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HINTS ON THE FEEDING AND CARE OF INFANTS.
These hints are for healthy infants. By their use you may
save your infant nearly all ill-health.
Over 110,000 infants under one year old die in England and
Wales every year.
Suckle the child yourself if possible. It will then have twice
the chance of living.
Live healthily while "carrying"; you will then have a healthy
child.
Live healthily while suckling; you will then keep the child in
health.
Eat plenty of plain food. It is far better to drink milk than
stout, beer, or spirits.
Continue taking gruel at least once a day while nursing.
The quality as well as the quantity of milk must be kept up.
Feeding.
Put the infant to the breast every four hours until the milk
comes in. For first forty-eight hours give it nothing besides the
breast but warm sweetened water.
Suckle for ten months if sufficient milk, and wait for cool
weather before weaning.
Give cows' milk and water as well if breast milk is insufficient.
"Infants' foods" are expensive, and seldom are necessary.
The first four teeth are Nature's sign that more than milk is
required.
No potatoes for a year; no meat for eighteen months.
Give nothing but mother's milk for seven months.
Always feed regularly every two hours at first; never in a
hurry; never between times; never, after the first month, between 11
at night and 5 in the morning.
Do not rock the baby after feeding; raise its head and
shoulders to bring up the wind.