Evening star., 1932-03-02
Your Baby and Mine
BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED.
Orange Juice.

Orange Juice.
The Importance of adding orange
Juice to the diet of the bottle-fed baby
is not always understood by mothers.
They accept it as routine measure
in modern feeding but because they
know many adults who never received
orange juice in infancy, they consider
orange juice a fad without firm founda
ton.
Perhaps they may remember from
their school days the history of early
sailing expeditions on which sailors
were gone for long months, Subsisting
entirely on canned FOODS. The result
was that they developed scurvy, which
disappeared when they returned home
and were again able to procure fresh
foods
Some such thing may befall the baby
who Is fed entirely on canned foods.
The nursing baby runs no such risk, for
breast milk, popularity known as q
live" food, is we'll provided with fresh
elements. Boiled, .pasteuriZed. evap-
GRATED, dried or condensed milks lack
enough OF the fresh elements to make
any OF them unsafe without furnishing
baby either fresh orange juice or
canned tomato juice daily. Both orange
and tomato juices are richly supplied
with vitamin G, the fresh element that
prevents Scurvy.
Information about orange juice and
some other problems is sought by Mrs
P. She writes: My baby weighed
Az pounds at birth and now at 5 I,
months weighs l6 pounds. She is fed
on eyaporated milk. to which water
and sugar and one egg yolk are added
hsa 10 fad fntt, 10 nt n
O'Clock at night.
= 'tShe takes four or five tablespoonfuls
of farina daily, two to four table
spoonfuls of sieved vegetables and
apple, prune and banana pulp. I try
to give her orange or tomato juice, but
she spits it out. Does she have to
have it?
Occasionally she breaks out in a fine
rash, which lasts for few days and
goes away. What causes this and what
may be wrong with her food? She ap-
pears healthy. active and happy.
She refuses to sleep on her side and
wiggles over laughing. no matter how
many pillows I stuff behind her. The
back OF her head is quite fiat and
how can 1t round out when she refuses
to sleep except on her back?"
Her formula Is q good one. II she
refuses orange or tomato juice alone
put it with her formula. Start with
one teaspoonful Of orange juice in each
bottle and increase to two or three III
each bottle. 1t does not matter if the
milk curdles slightly.
! would omit the whole egg yolk
daily, for that is possibly the reason
for the rash. Babies are often Sensi-
tive to eggs. Instead, boil the egg
hard, pulverize only the yolk and use
one teaspoonful of it mixed with the
vegetables. Cooking any protein makes
it less irritating to children who are
peculiarly sensitive to it.
Overfeeding causes eczema, too. Your
baby has made a 12-pound gain in
! five months, which Is considerable for
any baby, even one with no weight
handicap at birth. You may have my
leaflets, "Evaporated Milk Formulas
and Feeding From Two to Twelve
Months" l shall be glad TO send them
to you or any other reader if you'll
inclose a self-addressed, stamped en-
velope with your request. Write to the
Your Baby and Mine" department in
care Of this newspaper. And don't
worry about baby's head All babies
have preferential positions and emerge
with heads shaped by heredity, not by
temporary sleeping positions