The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-21

+, With five as the number of feeds and
the amount of each feeding for each
are Known, it is very easy to calculate
the amount of food required for the "a
hours. In practice DR.. Gruless holds it
advisable to give a little more food at
each 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,
. months old. nine ounces. Children be-
tween these ages take a quantity be-
tween these measures.
Using these figures as a basis, 1t Is
easy to figure the amount of food re-
CURED. For instance, a baby 6 months
old will take five times seven, equals 35
ounces of food in the "a hours. If the
baby weighs ID pounds his daily food
supply would consist of 81 ounces of
milk and one ounce of malt food. In or
der to bring this up to the quantity re-
CURED, 35 ounces. it will be necessary
TO add Ia ounces of water.
A baby 8 months old, weighing IA
pounds, would take As ounces of food,
consisting of one ounce of malt food, 81
ounces o. milk. and "a ounces of water.
In the first place, this plan is simpler
and easier from the standpoint of the
mother. In the secondhand this does
mot appear on the surface-it does away
with the very elaborate calculations as
to percentages of fat, protein, sugar in
cows milk and human milk upon which
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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 eat. If a baby fed on
this plan does not gain in weight, a
no bowel trouble, and goes at his fists
as il he was hungry, his mixture
should contain a little more milk and
a little less water. If he gets too fat,
or has collie, or spits up his food, or
gets an eczema, he hould 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.
70 the careless one the hazards are
greater tina when the babies were
younger.
What is meant is this: An older
BABY has very much better digestion
imam a younger one, but the advantage
is often more than offset by permit
ting the child to eat without regard to
the dtgestibility 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
a pint OF water may be added to the
diluted milk. After the 10th month a
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,
strained and diluted to a quart. About
this time meat juice may be added.
Orange juice may be begun in babies
as young as 3 months of age.
The proportion 5f milk to the weight
of the baby should be allowed grad
ually to decrease. The rule is to give
one and a half ounces for each 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 and a
third ounces in place of one and a half.
Later one n a quarter ounces is
enough. 1t is never advisable to give
a our 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 a period of
great hazard, but it need not be 50. In
the case of about half the babies, those
born in the spring n summer the
first summer is not a teething period.
The second summer is a teething per-
iod for all babies.
The food during the first summer Is
entirely in the hands of the parents.
That of the second summer is some
times contributed to by outsiders; the
child himself may slip something INA
wares; the parents are disposed to be
less careful the second summer than
they We're 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 and potatoes may be given. Meat
juice, thinner gravies and butter are
given to advantage. At about Is months
chicken; meat and fish. finely chopped
and well cooked. may be added. The
habit of giving the child q zone to such
as a method of starting the use Of meat
is a good one.
Feeding a baby under 8 months OF
age does not concern many readers OF
this column. In the first place the
great majority of mothers breast feed
their babies for three months. The milk
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 q
matter Of such skill and varies SO
much in the Individual case that most
people are anxious to leave it to skilled
baby feeders.
There is some difference of opinion as
70 wnether a baby should ave any
food in the first "a hours of it's life. +
think the majority are of the opinion
that 1t should not. Plain water. I'M
sweetened. Is better than sugar water,
During the remainder of the first
week DR.. Grulee offers the baby three
ouhiScs VI d mixture na1I milk I'M half
water. To a I days old baby weighing
eight pounds he gives Is ounces of milk
and water. half and half, in six feed
ings. IA day old baby weighing eight
pounds gets the same mixture with the
addition of ~one-quarter ounce Of malt
food. a 2 months old baby weighing
10 pounds gets milk, IL ounces. water,
101a ounces; malt food, three-uuarters
OF an ounce. in five feelings of four and
one-half ounces each.
IABsHELE
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