Household Discoveries and Mrs. Curtis's Cook Book

Household Discoveries and Mrs. Curtis's Cook Book, (c)1914 — the great household encyclopedia: cleaning, curing, building, baby care, and a whole cookbook bound in.

The Care of Babies

38 pages in this part of Household Discoveries and Mrs. Curtis's Cook Book.

The Care of Babies (II)

During pregnancy and especially in the latter months, the expectant mother must have abundant rest and spare herself as much as possible.

The Care of Babies: Exercise

Exercise. Exercise in the open air in the form of walks should be taken throughout the entire course of pregnancy. Violent exercise in any…

The Care of Babies: Work

Work. The expectant mother may do her usual work, but should not work hard enough to get very tired.

The Care of Babies: Don't

Whenever it cries or is fretful, don't offer it food, but give it water. Be sure that it gets sleep and at least two naps during the day…

The Care of Babies: Keep

More babies are made sick by being wrapped up too warmly, especially in summer or in hot climates, than by taking cold. Babies feel the…

The Care of Babies: Remove

Remove nearly all the clothing and give a sponge bath every two or three hours. If the baby breaks out with nettle rash or "prickly heat"…

The Care of Babies: Diapers

The Diapers.-Use great care in the selection of the baby's diapers at all times, and especially during the summer months when it is so easy…

The Care of Babies: Bathing

Bathing. Give the baby a tub bath every morning, preferably at a certain regular hour. A clean baby is happier and healthier than a dirty…

The Care of Babies: Take

Take good care of the baby's skin.

The Care of Babies: Never

Never use cover Never put a baby to sleep on a feather pillow or lay it on a rubber cloth or oil cloth upon a bed. Such beds overheat the…

The Care of Babies: Mothers

Breast-fed babies often vomit have diarrhœa because the mother is sick or tired out, or because the milk is poor. Causes which weaken the…

The Care of Babies: Nursing

Nursing mothers should therefore keep themselves well and their milk in good condition, by eating at regular hours three plain, well-cooked…

The Care of Babies: Drink

Drink plenty of pure water and good rich milk. A quart or more of milk a day may often be taken to advantage. The diet may be varied by the…

The Care of Babies: Milk

Also avoid saline purgatives (salts) they are highly injurious. Quality of Mother's Milk. If the breast milk is plentiful and of good…

The Care of Babies: Sometimes

When to Nurse. - The mother's milk does not always come immediately after the birth of the child. Sometimes it is unusually late in coming…

The Care of Babies: Right

Right, 5 A. M.; Left, 7 A. M.; Right, 9 A. M.; Left, 11 A. M.; Right, 1 P. M.; Left, 3 P. M.; Right, 5 P. M.; Left, 7 P. M.; Right, 9 P…

The Care of Babies: Brush

Boil the nipple at least once daily for twenty minutes while the milk bottles are being boiled. Rinse the nip- (a) Brush a M C (a) Brush…

The Care of Babies: Hence

Hence, a wet nurse should never be hired unless she is known to be reliable and of good moral character and is pronounced by a competent…

The Care of Babies: Water

MATERIALS FOR MILK MODIFI- CATION Water. The purity of water with which infants' food is diluted is equally as important as the purity of…

The Care of Babies: Barley

Barley Water. This is often used in diluting milk for infant feeding to make the curds of milk more easily digestible. Barley flour * is…

The Care of Babies: Strain

A prominent physician of northern Illinois, who has been practicing for thirty-two years, says: "My food for babies is invariably one…

The Care of Babies: Cover

Oatmeal Water. - This is used in the same way as barley water, especially if a laxative effect is desired. To make it, stir two…

The Care of Babies: Bring

Put the water to be used in mixing the food on the fire in a covered saucepan. Bring it to a boil and keep it, until ready for use, in the…

The Care of Babies: Hours

AGE Hours between feeding Number of feedings in 24 hours Ounces to each feeding Ounces in 24 hours and 7 A. M. 3rd to 7th day. 2 2 10 1-1…

The Care of Babies: Loss

Loss of weight is a danger signal which must not be ignored. If your baby does not gain weight every week consult your doctor and be guided…

The Care of Babies: Illinois

When the stools are unnatural in character or more frequent than four a day, a physician should be promptly called. - Milk Mixtures. - The…

The Care of Babies: Enough

Enough hot * water to make 20 ounces. of upper third milk (10% fat).

The Care of Babies: Dissolve

Dissolve the sugar in the boiling water and then add the milk and lime water. Keep in a cool place.

The Care of Babies: Horlick

Horlick's, Borden's (malted) milk, and Mellin's are examples of the second class, and Eskay's of the third. None of these foods contain…

The Care of Babies: Food

Eskay's Food, according to the manufacturers, contains the more easily digested cereals combined with egg albumen.

The Care of Babies: Whey

Whey.-Warm one pint of milk to blood heat and add one teaspoonful of essence of pepsin or one junket tablet. Let stand until it jellies…

The Care of Babies: Home

Home Pasteurization of Milk.- Pasteur, the French chemist (whose name has become a household word from his discovery of a treatment which…

The Care of Babies: Pasteurization

Pasteurization, if the milk is afterwards kept clean until used, will certainly eliminate all danger of diarrhœal or other intestinal…

The Care of Babies: Sterilization

Sterilization of Milk. - Pasteurization is always to be preferred over sterilization, provided milk can afterwards be kept clean and cold…

The Care of Babies: Carefully

To test milk for dirt place a goodsized button in the bottom of an ordinary tin funnel and upon this a piece of dampened absorbent cotton…

The Care of Babies: Courtesy

On the cover of the box nail about fifty layers of newspaper. Set the -T C Horizontal section of homemade milk refrigerator; M, milk…

The Care of Babies: Place

Now put three inches of sawdust in the bottom. Place two pails in this sawdust one inside of the other and fill the space between the inner…

The Care of Babies: Line

Or, to make a still cheaper ice box, get a large soap box from your grocer and another box about half as large. Line the smaller box with…

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