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Weigh the baby at regular intervals.
Use purgatives only very rarely.
FEEDING.
A mother must be prepared to give herself up to her baby
for twelve months.
A mother must feed well. If she loses weight rapidly, has
night sweats or feels run down, she ought to consult a doctor
without any delay.
Breast feeding is the best.
Put the baby to the breast for five minutes every two hours
until the milk comes.
Feeding by breast and bottle combined is next best.
Mottle feeding alone should be given only when the mother
nas no milk or is in delicate health.
Where bottle feeding is employed, two bottles should be in
alternate use.
The bottles must be boat-shaped. Do not take the babv oft
the breast in August or September, or during hot weather, as fatal
diarrhoea is apt to set in.
The milk used must be fresh and clean.
A healthy baby will empty the breast in from 10 to 15 minutes.
When there is evidence that the baby is not thriving or that
its bones are becoming bent or its joints enlarged, a doctor should
be consulted at once.
Weaning should be gradual and the baby should not have the
breast after nine months if four teeth are cut, and in no case after
twelve months.
No solid food should be given a child until a'l its teeth have
been cut (usually at the age of two years).
Infants are unable to digest the food of grown up people.
It acts as a poison to them.