Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1961-05-12
Feed The Baby
With A Smile
BY CECILY BROWNSTONE
Associated Press Food Editor

ASsOthttu IECNs EOuu EuitUT
CERTAIN RULES about feeding
youngsters should be practiced in
babylon.
The good humor with which
food is offered affects Baby just as
it does toddles and Sabotage chill
dren.
If you're a new mother, don't
try to settle the worlds most trou-
blesome problems while you are
giving your young on his cereal
or spinach. Better enjoy that small
personality while you're feeding
him this way Baby will have the
best chance of enjoying his meal.
Conversation and food just nat
urally go together. No young moth
er need feel self-conscious about
talking happily to her baby while
she's feeding him. He'll appreciate
the pleasant sounds even though
he's not hep to the word, and he'll
respond in mis- own inimitabl way.
Don't force food is another rule
Nowadays most babies get their
first tastes of solid food when they
are three to four months old. While
this Introduction is going on. both
Baby and Mother need to take il
easy.
In this period Baby has to make
startling adjustment. Up to now
he's taken in liquid food by suck
ing. Now he's going to learn to
swallow solid food. This is an en-
tirely new experience. in addition
both the taste and consistency of
solid foods are different from what
yOungster has known up to now
The first solids should be finely
strained smooth food mixed with
milk TO help them go down easily
When you introduce new solid
foods to a baby or toddler, offer
small taste first, then gradually
increase the amount. Youngsters
are great skeptics about the un-
familiar, they need time to make
friends with new foods.
Children's appetites, like those of
an adults. sometimes vary from day
to day. Why shouldn't they? So
don't expect your baby or preschoOl
er to eat absolutely every drop of
food at every feeding time or meal
with unchanging enthusiasm. Fore
ing food produces nothing more
than rebellion. A youngster may
take a little less than his quota
one day, little more the next It's
the overall intake that counts.
Babies like to eat the same foods
over and over again. and mothers
expect this. Don't be surprised if
your toddler goes on a jag and
insists on eating one particular food
to the exclusion of almost all others
If no emphasis is placed on such
sudden passions. usually they run
nbried courses.
Some children are cautious eat
ers. some the adventurous type.
Don't ask them to do quick change
overs. BY introducing a variety of
new foods slowly, you'll held the
timouous characters develop more
sophisticated tastes. and you r e
bound to please the Adventures.
Among the new foods ready for
babies and toddlers is. ham with
vegetables and cereal, designed to
provide valuable protein in a form
children like In the juice line also.
Baby gets a break: there's a new
apple-cherry jucie with vitamin G
added Now, too. cereal comes blen-
ded with fruit: Baby can have his
choice of strained oatmeal or mix
ed cereal with applesauce and BAN
anas. Babies old enough to MUNICH
can be treated to the new animal
shaped cookies made with nutriti-
Gus soy flour and non-fat milk.
solids and Boosting a topping con-
tanning B vitamins.