusively,
The scientific and successful raising 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 bottles. The best of food in All
unsanitary bottle or drawn through an unclean nipple
becomes dangerous to Baby's health.
In choosing artificial food for your baby, remem'
Der that even physicians differ on this question. Many
eminent American specialists for children insist that
fresh cows milk, properly modified, is the only sub
stitute for mothers milk. Foreign authorities rec
ommend goats milk. And there are other recognized
authorities on baby-health who have found it advis.
able to prescribe for delicate bottlefed babies a
combination OF milk and patent food. Not only must
the mother consult her family physician on this ques.
ton, but with the physician she must watch the effect
Of the food chosen on the baby.
Vomiting, Festlessness, sleeplessness and the con
dition of the bowels all tell the tale of food that is
not being assimilated. In this connection the mex
perienced mother must understand that there are two
forms of vomiting in the young baby, or more properly
speaking, there is a difference between vomiting and
reorganization, slight, to be sure, but worth watching.
Reorganization is merely the overflow OF milk when
the baby has taken too much. 1t follows almost i'm.
HouldIcly UPON udNlue lit VI UoItle oho
away, and the milk is in practically the same condi
ton as when it entered the stomach. But when the
baby vomits habitually after feeding, and the milk is
curdled or tough or sour, there is something wrong
with the bottle diet.
The bowels are a sure indication Of the way in
which the bottle diet agrees or disagrees with the
baby. When the passage is hard and bullet-ike, when
it shows curds of white Jumps like cheese, or when
mucus is present "a Shiny phlegm), or there is diar>
rhea, the mother may be sure that the food does not
agree with her baby and the doctor should be con-
suited Immediately.
No medicine should be given in such cases without
consulting a doctor. What the baby needs is not
dosing, but the right sort of food, the food its stomach
will digest.
At one contest in the midwest the mother of a
little prize winner told me that at eleven months,
she almost lost her baby. She had changed diet time
and time again, varying from certified cows milk to
a well known patent food. The baby was reduced to
a skeleton when the physician decided to try not milk,
but cream, diluted with barley water. The change in
the baby's condition was immediate, and it continued
to thrive without 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 an expert
ment, which must be conducted in an Intelligent
manner, with the advice Of a physician. Do not con-
suit your %neighbor, no matter how many babies she
has raised successfully. The bottle food which was
real food to her babies may be poison for yours.
There are no hard and fast rules for bottle foods.
Each baby is a case unto itself and requires the most
delicate attention, the utmost vigilance. Even two
babies in one family may require different forms OF
artificial nourishment, or at least different %modifca-
lions of cows milk.
Babyology lays special stress on diet for the bottle.
fed baby, SO the next article will define the much
discussed modified milk and the care of the bottle In
it is served to the baby.