New Britain herald., 1914-07-23
WHAT EVERY MOTHER WANTS
 TO KNOW ABOUT HER BABY
By Anna Seese Richardson Director of the Better Babies Bureau of the Womans Home Companion Cues
 tions of Many Mothers Answered.
NO. -Weanin g and Teething.

more nourishment, build up your own health and gradually feed him modi- fed milk from bottle, spoon or cup, preferably the latter.
 3.-Does weaning increase the dan ger of feeding?
 Not when the baby is teething nor mally and his digestion is generally good. Teething is a normal process. Illness during teething comes gener ally from digestive disorders, not from the pain of dentition. Wean the baby gradually, using judgment in se- lecting the formula, feed regularly, watch the bowels carefully and if the ba by seems normal, there is no danger.
 4.-When should a baby be weaned?
 Progressive physicians and baby specialists no longer set a definite month for weaning. In fact when a taby is healthy, the process is auto matic, starting within a few months after birth. A bottle feeding is given once a day, in place of the usual breast feeding at three months or even earlier. This is increased to two feelings day at six months. Soon after this. the baby is trained to drink modified milk from a spoon or cup and at twelve months it is ready to give up the breast entirely. This plan is approved because it prepares the baby for any emergency such as maternal illness, death or separation, and it gives the mother more liberty. Most important, it accustoms the taby's stomach gradually, almost i'm perceptibly to cows milk. Sudden changes in diet are always dangerous.
 5.-When should the bottle e-fed baby be weaned?
 If he is in good condition, that is up to the proper standard of weight and general health, at nine months he may be fed some foods, like gruel. or his modified milk, and even beef broth from cup along with half a bottle. At year, such a feeding is substituted for the usual bottle feed ing. At fifteen months he has three bottle feelings and two cup feedings. At sixteen or seventeen months, he has three meals a day, and a bottle at or 10. At eighteen or twenty months no bottle is given at night. The weaning is accomplished.
 O.--VV ilCI1 SAOu1u DdOy OCE1n teething?
 Babies begin teething at different times. Sometimes delayed teething is a family trait More often it is due to ill-health, malnutrition, rickets or other constitutional diseases. The breast-fed child teeths earlier and more easily than a bottle-fed baby and usually exhibits it's two lower middle teeth at six months. If no teeth have appeared at nine months, a doctor should be consulted. An average table of dentition is this
 Twelve months six teeth; eighteen months, twelve teeth; twenty-four months, sixteen teeth; thirty months, twenty teeth, the complete first set or milk teeth.
 Does hard teething cause con- vUlsions?
 Not unless teething is ompanied ty disQrdered digestion. The pain from teething is not sufficient to cause convulsions, but pain, a slight temperature, and indigestion together will bring on convulsions. s.-when should the gums be lanced?
 On the advice of your physician only. If the gums are swollen and discolored and there is fever with vomiting and perhaps slight diarrhoea, send for your doctor at once. This may mean the approach of the dreaded summer complaint, which in combination with teething is so generally fatal. THOUSANDS ENJOY