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122 NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL SOCIETY in adult terms, it starts the year with 142 pounds and ends weighing 400 pounds. It accomplishes this, too, with a digestive system that is set on a hair trigger. One can readily understand how carefully the food must be selected, how judiciously given, how perfect must be the elimination, that no clogging of the system occurs, while it is working constantly, at top speed, with forced draft, else the feeble digestive system may break down with a crash. It is facts such as these that public health must impress on the mother if the debt to the infant is ever to be discharged. As to feeding the baby: Let the mother know that the strength of her milk varies with the length of time between nursings, being richer in cream the oftener the nursings. Let the mother understand that prolonged crying is from discomfort, almost never from hunger. A safe rule is this, in the presence of severe crying, weaken or omit the food until the cause is ascertained. One can never go far wrong on such a course, while to follow the usual method and feed the baby every time it cries, on the supposition that it is hungry, leads to an enormous amount of harm. Of course the correct plan is to let the baby nurse every three hours for the first six months, omitting the midnight feeding after the third month. From six to twelve months the intervals are every four hours. The same hours should be observed constantly, to avoid confusion; the baby should be waked at the proper hour if necessary, or, if fussing ahead of time, should be left alone till the hour is up. By exactness in this matter, the baby will soon wake on the hour from force of habit; also it will play and amuse itself if awake before time. Thus regularity insures uniform strength to the mother's milk, and it trains the baby to be contented and good natured about unpleasant situations. This will go far towards preparing the baby in the best way to enjoy health; or, if necessary, to make a more successful fight in sickness. As to the food in the first year. Mother's milk has won out over all other competing foods. And from one end of the country to the other there is an ever swelling chorus, "give the babies mother's milk." If its own mother is not able to nurse it, then some other mother—white, black, red or brown—but a healthy human mother. The color of the mother is of no more importance than is the color of a cow. Give the baby mother's milk and forget all other foods. The baby's own mother should nurse it if possible, and none but the gravest consideration should make her wean her baby. Regarding the foods of the second year, two very important points should be stressed, namely, the thorough cooking of all starches, and cooking all vegetables until soft and tender and then straining through
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-16: Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Document Title | Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Description | After 1939 transactions published in the North Carolina Medical Journal |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Annual Session. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1891-1939. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1918 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-065 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Volume Number | 65 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
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Fixed Title * | Page 122 |
Document Title | Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Description | After 1939 transactions published in the North Carolina Medical Journal |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Annual Session. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1891-1939. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1918 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-065-0154 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; article |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 65 |
Page Number | 122 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 122 NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL SOCIETY in adult terms, it starts the year with 142 pounds and ends weighing 400 pounds. It accomplishes this, too, with a digestive system that is set on a hair trigger. One can readily understand how carefully the food must be selected, how judiciously given, how perfect must be the elimination, that no clogging of the system occurs, while it is working constantly, at top speed, with forced draft, else the feeble digestive system may break down with a crash. It is facts such as these that public health must impress on the mother if the debt to the infant is ever to be discharged. As to feeding the baby: Let the mother know that the strength of her milk varies with the length of time between nursings, being richer in cream the oftener the nursings. Let the mother understand that prolonged crying is from discomfort, almost never from hunger. A safe rule is this, in the presence of severe crying, weaken or omit the food until the cause is ascertained. One can never go far wrong on such a course, while to follow the usual method and feed the baby every time it cries, on the supposition that it is hungry, leads to an enormous amount of harm. Of course the correct plan is to let the baby nurse every three hours for the first six months, omitting the midnight feeding after the third month. From six to twelve months the intervals are every four hours. The same hours should be observed constantly, to avoid confusion; the baby should be waked at the proper hour if necessary, or, if fussing ahead of time, should be left alone till the hour is up. By exactness in this matter, the baby will soon wake on the hour from force of habit; also it will play and amuse itself if awake before time. Thus regularity insures uniform strength to the mother's milk, and it trains the baby to be contented and good natured about unpleasant situations. This will go far towards preparing the baby in the best way to enjoy health; or, if necessary, to make a more successful fight in sickness. As to the food in the first year. Mother's milk has won out over all other competing foods. And from one end of the country to the other there is an ever swelling chorus, "give the babies mother's milk." If its own mother is not able to nurse it, then some other mother—white, black, red or brown—but a healthy human mother. The color of the mother is of no more importance than is the color of a cow. Give the baby mother's milk and forget all other foods. The baby's own mother should nurse it if possible, and none but the gravest consideration should make her wean her baby. Regarding the foods of the second year, two very important points should be stressed, namely, the thorough cooking of all starches, and cooking all vegetables until soft and tender and then straining through |
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Article Title | What Public Health Owes The Infant |
Article Author | L. W. Elias |
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