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4. Diet or Infant during the First Month. —Mix half-a-pint
of boiled fresh milk and one pint of boiled water, to which add a
teaspoonful of powdered white sugar. Of this mixture three tablespoonfuls
should be given every two hours during the day, and
every four hours during the night.
Diet during the Second Month.—Mix three-quarters of a pint
of boiled milk and one pint of boiled water with a teaspoonful
sugar. Of this mixture five tablespoonfuls should be given every
two hours.
Diet during the Third Month.—Mix one pint of boiled milk
and one pint of boiled water to which add the sugar. Of this
mixture eight tablespoonfuls should be given every three hours.
Diet from Three to Seven Months.—The strength of the
mixture may be increased until two pints of boiled milk are added
to one pint of boiled water. About eight tablespoonfuls should be
given at each meal.
Three tablespoonfuls of cream added to the daily quantity of milk
and water before it is boiled for each period before stated would
make the food much more nutritious.
The quantities above recommended for mixing are for a twentyfour
hours' supply, but it would be better to make half the quantity
every twelve hours in order to ensure its freshness.
5. Condensed milk may be given for a time if cow's milk
disagrees, but even the best kinds of condensed milk are unsuitable
as regular foods for Infants. Cow's milk if discontinued for a time
should be resumed again as soon as it can be borne. The kind
known as "Condensed Separated" Milk, or "Condensed Skim"
Milk should never be used as food for Infants. Children when fed
upon it quickly waste away.
6. The best feeding bottle to use is the old fashioned boat shaped
kind, with simply an India rubber teat and without any tube.
After each meal the bottle should be rinsed and placed in cold water
in which a little soda has been dissolved. On no account must the
milk that remains in the feeding bottle after the child has been fed
be used again.