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Prepare each meal in the following manner:—
For a Baby undeb Two Weeks Old.
Milk, 1 tablespoonful; water, 2 tablespoonfuls. Mix and warm.
Give this to the baby every two hours in the day.
Fob a Baby from a Fortnight to One Month Old.
Milk li tablespoonfuls, gradually increasing to 3
Water, 3 tablespoonfuls. Mix and warm.
Give this to the baby every two hours.
For a Baby from One to Two Months Old.
Give the same feed every two and a half hours.
For a Baby between Two and Four Months Old.
Milk, 3 tablespoonfuls, gradually increasing to 4.
Water, 3 tablespoonfuls, gradually increasing to 4. Mix and warm.
Give this every three hours during the day.
For a Baby between Four and Six Months Old.
Milk, 5 tablespoonfuls, gradually increasing to 8.
Water, 5 tablespoonfuls, gradually decreasing to 4. Mix and warm.
Give this every three hours during the day.
For a Baby between Six and Nine Months Old.
Milk, 9 tablespoonfuls, gradually increasing to 11.
Water, 3 tablespoonfuls. Mix and warm.
Give this every three hours during the day.
Use water which has been boiled to mix with the milk, and add a teaspoonful
of sugar to each meal. At nine months the milk may be given
without any water added, and the number of tablespoonfuls in each meal
increased from 14 to 10.
Thin barley water may be used instead of water.
Never keep food over in the bottle for the next meal.
At twelve months the milk may be thickened with cornflour, and some
broth or beef tea given. The child may also have bread and milk, porridge,
and milk puddings.
Children require plenty of milk until the age of three years, as they
cannot digest the same food as grown-up persons. After eighteen months
they may also have fresh fish, gravy and bread-crumbs or eggs, etc., once a day.
GENERAL DIRECTIONS.
Never give a baby a comforter or dummy teat to suck. They are a
fruitful source of wind in the bowels and griping.
Do not give baby teething powders, sleeping draughts or soothing syrups.
Eyes.
As soon as the baby is born, the eyelids and about the eyes should
be carefully cleansed and washed. If the eyes run with matter and look