Omaha daily bee., 1922-05-26

As the hot weather approaches
We again call attention OF mothers
10 the adyanlass Of breast feeding,
Year By year cows milk becomes
safer. II is true the cows get
farther from the babies every year.
but pasleurisation is coming into
such general use that the loss 10
compensated, We learn that by Civ
ing orange Juice and tomato juice.
and sometimes vegetables, We can
feed babies with dried milk and
some baby foods with safety,
All Of this is true, but COWS milk,
condensed milk, baby food and milk
powders are stiii far from being In
the class with breast milk,
The mother who wesns her baby
makes trouble for herself
The danger Of diarrhea 10 quad.
rnpled, What 10 the trouble of
breast feeding compared with the
trouble of nursing a baby through
case Of severe dlafrhea?
II a mother feels that she must
get away from home for a few days.
why not learn TO give one supple
mental feeding a day OF milk pow
der or baby food or diluted cows
milk? II the baby is on a four-hour
schedule. that plan permits her TO
stay away about eight hours. and no
lecture by Conan Doyle on the spirit
world lasts that long.
There are dozen advances in
information that play "a scientific
foundation for tho recognized su-
periorlty OF breast milk,
There are the studies OF the hac-
terra and fermentation acids of
babies stools. made by Brown and
Posworth. These show that babies
fed on breast milk have stools rich
IN certain bacillus which is found
In mothers milk and on the skin
Of the mothers milk. This bacillus
makes acids which fit IN we'll in the
scheme OF things in the digestive
tract OF baby.
Babies fed on cows milk have
stools rich in bacilli. These bacilli
and their products are less whole
some for the human animal than
are those found in human milk.
IL n baby Ia fed cows milk for a
few days and then changed back
TO the breast milk. IL will be several
weeks before the stools cease to
contain the germs derived from
cows milk In quantity.
There is this exception: II new
ly born baby Is put on diluted cows
milk for the few days before the
mothers milk comes, and then put
at the breast. the cows milk germs
speedily disappear.
Then there is the long and we'll
known fact that, by reason OF a
slight difference in chemistry, the
curd of cows milk in baby's
stomach is large and may cause
obstruction. That of breast milk is
small and easily broken up.
Recent discoveries along another
line prove other benefits OF breast
milk.
Except in the spring and early
summer, cows milk is very poor in
anti-scorbutic vitamine. A mother,
by eating fresh meat, fresh vege-
tables and fruit supplies her breast
fed baby with proper vitamines at
all seasons.
Breast fed babies are immune to
measles and some other forms OF
infection. This is supposed to be
because the mothers blood con-
tains substances which protect her,
and these substances are passed on
through her milk to her baby.
The statistics. regardless OF who
gathers them or where they are
gathered, always show that breast
fed babies have the lower death
rates and the lower sickness rates
Doctors disagree on nearly every
other subject, but they are a unit on
that.
These citations are merely some
scientific reasons for a fact which
all people believe and which sta
| tistics prove.
Keep these two facts sharply in
mind:
/. Sick babies mean trouble to
mothers.
O. In breast feeding the baby gets
| to the teat.