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For a Baby between Two and Four Months old.
Milk, 3 table-spoonfuls, gradually increasing to 4; water, 3
table-spoonfuls, gradually increasing to 4. Mix and warm. Give
this every three hours during the day and once at night.
For a Baby between Four and Six Months old.
Milk, 5 table-spoonfuls, gradually increasing to 8; water, 5
table-spoonfuls, gradually decreasing to 4. Mix and warm. Give
this every three hours during the day and once at night.
For a Baby between Six and Nine Months old.
Milk, 9 table-spoonfuls, gradually increasing to 11; water, 3
table-spoonfuls. Mix and warm. Give this every three hours in
the day and once at night.
A tea-spoonful of cream, and a tea-spoonful of sugar (a small
tea-spoonful of sugar when baby is under two months old) should
be put into each meal before warming. All water which you intend
to mix with the milk must be boiled first.
Each meal should take about fifteen minutes.
When the baby is nine months old the milk may be given
without anything being added, and the number of table-spoonfuls
in each meal may be increased from 14 to 16.
The food must be freshly prepared for each meal, and if any of
the meal is left it must not be given again to the baby. But it need
not be wasted; give it to the older children.
Carefully wash the bottle and teat with hot water after each
meal. Turn the teat inside out and hold it under the tap, and then
keep it in clean water.
Keep the bottle, teat, and all the things for holding the milk,
cream, and sugar, perfectly clean.
In hot weather the baby may sometimes cry because he is
thirsty. If it is not time for feeding, give a tea-spoonful or two of
water which has been boiled and cooled.
Never let the baby suck a dummy teat. It may upset the baby's
digestion, and cause diarrhoea, besides being harmful in other ways
Unless ordered by a doctor, never give your baby skimmed or
separated milk, condensed milk, patent foods, or medicine of any
kind.
N.B.—These directions are not intended to apply to those babies
who are ordered a special diet by a doctor.
clothing.
The baby must always be kept warm. The underclothing should
be of woollen, or flannel, and it must not be tight. Only one binder
is needed. It must be of flannel, not linen, and it must never be
tight.