Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-07-20
HOW TO FEED BABY
Especially Natural Feeding, the
Ideal Way.
THE BEST OF SUSTENANcE.
Human Milk Was Intended For Babies,
and the Next Best Substitute, Cows
Mix, Was Designed For Stomaohs
That Can Pass Tough Curds.

MIX, was DeSlSn6o TUT StoHtaoste
That Can Pass Tough curds.
Prepared by Ohio state department of
health-1
That human milk Is the e food
for babies Is an accepted fact, but
there may be too much ever Of this
diet for the baby. The baby should
have its milk regularly, but it should
have long hours of rest between feed
ings. A baby's stomach holds one ounce
at birth and three ounces at n month.
ANY one can realize how mail this re-
ceptacle il If she remembers the very
small bottle which comes when she
orders an ounce of fluid at the drug
store. It Is a mystery why a woman
will insist upon trying to make b poor
baby's stomach, day after day, hold
any amount Of milk which the baby
may swallow tf nursed every fifteen
minutes. This constant nursing over
distends the stomach and causes fer
mentation, vomiting and collie. The
baby cries with the collie, and instead
of giving the tiny little stomach a
chance to rest the mother returns 1t to
the breast and wonders why the baby
will not nurse, or, II it does so, won
ders why 1t cries harder than ever.
If mothers would only learn that the
frequent musings only make matters
worse and that often when the baby
screams 1t has had too much food
Some babies are ~gluttons, and u the
milk flows easily they swallow too fast
or over1ll the stomach, and the result
Is that the stomach contracts forcibly
and the food Is elected. Babies who
vomit the milk almost unchanged as
soon as 1t is swallowed often have sim
ply eaten too fast
The mothers milk may be too rich,
and so the milk causes Indigestion, and
1t may be eructated In the form of a
cheesy mass which is quite undigested.
In case Of the mothers milk being too
rich the baby may be given a drink of
water from a bottle Immediately before
nursing, thus diluting the milk from
the mothers body. The mothers milk,
on the other hand, may be lacking In
amount, and the baby may have to
work very hard to get a very little
nourishment.
The mother should remember that
babies, like all other human beings, re
quire generous amounts of water. The
baby should have freshly boiled water
every day. At first it may be given In
a spoon, but later it may be put In a
bottle, preferably one with a wide
mouth and a large, fat nipple, and fed
directly from this. This has two adj
vantages, for 1t trains the baby to
drink the water and to drink from a
bottle.
The baby should be held during the
nursing period so that 1t gets the milk
readily and without strain to the
mother. For this reason the low foot
stool upon which the foot of the same
side that the baby is nursing may rest
Is the easiest, correct position. The Pc
Rod of nursing should not be dragged
out indefinitely. Keep the baby awake
while the meal is in progress and then
let him rest. Twenty minutes, ten for
each breast, Is desirable with a three
hourly feeding. Most babies win
thrive better If after the first three
months they are put on four-hourly
feelings. Many doctors begin earlier
than this. Remember always to wake
the baby when feeding time comes, be-
tween the hours of 6 in the morning
and 10 at night.