How to feed the baby to make it healthy and happy with health hints.

  • Page, Charles Edward, 1840-1925.
Date:
[1882]
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Credit: How to feed the baby to make it healthy and happy with health hints. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    ened in the morning; for she had observed that, since she had left off giving the bottle after 7 P.M., he awoke happy after his night's rest, and remained so until after feeding commenced for the day. She offered a certain quantity of food, and no more, at this breakfast at 8 o'clock A.M., nothing more till 2 o'clock P.M., when the same quantity was offered and taken with a keen appetite, although there had been no fussing or demand for nourishment during the six hours' interval. At 7 she gave a very small drink of milk, and soon after put him to bed wide awake, where, after a little cooing and playing, he went off to sleep, which continued uninterruptedly until about 6 in the morning. She has never had occasion to re- gret the change from unsystematic feeding to this method of regular and infrequent meals. She very wisely says that another time she should begin right, and nurse or feed but three times a day. The boy (and he is a lusty, springy, muscular little fellow as any one could wish to see), now at eleven months, has a common tea-cup full of plain wheat- meal bread and milk at 8, the same at 2, and about half a cup of clear milk at evening, and no other food or drink during the day. He is twenty-nine inches tall, is growing finely, and shows plainly that he is a well-fed babe. A young couple at Hadley, N. Y., whose infant boy had been a constant sufferer with colic during his seven months of life, and had by his sleeplessness at night caused them endless trouble and anxiety, al- though fed on the three-hour system, were induced