Identifier: womaningirlhoodw00soli (find matches)
Title: ... Woman in girlhood, wifehood, motherhood; her responsibilities and her duties at all periods of life; a guide in the maintenance of her health and that of her children
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Solis-Cohen, Myer
Subjects: Women Child care
Publisher: Philadelphia, Chicago (etc.) The J.C. Winston co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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for weaning. Suck, baby, suck! mothers love grows by giving;Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wasting. —Lamb. #t*;HERE are two methods of feeding an infant—by the?~y breast and by the bottle. The best food for a babyhKH unquestionably is its mothers milk. The stomach of a new-born babe is sufficientlydeveloped to digest the human milk nature intended for it,but is unequal to the task of digesting cows milk. The for-tunate child that is nursed by its mother is much less liableto be attacked by disease than is a bottle-fed baby, and isto a certain extent exempt from digestive disturbances. Nursing doubtless is the greatest inconvenience ofmotherhood, and its demands are most exacting; it neces-sitates a womans being with her baby at stated hoursthroughout the day and night, thus seriously interferingwith her work or pleasure. But this self-sacrifice a motherowes to her baby. If she bring a child into the world, shemust be willing to provide it with the best nourishment. 228
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THE FEEDING OF INFANTS £28 This is the childs right. The greatest infant mortality isalways among the bottle-fed babies. Not every mother, however, is able to nurse her child,as her milk may not be sufficient or of a quality suited tothe babys needs. Measures must be taken in the first caseto increase the quantity of the milk and in the second to in-crease those ingredients which the baby needs and decreasethose that are harmful to it. There are times, however, when a mother cannot nurseher child at all. Under such circumstances, whenever pos-sible, the baby should still be given human milk, throughthe employment of a wet-nurse. When the child is unableto be fed on human milk, it must be given some substitute. It is impossible to so modify the milk of an animal asto make it identical, chemically or otherwise, with humanmilk; yet cows milk may be modified so that it resembles asnearly as possible the milk of the mother. The subject of breast-feeding will be considered in thischapter.

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