Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-10-20
FEEDING BABIES.
BY Or. w. A. A

hour interval during the day and a six
hour interval at night. After the baby
Is 3 months old the night feeding can
be shifted to 10, which makes IN eight
hour interval at night.
The long interval between feelings
gives the stomach plenty of time to
complete digestion of the milk and to
get a good rest before the next Workina
time.
The long interval plan is not new. II
has been tried out for years in his
Icountry. There are children old enough
to be in school who when babies were
fed at four hour intervals. Most OF us
have heard of the success of Aus
tralian and New Zealand mothers with
their babies. Only one out of every "a
of their babies die. The o hour plan
is n of their customs.
With five as the number of feeds and
the amount of each feeding for each
are known. 1T is very easy to calculate
the mount of food required for the "a
hours. In practice DR.. Gruless holds it
advisable to give a little more God at
leach period h Is indicated by the
size of the stomach in the table by DR..
Holt. He gives to a baby 3 months old
five ounces; 6 months old, seven ounces
3 months old. nine ounces. Children be-
tween these ages take a quantity be-
tween these measures.
Using these figures as a basis, it Ia
cas- w AI6uIS llC lOu vi kOOu 4SO
quired. For instance, a baby 6 months
old will take five times seven, equals IS
ounces of food in the "a hours. IL the
baby weighs IA pounds his daily food
supply would consist of u ounces OF
milk and one ounce of malt food. In or
der to bring this vi to the quantity re-
quired. IS ounces. 1t will be necessary
to add IA ounces Of water.
A baby 8 months old, weighing IA
pounds. wouii take As nce of food,
consisting ozone ounce of malt food. 81
ounces of milk. and "a ounces Of water.
and easier from the standpoint Of the
mother. In the secondhand this does
not appear on the surface-it does away
with the very elaborate calculations as
to percentages of fat, protein. uga in
cows milk and human milk upon which
foundation of the newer plan is simpler,
as we'll as it's superstructure.
Not even age and weight are inflex-
ible guides as to how much a baby
can or should IA II a baby fed on
this plan does not gain in weight. has
no bowel trouble. and goes at his fists
as If he was hungry, this mixture
should contain q little more milk and
a little less water. II he gets too fat,
or has collie, or spits up his food, or
gets an eczema, he should have a little
less milk and a little more water in
his mixture.
After the baby passes 9 months Of
age the problem of feeding becomes
much simpler to the careful mother.
To the careless n the hazards are
greater h when the babies were
younger.
What is meant is this: An older
baby has very much better digestion
is often more than offset by permit
ting the child to eat without regard to
the digestibility of the foods eaten.
After the ninth month q thick starch
cruel, consisting Of one-half ounce of
barley flour. oatmeal. or flour ball to
diluted milk. After the 10th month q
strained vegetable soup may be added.
A vegetable soup recommended by
Grulee consists of a handful of spin
ach, a large beet and two carrots in a
quart of water. boiled two hours,
this time meat juice may be added.
Orange Juice may be begun in babies
as young as 3 months of age.
The proportion of milk to the weight
of the baby should be allowed grad
ually to decrease. The rule is to give
one and a half unces for ach pound
of weight. In the latter part Of the
time the child is at the bottle. it is a
good idea to decrease this proportion.
For instance, when the child is 8
months old, to make it one n q
third ounces in place of n and a half.
Later n and a quarter unces is
enough. 1t Is never advisable to give
a young child more than a quart OF
milk a day.
The opinion is general that the sec
ond summer is the time of greatest
hazard to the baby. 1t Is q period Of
great hazard, but 1t need not be SO. In
1.-The case of about half the babies, those
born in the spring and summer, the
first summer is not a teething period.
iod for all babies.
entirely in the hands of the parents.
That of the secopd summer is ome
times contributed to by outsiders; the
child himself may slip something una
wares: the parents are disposed to be
less careful the second summer than
they were the first.
During the second year milk should
continue to be the chief element Of
diet. The first additions are usually
fruit Juices, crackers and cereals. At
the 18th month spinach. beets. car
rots n potatoes may be given. Meat
juice, hinne gravies and butter are
given to advantage. At about Is months
and well cooked. may be added. The
habit of giving the child a o n to such
as a method of starting the use Of meat
is a good one
Feeding a baby under 3 months Of
age does not concern many readers Of
this column. In the first place the
great majority of mothers breast feed
generally holds out that long even in
the mothers who have a poor milk sup
ply. In the second place the feeding
of a baby under 3 months of age is a