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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.

Give the baby 2 ounces every 2 hours during the day and once at night. In all 10 feedings. Add a little more milk to the whole mixture every few days and give the baby a little more in each bottle.

One Month to Three Months.- Milk, 12 ounces; lime water, 14 ounces; boiled water, 24 ounces; milk sugar, 1½ tablespoons.

Dissolve the sugar in the boiling water and then add the milk and lime water. Keep in a cool place. Give the baby 3 ounces every 2 hours during the day and once at night.

Ten feedings. Add a little more milk to the whole mixture every few days and give the baby a little more in each bottle.

Three Months to Six Months.- Milk, 1 pint; lime water, 2 ounces; boiled water, 1½ pints; milk sugar, 2 tablespoons.

Dissolve the sugar in the boiled water and then add the milk and lime the baby 5 ounces every 24 hours water. Keep in a cool place. Give during the day and once at night.

Eight feedings. Add a little more milk to the whole mixture every few days and give the baby a little more in each bottle.

Six Months to Ten Months.-Milk, 1½ pints; lime water, 2 ounces; tablespoons. boiled water, 1½ pints; milk sugar, 2 Dissolve the sugar in the boiled water and then add the milk and lime water. Keep in a cool place. Give the baby 6 or 7 ounces or about 1 cupful every 3 hours during the day.

THE CARE OF BABIES Seven feedings. Every few days put 1 tablespoon less water and 1 tablespoon more milk into this mixture. Use of Barley Water and Oatmeal Water. Some authorities recommend the use of barley water from birth in place of the plain water used for the dilution of infants' food in the above mixtures, and in the same proportions. But others who have made a special study of feeding infants, think that the use of barley water or oatmeal water is not advisable until after six months of age. The use of barley water has been found, in practice, to enable some young infants to digest the curds of milk who would otherwise have been unable to do so.

But as a rule it is probable that these cereal waters are not required until after the sixth or seventh month. They should not be fed to very young infants except under the direction of a physician.

The late Prof. A. Jacoby of New York, an author of international reputation, stated that if he were restricted to the use of any one food in addition to cow's milk, it would be barley meal or oatmeal water, and that he preferred barley water to oatmeal water for a steady diet because the latter tends to relax the bowels. Hence after the sixth or seventh month use barley water to dilute the baby's food in place of plain water unless you find from experience that it does not agree with your child.

When the infant is constipated, substitute oatmeal water for the barley water. As the barley water is added the amount of sugar should be reduced.

ARTIFICIAL FOODS Condensed Milk for Infants. - Condensed milk is the artificial food most commonly used, especially among the poor, but is not easily digestible especially by very young and frail infants. Its effects are not satisfactory. It contains too much sugar and not enough fat. Babies fed on condensed milk alone are often fat but seldom strong. A fat baby is not always a healthy baby.

Practically every baby raised on condensed milk alone shows signs of rickets or other disease. It may serve a good purpose when traveling or at other times of emergency when pure, fresh milk cannot be secured. Between dirty, impure and stale cow's milk and condensed milk, choose the latter. When traveling or when the milk supply fails, condensed milk may be used to tide the infant over a period of danger, but do not use it any longer than is really necessary.

It should never be used without the addition of fats-fresh cream if possible. Or, if good cream cannot be had, give cod liver oil at the rate of five to twenty drops at each feeding.

If you use condensed milk get the best that can be had. Borden's Eagle Brand is known to be well prepared and reliable.

Manufactured Foods. - Do not be misled by the statements of any manufacturer of condensed milk or other artificial food that his product is a perfect substitute for mother's milk.

All such statements are false. There is no perfect substitute for mother's milk, nor is there any artificial food that is equally as good as pure fresh cow's milk properly modified. The most commonly used foods upon the market may be classed as milk foods, malted foods and farinaceous foods.