New Britain herald., 1915-07-06
News for 7heane Goeys and Women Readers

place among very young babies, and that if baby has survived this early period his chance of living to grow up is greatly increased.
 Mistakes In Feeding Babies. The reason the second summer has acquired this partly undeserved reputation for danger lies very large ly in the fact that babies are often made sick because mothers make many mistakes in feeding a baby aft CT he is weaned and before his diges- tion is able to deal with ordinary family meals,
 The fear of the second summer re- suits also from the fact that the baby IS getting his teeth at this time. Al though the teething process some times is unjustly blamed for causing illness, babies are, no doubt, often up set by the pain of teething and do, therefore, suffer more readily from mistakes in feeding.
 Affected By Heat. A third reason why the second sum- mer makes babies sick applies equally to the first summer, that is, the eN- cessive heat affects them badly both directly and indirectly. Heat often spoils the milk and makes IL unnt for the baby's use. But even a prop erly-fed baby may be made sick when the weather is very hot
 A long continued spell of extreme heat is very hard on babies of all ages, and the greatest care is needed to avoid every other cause of illness at this time and to prevent by every possible means ar, attack of summer diarrhoea. t>
 Greatest Safeguard.
 The greatest safeguard which the mother can throw about her baby Tn the second summer is to see that he has proper food at regular intervals in suitable quantities, and to keep him cool A baby who is about or 10 months at the beginning of sum mer should, if possible, continue at the breast until September, because even two or three breast feedings day may be enough to keep his diges- tion in good order; and. in case he becomes i'll, to save his life, The breast milk should be supplemented with two or three bottles of cows milk properly prepared, as directed in
 
 In addition, some other food may be given, but it must always be re- membered that care in feeding the baby at this age is as important as in early infancy. Changes in the diet in summer should be made very cau- tiously Only one new article of food should be added at time. It should be given at first in very small quan- titles, and it's effect on the baby care fully watched meanwhile.
 If the Eaby vomits, belches gas. or shows looseness of the bowels, the food should be greatly lessened in quantity or taken away altogether un- til the disturbance subsidies.
 Food Recommended.
 For baby from g months to one year of age. the following food is recomm ended: Strained orange or prune juice may be given once day after the baby is eight or nine months old, unless his bowels have tenden- cy to looseness; it should be given midway between feedings; for in- stance, if he is fed every four hours, the juice is given two hours after bottle feeding or nursing. It is best to begin with small amounts, say. two or three teaspoonfuls, and to increase slowly till one to three tablespoonfuis are given daily.
 At nine months he may be giNei, beef juice, beef tea. or plain mutton or chicken broth once day.
 At ten months he may have one to two tablespoonfuls of cereal once day. Cream of wheat or farina may be used. either of which should be cooked for at least three-quarters of an hour in double boiler.
 At ten months he may have small piece of toast or zwieback or crust of bread to chew imm ediately after his midday feeding
 At twelve rnonths he may have cereal twice day. If oatmeal is used it must be cooked for three hours and strained.
 Child Twelve Months Old.
 The following diet may be recon mended for child at 12 or l3 months
 a. m. Milk, s-1o ounces.
 a. m. Orange juice, 1-3 table spoonfuls.
 10 m. Cereal, 1 tablespoonful with milk, CT stale bread and zwie- back with milk, to ounces.
 ? D. m Broth with stale bread. or Beef juice, ounce with bread crumbs.
 D. m. Same as 10 a. m. 10 p. m. Milk, 8 ounces
 The principal requisite for success full feeding is that only such ample food as mentioned above should be 1 given. It is particularly dangerous to give the baby of this age tastes of the family meals, for if this is done the baby is pretty sure to be given food unsuited to his digestive organs, and also to have his taste spoiled for