Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-03-17
Little Talks On Baby0l0gy
BY ANNA STEESE RICHARDSON
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No young mother should listen to
what doctors call odd women's tales,
! bad advice about extremes In dlet. AT
, one of the contests. I heard young
mother say that she was drinking malt
to make her milk more nourishing for
tn baby. And how she did hate that
mali. 1t nauseated her every time
she Ilrenk jC.
When the doctors told her that any
thing which nauseated her would af-
;ect the baby in the same way, she
was actually relieved. Yet she had
been forcing herself to drink the malt,
because an elderly neighbor had told
hel what wonders it had done for 9th
err women. Doctors, not neighhcrs,
OF EabTO!ogr.
Another woman told me that she
Didn't see why her baby could not re-
Tain her milk. 1t curdled on his stoT-
ach. And She assured me quite sol
emmy that she never ate anything
acid. She did love pickles and salads
and lemonade. hut her nurse had told
her she mus not eat sour things while
she nursed The baby. ! heard the SEN
sibls doctor in charge Of that contest
tell her to 30 right alcng home and
make her.e1f a good fresh salad and
ca. It un to the last leaf of lettuce
Her DIGESTION craved acid, and her
child actually suffered because her
sys en- was denied it. Acid to excess
is Gaugcrous. but balanced diet,
reyCr.
Another condition of the mother
which will affect the baby's digestion
is rervousncss A baby should not be
nurseh when the mother is angry or
is sulfc ring from shock of any sort.
The mother who is very tired from her
household duties should sit or lie
down and relax before nursing the
baby. If she sips glass of milk or
eats a cracker or biscuit before nurs-
ing the baby, she will help his diges.
ton.
So much for the general problem of
diet for mother and baby. Next we
will discuss the hours and quantity OF
food for nursing babies and then the
care Of the bottlefed baby. subjects
study very varefully.
FEEDING THE BABY.
The last talk on Babyology set forth
the importance Of mothers milk for
the baby under one year OF age, ana
the equal importance of the mother
keeping herself in good condition. A,
mother means we'll
nourished baby. /
Next to importance to the sort or
milk supplied the baby is the regu-
larity of supplying. now strange 1T IS
that we grown-ups who know the bad
effects of irregularity in eating think
that a newborn child can be fed IRE
gularly without bad effects!
One of the first questions asked
mother at the Better Babies Contest
is:
How many times a day is your
child fed?'
The variety of replies is amazing.
Il don't know"
whenever he cries
when he wakes up
ooh, when l get through with my
work.
Naturally babies fed in this way are
seldom prize winners. In studying the
score cards Of prize winners IN +,
dozen states, I find that ninety per
cent. are fed at regular intervals, &C.
cording to their age. 49,.
BABES are porn hungry TIL iidh!
weeks they have nothing to do. but
eat and sleep. we'll known writer /!
On babies says that eating is the only
form of recreation babies have. Adult
must decide how often q,
this habit of hunger should be salts
fled bearing in mind that baby will
cry lust as hard on an overloaded
stomach as on an empty one.
The time to start a baby in regular
habits of feeding is the day OF it's
birth. The newborn baby should be
nursed every two hours from a: m.
to 10 p. H., and once during the night
at 2 a. m. Within week If the baby J
is normal, the mother should begin /
nursing it only once in three hours be-
tween 6 a. IN. and 9 p. M with the ex-
ira nursing at 2 a. m. This means
seven feelings in twenty-four hours.