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Needs of infants.—Food, sleep, suitable clothing, cleanliness,
fresh air, tenderness in handling.
Signs of health.—Increase in weight, sleep, contentment,
satisfactory action of bowels.
Natural development of infant.—Increased powers of sight,
hearing, thinking. Appearance of the teeth, ability to
walk and talk.
Establishment of good habits.—Regularity in feeding, in
sleeping, and in obeying the calls of nature, in bathing,
teaching of self-control.
Evil results of mismanagement.—Fretfulness, indigestion,
thrush, skin disease, bronchitis, rickets, mouth breathing.
Show table of Average Weights.
LECTURE 2. FEEDING (1).
Infants' powers of digestion. Size of stomach. Human milk
the best food. How mother should procure good breast milk.
Second best method of feeding, breast milk and cows' milk alternately.
Why mother should not nurse at night only. No danger
in supplementing breast milk with cows' milk. Average quantities
of proteid, fat and sugar in human and cows' milk. How to
make latter resemble human milk. Advantage of barley water
over plain water. How to prepare barley water. Reason for
boiling milk and water. Loss of fat in mixture compared to
human milk, use of oil if required. Addition of sugar. The
bottle: how to clean: danger of dirt. Third method bottle
only.
LECTURE 3. FEEDING (2).
Frequency of feeding, need of regularity, quantity given at
each meal. Variation of mixture and increase of quantity at
various ages. Foods other than cows' milk. Dried milk—Condensed
milk: how they are prepared, their disadvantages. Patent
foods, their expense and uselessness. Bread and biscuits. Results
of, and want of fat and too early use of starchy foods.
LECTURE 4. CLOTHING.
Objects of clothing, warmth and decency, not support. Stiff
clothes no help to muscular development, nor preventive of evils
from bad handling. Need of reform in infants' clothing. Wool