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"The mothers of the "rather better-class" are usually much
interested in everything connected with baby's welfare, and listen
most attentively to all instructions. A second visit shows that
many of the suggestions have been adopted.
"The idea of a cold bath is usually received with consternation,
but in those cases where it has been tried the mothers are very
pleased with the result.
"Tube bottles are one of the greatest stumbling-blocks, the
excuse given for their use as a rule being the extra expense
incurred by using the others; but the real reason is the fact that
the child can feed from them without assistance. In some cases
boat-bottles are used in the daytime and the tube at night, as the
mothers object to sitting up long enough to feed the child from a
boat-bottle. With regard to the extra cost of boat-bottles, I
have suggested the use of a soda water bottle with a large
teat in preference to a tube, as being more readily cleansed, easily
procured and generally less objectionable. These in some cases
have been adopted.
"Many mothers who could feed their children naturally do
not, either on account of going out to work or because breast-feeding
the infant would tie them down too much.
"Hand-feeding is often adopted as the breast does not appear
to satisfy the infant."