Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-13
CARE OF THE BABY
IN SUMMER SEASON
WatchfuIness in Feeding Will Prevent
Many Complaints That Are often
Dangerous, Says Georgia state
Eoard of Health.

Atlanta, Ga.-No mother who feeds
her child properly, sees to it that the
food is pure and wholesome and
properly proportioned to the child's
age and condition, and who surrounds
it with proper hygienic conditions,
need fear the month of May about
which many have an unnecessary sup
erstition, nor the first summer nor the
second nor any other, regardless of
whether teeth are coming or not.
Neither the month of May nor the
entire summer need hold any terrors
for the careful, watchful mother
Teething is a perfectly natural, nor
NAL process, and any disorders attend
ing it are due, as rule. to improper
feeding or oyerfeeding of the child.
Here are some good rules for the
care of the baby, particularly in the
summer season, which are Endorsed by
the Georgia State Board of Health.
Feed your baby, if you can, from
your own milk. 1t was intended for
the baby and nothing will suit it as
well or do more to preserve. its health,
than the mothers milk
If the mother has no milk, if it is
unhealthy or if sickness of the child
requires other food follow closely
and carefully the advice of the doctor.
If the child is well and healthy, and
the mother cannot feed it, the best
obtainable food is modified cows milk
modified and prepared under the
physicians directions to suit the age
and condition of the child.
Danger in Overlooking.
Don't overfeed the child. The
amount of food should always be re-
duced in hot weather If on the
breast, nurse it less often and give
more water; if on the bottle, pour
out one-fourth of the milk and replace
it with water, then make the feelings
further apart.
Don't feed child simply because
it cries; it may be only thirsty. Give
it plenty of fresh, pure drinking wat
er.
Don't give your child any solid food
under twelve or thirteen months of
age Without teeth it cannot be
chewed and is bound to act as an in
testinal irritant, nearly always causing
trouble. The child should be weaned
at the end of the first year by gradu-
ally reducing the feelings at the
breast and cautiously substituting 9th
er foods.
In feeding on the bottle, exercise
the greatest care in securing fresh,
clean, pure and wholesome cows
milk. Cleanliness and purity in the
food cannot be too greatly emphasiz-
ed Modify it for feeding in accord
ance with the directions of your physi-
clan.
Keep the bottles clean Boil them
after each feeding. When filled with
fresh, modified milk, stop them with
cotton and keep in cool place until
needed. Heat by placing the bottle,
milk and all in warm water and keep.
ing on the stove until the proper tenn
perature is reached: don't pour the
milk into another vessel for the pur-
pose of heating.
Keep the nipples clean. Wash af-
ter using and place them in solution
of boracic acid until needed. Then
rinse one off and place it on the bot
tie.
Don't dose the baby. Too often
children are given medicines or RENE
dies handed down by the old
nanny nurse, that do much more
harm than good If the baby is sick,
if it has a bowel complaint or fever,
stop it's food at once and get doc
tor as quickly as possible. Many
babies are killed every year by too
much home dosing"
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