Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-07
Your Baby and Mine
BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED.

The worries of each prospective
mother are practically the same. She,
poor dear, is always a prey to the
superstitions of the ages. She gives
little thought to these matters until
she finds herself about to become a
mother and then she Immediately
brings to the forefront of her mind
all the musty fears and superstitions
which have worried her mother and
her mother before her. At this time
when it Is natural for all normal
things to assume gigantic proportions,
these small fears fill her with real
terror and apprehension. Her great
est fear, to her credit be it said, is
not for herself but for her baby
What can she do to make it health.
full? What can she do to prevent
her fears marking" her child? These
are the heaviest burdens of her worry.
1t is useless sometimes to tell a
person not to worry. But there is
ordinarily nothing to worry about
The mother should fix in her mind
that she cannot change or alter her
child no matter what she does or
thinks.
All the mother can do is to keep
nerself at the topnotch of physical
condition. The mother who studies
music so that her child may be a
musician is employing her time to
good advantage, but giving no such
talent to the child.
III her baby Is musician, 1t is be-
cause 1t has a preponderance of arts
tic instincts from her ancestors, and
not because its mothers thoughts have
been directed that way for nine
months.
1t is much easier to make a must
clan out of the baby after its birth by
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Ing people and giving it the advan-
tages of a musical education.
In the same manner it is equally i'm
possible for a mother to harm her
child by her thoughts. There could
be nothing more absurd than to be-
lieve that the accidental sight OF a. hui
man monster or an accidental happen
ing would have the power to so upset
the mother that she would incidentally
mark her child's body.
How terrible and cruel this would
be for any one to feel that his body
had been so easily marred by what his
mother could in no way help.
Science has proved 1t untrue, and it
only remains for a person to grip ones
common sense tightly in hand and be-
lieve it, because it is sane and whole
some as well as scientific.
A child is the product of its ances-
| tors. II In the manifold duplication of
the single cell from which 1t springs
something goes wrong and the child 8
body carries a mark because of it.
this mark is no more to be blamed
upon its mothers thoughts than If a
| flower were to spring from the parent
stem with crooked leaf or a stunted
petal.
1t is always hard for persons to
tear down superstition, because com
mon sense is so much less exciting,
and there are always so many persons
to say, Remember little Johnny
Jones? The mark on his face was
caused when their barn took fire and
his mother touched her face" And
the tncomprehensible part of it Is that
SC many persons can believe such
bosh.
Mrs. M. d. III. writes: 81 could not
| nurse my baby for very long, and she
was put upon a canned food. Now /
would like to change her to cow milk
Gould you give me a formula suitable
for her age and weight? She weighs
Ia pounds and 6 ounces today, weigh
ing ia pounds at birth. She is very
strong and gets a. sunbath every
bright day and sleeps in the open as
much as possible. I always read your
duflCo ciI0 get 80 uluCdl H6lp IFOIn IL.
Answer-General formulas are con-
tanned in the leaflet on weaving and
feeding, which am sure would be of
help to you now. In order not to
make you wait for that. you can start
with Is ounces of milk, Is of boiled
water and three tablespoonfuls of
sugar. Put this into five bottles. You
can increase as fast as the baby's di.
gestion permits up to 81 ounces of
milk, proportionately less water and
the same amount of sugar.