The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-10-09

tne most pat-aDle" creaSeS, and his
complexion was blooming, but he had
such a scowl on his round face and
he showed everything and everybody
away from him as if the entire world
were distasteful. Mother said he had
never been really good natured baby,
and she didn't know why. But the
doctors found out. The plump stom-
ach of which his mother was so proud
was not an indication of health but of
undigested, unassimilated food, over
feeding.
At eighteen months, a baby's head,
chest and abdomen should measure
just the same, IS 1-2 inches. This
poor little laddie had an eighteen inch
head, seventeen inch chest and an
abdomen measuring 10 1-2. And just
by exploring with his finger, the doc
tor found an ugly mass of undigested
food down in one corner of that bulg-
ing abdomen. OF course, Baby want
ed to shove people away. So do you,
Grown-up, when you have a sick head
ache or bilious attack.
Here was a baby being overfed with
milk, just milk, but milk not properly
prepared.
And there you have it, rash, NAL
nutrition and downright Indigestion,
all because three mothers did not
know what was going on inside of
Babys tummy. We think so long as
Baby has milk and nothing else he is
safe. Milk, even mothers milk, needs
watching, and Babyology tells you
how to do it.
The feeding of the baby begins be-
fore it is born. The condition of the
newborn baby's stomach is largely de-
termined by the condition of the
mothers stomach before he comes into
the world. That is why the expectant
mother should guard her diet and her
digestion so carefully during the pre-
cious months before her baby comes.
Any pronounced digestive trouble is
communicated to the baby directly,
and it comes into the world lilly
equipped for its first months strug-
gle for existence. The vast majority
of babies who die during their first
year, die of inanition, mal-assimila-
ton of food, indigestion and summer.
complaint. The mother can start her
baby right by keeping her own digestion
in the best of condition. Some mothers,
in the spirit of self-sacrifice, serve at
table the choicest food to their grow
ing children, their Woodworking hus-
bands and sons No expectant mother
should deny herself the nourishment
required to sustain her own strength
and that of the little child so soon to
be ushered into the world.
The natural, the best food for the
new born babe is mothers milk. And
the Creator has given the average wo-
man strength to nourish her child in
this natural way. Sometimes, directly
after the baby's birth, the mother is
very weak; then well-meaning but in
terfering relatives and advisers urge
her to ween the baby at once, when
with a little patience, the supply of
milk would be ample, Unless the
mother is anemic or suffering from
constitutional or acute disease, the
baby will thrive best on mothers milk.
And the ability to nurse the baby until
a safe time for weaving can be encour-
aged by careful attention to the
mothers diet
A well balanced diet, made up from
a variety of foods which the mother
Graves, will nourish both mother and
child.
Meat that is easily digested, like
chicken, beef and lamb, is better than |
pork and veal. Fish may occasionally !
be substituted for meat, and eggs are
desirable if they do not create a bilious
condition. Green vegetables and fresh
or stewed fruits the mother should
have in quantity. On the other hand,
she should avoid excuses in diet,
this be tea, coffee, sweets or
pastries. Light desserts do not harm,
but rich pies and puddings that keep
the mother awake at night win have
precisely the same effect on the baby.
No young mother should listen to
what doctors call "old women's tales"
lad advice about extremes in diet.
vt one of the contests, heard young
mother say that she was drinking malt
o make her milk more nourishing for !
he baby. And how she did hate that {
malt. 1t nauseated her every time she q
rank it. |
When the doctors told her that any E