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BREAST FEEDING.
Advice to Mothers.- Keep yourself in good health. The health:
of your baby depends upon your own during pregnancy.
Take good and wholesome food at regular meals only. Do not
take spirits, beer, stout, or much tea, but rather milk or cocoa. See
that your bowels act every day. When possible take exercise in he
open air every day, and keep your window open night and day.
1. Feed your Baby regularly, by the Clock, and not by
Guesswork or whenever it Cries. Babies get indigestion, feel
uncomfortable, and cry if they are not fed at regular times.
2. Never give your Baby a Dummy Teat. It is simply a bad
habit, and dirty and dangerous.
3. As babies sometimes cry because they are thirsty, sips of warm
water may be given.
Breast Feeding. Mother's Milk is the Best, Cheapest, and
Safest Food for Infants.
1. Get your baby into good and regular habits of feeding. Babiesform
bad habits just as easily as grown-up people.
2. Keep the Child at the breast about ¼ hour at each feed.
3. Do not feed more often than every two hours during the day,
and once between 11 at night and 6 in the morning. Never let the
baby feed too fast. Wake the baby if asleep at feeding times.
The time between feeds should be gradually increased until by the
beginning of the third month the breast is given every three hours, and
at the age of six months, five times in the day and not at all between
11 at night and 6 in the morning. The best times are 6 a.m., 10 a.m.,
2 p.m., 6 p.m., and at 10 p.m. In this way the mother gets a rest at
night, and so does the baby's stomach.