Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-07-07
CARE Of THE BABY IN SUMMER.
ren's Bureau, L. S. Department of (.
Labor
WEAVING and Supplementary FEEDING.

WEAVING Is the process by which breast
feeding j. stopped and another food given
in its place. Ii should be done gradually.
AT first give one bottle instead of one of
the breast feelings; after "A week or two
add another bottle, and then continue ad-
ding them until bottle feelings are entire
~ substituted for the breast.
Never hurry the weaving. Give the baby
time 10 get used to the new food. When il
IL agreeing with his digestion, there is no
belching of gas or splitting up of milk, and
the bowel movements are soft, yellow an,
smooth. II any disturbance appears, stop
the bottle until it is over, giving only the
breast milk.
A baby should never be weaned in the
it. He j. much more likely TO be made
sick by strange food when the weather j.
hot than at other times of the year. Even
if the baby has to be fed partly on the bot
tie the mother should nurse him often
enough tthree or four times a day. TO keep
the breast milk from drying up: for if the
baby should be attacked by diarrhea, the
mothers milk may be the means Of saving
his life.
Some mothers are able to nurse their
babies a full year, but many find that their
milk begins To fail by the time the baby l.
q to s months old. so that some additional
food will be required. Practically all ba-
bies should he entirely weaned from the
breast by the time they are a year old, un-
less that brings the weaving in hot weather.
Babies born in the late summer or early
fall should he nurSed through the follow
ing Summer, ii the breast milk j. sufficient
IL quantity. III order To carry them past the
danger period in July and August. When
breast milk lessons IN quantity. 1t does not
change in quality. BY the addition Of \
bottle or two, therefore. the deficient guam
tity can be made up.
Ii j. sometimes quite difficult IL wcan a
baby and great patience l. required on
the part of the mother. but If the baby has
been taught at an early age 10 take his
drinking water from II bottle or from "a
cup, weaving will be easier. If the baby *
nursed until he L. ten months old or longer.
he should be weaned directly To a cup.
Earlier il will probably be easier to use
a nursing bottle and nipple; but the bot
tie should not be used much beyond the
end Of the first year. save for the bed time
feeding.
Remember when feeding from a cup.
that the milk must be- taken very slowly.
Just a slowly a. when feeding from a
hottie ~ pu-lYr A.. fool traru 4. nell
spoon than to teach the baby to drink from
a cup.
The second summer has gained the rcpu-
tation of being the most critical period of
"A baby's life largely because mothers are
apt to feed the baby many different things
after he is weaned. Very much of the
food that is given these Older babies. i
a. unfit for them n artificial food j. at
birth.
These improper foods cause trouble
some, dangerous and unnecessary illness
which are aggravated by the heat. Care
full feeding would prevent most of them.
Later articles III tins series will deal
with the feeding Of babies from nine to
twelve months, and during the second year.
When a fed baby cries 4 good
deal from hunger. and does not GAIN IN
weight, the mother l. apt 10 feel that her
milk does not agree with him. and - wean~
him, often because Of the we'll meaning ad-
vice of some neiehbor. This j. o mistake.
The trouble l. not with the quality OF her
milk, but with the quantity.