Evening star., 1949-07-24
EATING PROBLEM:
TEL ,EPHONE ADVERTISING.


TELEPHONE ADVERTISING.
From Mrs. H. P. A., CheDy ChaSeJ
In reply to Mrs. E. H. D., Wash
ington. I am in agreement with
your pediatrician in her handling
of your eating problem. Our g.
year-old daughter stopped eating
we'll at about 2 years and we
found the best thing to do was
offer her teaSpoon-Sized portions
of her regular diet, and remove it
without comment when the adults
had finished their meal, If she
hadn't eaten it by then. Urging
her only made matters worse.
She ate very little for almost two
years, but was healthy, and now
has a fine normal appetite and
normal weight for her age.
In reply to Mrs. V. c., Arling-
ton: The telephone advertising
stunt makes me very angry also,
as do the radio-listener surveys
made by the phone. AS you said.
it is q very great inconvenience to
be interrupted in the midst of &C
tivities necessary to the care OF
young children.
(From Mrs. J. o. S.. ChntonJ
MY son, who is now, started
out wonderfully when it came to
strained, chopped, and food such
as we eat, until about l to 1l2
years ago. I never forced him to
eat. When I changed him from
bottle to glass, he, too, cut down
on milk. I asked my doctor, who
said not to force him and some
day he'd surprise me by wanting
more and eating everything. In
February Of this year my aunt
gave me a baby book. I don't
usually follow baby books. but this
one, your Baby" by Gladys
Denny Shultz and Lee Forrest
Hill, M. D., explained about the
child's appetite falling of. de-
cided to fix up the milk myself. I
sometimes use the chocolate sirup
that begins with H and sometimes
use about l teaspoon vanilla and
teaspoon sugar. 1t works Won
derfully. To make matters worse,
while my son was visiting his
grandmother in New York he de-
veloped an allergy to eggs. He
loves all fruits and tomatoes. so
I buy as much fruit as possible
to make up for the other foods he
won't eat.
Have you tried making eating
fun? Have you let your son eat
when you do? I found that helps
little, too. Also only giving the
child very small servings at a
time and letting him ask for
more? My son weighed 6 pounds
AZ ounces at birth compared to-
his 271a pounds at 2 years. He is
little chubby now.
(Fron, Mrs. M. L., KenSinotonJ
I have the same problem of my
1-year-old girl eating about one
half of the food she should. When
she was about 10 months old she
refused all the baby foods, even
the chopped variations. 1t worried
me, too. She wouldn't even eat
the egg. Now I have stopped buy
ing baby food. cook beef stew
with potatoes and carrots and
have the meat ground. so she can
chew it. I feed her mostly what
we eat, but of course use judg-
ment about the too-greasy and
hard -to-digest foods. I know
some people would frown on some
OF the things I give her, but it
never made her sick, and have
to get some food in her. I even
put a spoon filled of gravy very
little grease and lots of milk over
her mashed potatoes and she eats
them. She still doesn't like vege-
tables. I gave her fresh fruits like
we eat and scraped apples instead
of the apple sauce and strained
fruits. Before she goes to bed.
give her a small glass of milk
and a cracker.
She still doesn't eat all that she
should but this way of feeding her
has helped me.
I went through the same prob
lem with my older child. but her
appetite picked up a lot when the
weather got cooler.
I really don't see how any little
stomach could hold all the food
that Is listed on doctors charts