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Referred to special department with recommendation to supplement
feeds with a cow's milk mixture, if breast milk not sufficient.
Test weighing showed 1J ozs. only obtained in the first three feeds.
The child was feverish and able to digest extremely little. Improvement
was slow. Average feed rose to 2 ozs. in one week, 3 ozs. in another
fortnight and 4 ozs. three weeks later. Thereafter progress was rapid
W.B.
on a diet of breast milk only. This was one of the cases where the failure
of breast nursing was due to the infant's difficulty in extracting the milk-
Attendance—10 weeks.
W. B.—Third-born male child. First attendance at 9 weeks.
Weight 8 lbs. 1 oz. Birth weight thought to have been 9 lbs. Breastfeeding
irregular and frequent. Instructions produced no improvement-