The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-10-17
YOUNG CHILDREN.
The Care of Infants During the Cr'tica
Period.

The Care Df Infaufs During the Critical
period.
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less except in the charge OF an honest
painstaking and conscientious nurse,
whether mother or guardian. If in the
city or large town and cows milk is the
order. then give the baby preferably
mixed or milkman's milk. because there
is safety in numbers. While one cows
milk is considered pre-eminently the
best by most parents. the mixed milk is
practically more conducive to the child's
welfare, in that one COW may be con-
sumptiye, cancerous, or ill in many
ways; it may have abscess of the liver
or other organ, may have tumor, or an
irritable temper Ga COW being very hui
MANI. And though many in drove
may be below par in health and spirits.
some of them are undoubtedly well and
give rich and wholesome milk, sufficient
to leaven the whole, and thus nourish
and satisfy the baby. Boiling purifies
the milk, and makes it safer diet for
children. or raw milk may be
alternated with boiled, depend
ing upon the child's condition.
There is a long list of artificial
food, the first one experimental with
being generally the favored one in the
family. There seems too little differ
ence between them to choose. Con-
densed milk certainly makes the ma
jority of babies who try it thrive we'll
1t has this in its favor, it is the same in
its properties yesterday, to day and to-
morrow, and the most stupid or lazy
nurse could not err much in admins
tering it. Sameness is the one qualifi-
cation which baby insists upon in its
food and care and attendant. Change
in any of these, when once they are ac-
ceptable to the wee manikin, jars
severely upon its adaptabilitv and nerv-
Gus system, and soon the repeated
changes usher in disease, which may
become fatal. For the first few months
| the breast is sufficient, and the most
desirable if the mother is healthy and
well cared for, and she in turn is care
full of her diet and personal cleanliness.
and avoids all excitement of the emo
tons, whether of temper, sorrow or JOY.
| If not the mother, then a wet-nurse
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class in regard to health and habits.
| A new baby with no breast milk and
one in the second year are miserable
community regarding their chances for
life. These are the enfapts terribles
termed "bottle babies" The new baby
has really the better chance provided it
can be made to live comfortably five or
six months, by even a wooden-headed
nurse, because in that time the latter
may have Numbered into a way of
awakening some affinity between baby
and bottle. and so establishing an easy
time through teething. Whereas the
second year toothless baby may have to
eat too much grown-up food, or learn
to use the bottle in its declining
strength, whether by illness or starva-
ton or neglect or what not, and will
become sudden prey to its surround
ings, even in the midst of apparent
plenty. Many time when baby
seems to want milk, it is thirsty and
wants water. 1t should be offered
water several times day, hot or cold
| mo ice). A babv ia rarely i'll who has