Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-17
USE MODIFIED MILK
FORFEED|NC BABY
Utensils Needed to Prepare
Properly the Fluid
Infant Food.
BOTTLES AND NIPPLES
MUST BE KEPT CLEAN
Other Things a Nine-Month- Old
Child May Be Allowed
to Eat.

on the care OF babies during the hot summer
months. These articles. which have been pre-
Star from week to week. Every citizen. partic-
ularly mothers, is urged to cooperate in lower
ing infant mortality In Washington and bettering
the conditions of babies.)
When the baby reaches the age of
eight and half or nine months breast
milk no longer meets the requirements
of its growing body. and We then be-
gin supplementary feeding with modi-
fed cows milk
Some of the reasons for substituting
cows milk before nine months may be
!. Ill health of mother or acute in
fictitious diseases after careful investi-
cation by physician.
>. insufficient milk supply, which can
be remedied by carefully dieting the
mother.
How to Modify Milk.
By modified milk we mean cows
milk mixed with other things to make
it as near mothers milk as possible
The cows milk selected for modifying
should be the cleanest, best pasteur-
lied cows milk obtainable, and should
be kept cold until used.
Some of the things used in modifying
milk are boiled water. oatmeal water.
barley water, limewater and sugar.
The doctor should give You a recipe
by which to prepare baby's milk. 1t
Is as important to have this super
vised as it is to have a physician write
and the careful mother should consider
nerself the druggist carefully carrying
out the doctors orders.
All babies should be carefully weigh
ca at least twice month and at this
time the formula looked over to see II
1t is at that time properly suited to
baby's needs. Besides the carefully
prescribed formula the equipment nee
essary for preparing milk at home-and
which should be kept exclusively for
the baby and not used for other cook
ings-is:
l., saucepan (to make barley water
or oatmeal water); 2. small strainer
3. large pitcher to mix feeding; 4, g.
mel (to fill bottles); 6, teaspoon and ia
blespoon; Z, bottle brush; s, large pan
In which to boil bottles.
How to Proceed.
Before you begin, wash your hands
Then see that every dish, and in fac,
everything that will touch the baby's
milk, is absolutely clean. Have every
thing boiled before you take the cover
off the milk bottle. Unless instructed
by the doctor to use the top of milk
shake bottle we'll so as to mix the
cream. In measuring use no more and
no less of anything than has been Or
dered. Modify milk as early in the
morning as possible. If you are using
oatmeal or barley or plain water. cook
them the night before and have cold
before using.
Dissolve the sugar in the dilutant
and strain; then add prescribed guam
tity of milk and stir well. Fill grad
uated feeding bottles and carefully
stop them with cork or absorbent con-
ton and put on ice. Before giving me
baby the bottle should be shaken and
placed in a saucepan of warm water
until 1t is 1ukewarm or about the tenn
perature of breast milk. Test this by
dropping a few drops on the back OF
the hand.
Intervals of feeding should always be
regulated by physician, but should not
be oftener than three hours by the
clock.
How to Clean Utensils.
After each feeding rinse the stopper
nipple and bottle in cold water and
scrub bottle with hot water and soap
and bottle brush. Turn upside down
in pan of water and boil for fifteen
minutes. Allow to cool before putting
the prepared milk into them. Turn nip
pie inside out and wash with soap and
hot water, and rinse; drop in boiling
water for one minute. Place in clean,
dry cup or glass and cover with sau-
GER.
Other Food.
In addition to modified cows milk
a nine-month-old baby might have
orange juice-beginning with one tea
spoonful and gradually increasing to
juice of half an orange-between first
and second feelings. Also one well
cooked cereal at the forenoon feeding,
beginning with a tablespoonful and
gradually increasing: give with the
bottle of milk. For summer the best
cereals are cream Of wheat, wheatena
or cornmeal mush. Zweibach may also
be used.
If you have no private physician to
consult. take your baby to an infant
welfare center.