The daily Alaskan., 1917-06-04
HOW TO FEED BABY
Especially Natural Feeding, the
 Ideal Way.
THE BEST OF SUSTENANCE.

Human MIX Was Intended For Babies,
 and the Next Best Substitute cow'0 MIX, Wao Designed For stOmaohS
 That Can Pasa Tough Curds.
 rPrepared by Ohio state department or health.l
 That human milk is the ideal food for babies Is an accepted fact, but there may be too much even of this diet for the baby. The baby should have its milk regularly, out 1t should h we long hours of rest between feed lugs. A baby's stomach holds one ounce at birth and three ounces at one month Any one can realize how small this re- ceptacle Is 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 the poor baby's stomach, day after day, hold any amount of milk which the baby may swallow if nursed every fifteen minutes. This constant nursing over distends the stomach and causes fer mentatiOn, vomiting and collc. The baby cries with the collie, and instead of giving the tiny little stomach chance to rest the mother returns 1t to the breast and wonders why the baby will not nurse, or, if 1t 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 If the milk flows easily they swallow too fast or Oyeriill 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 tho milk causes indigestion, and it may be eructatcd ill the form of a chCeSy mass which Is quite undigested. h 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 nOuriShmCnL
 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 q large, fat nipple, and fed directly from this. This has two Nd- yantages, for 1t trains the baby to drink the water and to drink from bottle.
 The baby should be held during the nursing period so that it gets the milk readily and without strain to the mother. For this reason the low foot stool upon which tue foot of the same side that the baby Is nursing may rest Is the easiest. correct position. The pe- riod 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 q thrpc- hourly feeding. Most babies will thrive better if after the first three months they are put on four-hour.y feedings. Many doctors begin earlier than this. Remember always to wake the baby when feeding time comes, be. tween the hours of in the morning and 10 at night.