Evening star., 1932-07-11
Your Baby and Mine
BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED.
Feeding Arrangement.

n EAIS for the infant should be
M spaced at intervals Of not less
han fhr hEs Tsi hGnes mesns ana hat s hs
additional food suitable to each
meal shall be served with the bottle or
breast feeding, so that those intervals
shall be preserved.
The practice of giving the baby bot
tie at am, let us say, then serving
of cereal at $50 am, and another
bottle feeding at IL O'Clock results in
feeding the baby every two and one
half hours
The same thing happens when the
mother nurses her baby at the regular
| intervals and then offers compile
mentary bottle between musings. In
this case the baby is being fed every
| one and one-half or every two hours,
depending upon which interval the
mother thinks she is using. When as
a result of these practices the baby
loses his appetite or suffers from indl-
gestion, the mother is utterly unable to
account for it.
Mrs. j. B. OR. asks help for her
baby, who is being both breast and bot
| tie fed MY baby is 5 months old and
I am using the feeding leaflet you sent
me-" says this mother. 1.-The trouble Is
she will only accept about one spoonful
of orange juice and one tablespoonful OF
| farina or rolled oats. She weighs 10
pounds I have been nursing her, but
this last week she fights the breast, so
that I started bottle feeding. I gave
| her ounces of milk, 2 Of water and
one tablespoonful of corn sirup, and
| she gets three of these daily and the
breast in between bottles Shall wean
her entirely, and how shall I prepare
the bottle formula? How can get her
| to eat? Our COW will go dry this Sum-
mer. Shall buy milk then or not?
have no ice box, but just a water cooler.
Is that all right to keep milk IN this
Summer? 1 surely appreciate your COL
umn daily"
1t is just possible that you have not
explained this clearly and that you are
giving three bottles and three musings
! at four-hour intervals In the event
that you do retain the musings for a
while longer, the breast should be Of
fered first at each regular nursing pc
| Rod and then the feeding finished with
bottle formula. My leaflet Formulas
for Complementary Feedings" covers
this in great detail Please send me a
self-addressed, stamped envelope for a
copy. If the baby isn't satisfied or
gaining on Complementary formulas
SOLlJlCIC lllC NCu4lAiiS oAiA OAiSi a AuAi
formula for the day You will find my
leaflets Sweet Mix Formulas" and
''Evaporated Milk Formulas" helpful on
that question.
Offer the solid food first then the
bottle. II four hours elapSe between
feelings. the baby should be hungry
enough to accept larger amount of
solid food though two tabiespoonfuls Of
cereal twice daily Is all right for the
baby this age.
Naturally you will have to buy milk
If the COW goes dry. You can purchase
dried or evaporated milk for baby'S use
this Summer. Then you may be GER
tain that your lack Of ice will not cause
milk to spoil. Use small cans of evapo-
rated milk and open them as needed
Dried milk can be kept in your cooler
and the requisite number of tablespoon
fulS mixed with boiled water at feeding
time. Either type of milk is satisfac-
tory if you give sufficient orange juice
or tomato juice to supply the vitamin
c element that is materially diminished
in all cooked or canned nlilks.