HOME HEALTH GUIDE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 38, 11 January 1946, Page 3

HOME HEALTH GUIDE

TRAVELLING WITH BABY (By the Department of Health). Are you planning a holiday that means a long train or service car trip with baby and toddler? You know that accommodation is going to be. very limited and that every

train and bus will be crowded. You will be squeezed out from refreshment counters and won’t be able to get hot boiled water as. wanted. You’ll want to think twice about taking your baby into such a crowd,ed uncomfortable place as a train or service car. And having thought twice you'd better decide to stay home unless your trip is absolutely necessary.

But suppose you can’t avoid it and must travel. You should write out a lisL of baby’s requirements—food, clothes and utensils. If baby is not breast fed, you may have trouble in getting milk. Dried milk will do hut baby will need, to be on this some days before travelling and your doctor or Plunket Nurse will help about feeding tables. You’ll have to carry sterilised bottles and enough sterile teats for the number of feeds needed. You’ll need a vacuum llask, containing boiled water with or without sugar, as desired, and a

funnel for filling bottles. This way you can he independent of fresh milk and the hot water from the vacuum flask, added to the dried milk, will probably be about right temperature for baby. Don’t try to carry milk warm in vacuum flasks over long journeys. You will need a bottle of boiled water for drinking.

For the toddler pack sandwiches, fruit and drink—you’ll lie much wiser to do this than trust to snatching something at railway refreshment counters. He’ll get tired on a long trip so you’ll need carefully chosen toys—crayons or pencil and paper, story book or familiar toy. It’s only by much forethought that you’ll make holiday travelling with baby and toddler painless and not upsetting to yourself and child,ren. Better to patronise local beaches and avoid crowded travel, if you can.