ABC OF BREASTFEEDING.

From the 1st moment the infant is applied to the breast, it has to be nursed upon a particular plan. This is necessary into the well-doing of the child, and will contribute essentially to preserve the health of your parent, who will thus be rendered an excellent nurse, and her duty at the same time will become a pleasure.

This suggests, however, a careful attention at the part of the mother to her own health; for those of her child is actually dependent upon it. Healthy, nourishing, and digestible milk usually are procured only at a healthy parent; and it is against good judgment to expect that, if a mother impairs her health and digestion by improper diet, neglect of exercise, and impure air, she will be able to, nevertheless, provide as wholesome and uncontaminated a fluid for her child, as if she were diligently attentive to these important points. Every instance of indisposition in the nurse is liable to affect the infant.

And this leads me to watch, that it should be a standard mistake to suppose that, because a lady is nursing, she ought therefore to measure very fully, and to include an allowance of wine, porter, or other fermented liquor, to her usual diet. Really the only results of this plan is, to cause an unnatural degree of fullness from the system, which places the nurse getting ready to disease, and which of itself frequently puts a stop for the secretion with the milk, instead of skyrocketing it. The best plan of proceeding is obvious enough; only let attention be paid to the ordinary laws of health, plus the mother, if she possess sound constitution, will make the best nurse than by any foolish deviation founded on ignorance and caprice.

This case proves the correctness of this statement:

A young lady, confined together with her first child, left the lying-in room at the expiration on the third week, a top notch nurse, and in perfect health. She had some slight trouble with her nipples, but this was soon overcome.

The porter system was now commenced, and from your pint with a pint and a noticeably half of this beverage was taken in the four and twenty hours. This was resorted to, not because there was any deficiency in the availability of milk, for it had been ample, as well as infant thriving upon it; but because, having become a nurse, she was told that it had been usual and necessary, which without it her milk and strength would ere long fail.

After this plan was followed for some days, the mother became drowsy and disposed to sleep at the daytime; and headache, thirst, a hot skin, in reality, fever supervened; the milk diminished in quantity, and, for the initial time, the stomach and bowels for this infant became disordered. The porter was ordered that need be left off; remedial measures were prescribed; and all symptoms, both in parent and child, were after some time removed, and health restored.

Having been accustomed, prior to becoming a mother, to adopt a glass or two of wine, and infrequently a glass of table beer, she was advised to follow precisely her former dietetic plan, but considering the addition of half a pint of barley-milk morning and night. Both parent and child continued in excellent health on the remaining period of suckling, as well as latter didn't taste artificial food until the ninth month, the parent's milk being all-sufficient for its wants.

No one can doubt how the porter was in this case the supply of the mischief. The patient had gone into the lying-in-room in full health, celebrated, and came out from her chamber (comparatively) as strong as she entered it. Her constitution had not been previously worn down by repeated child-bearing and nursing, she had an ample supply of milk, and was fully capable, therefore, of performing the duties which now devolved upon her, without resorting to any unusual stimulant or support. Her previous habits were totally at variance with the plan which was adopted; her system became too full, disease was produced, and the result experienced was nothing more than what probably be expected.

The want to be followed for the 1st six months. Until the breast- milk is fully established, which may not be until the next or third day subsequent to delivery (almost invariably so in a primary confinement), the infant must be fed upon somewhat thin gruel, or upon one third water and two thirds milk, sweetened with loaf sugar.

After this point it must obtain its nourishment through the breast alone, and for weekly or ten days the appetite along the infant should be the mother's guide, as to your frequency in offering the breast. The stomach at birth is feeble, and as yet unaccustomed to food; its wants, therefore, are easily satisfied, but they're frequently renewed. An interval, however, sufficient for digesting the little swallowed, is obtained before the appetite again revives, as well as a fresh supply is demanded.

On the expiration of weekly roughly it is essentially necessary, and with some children this may be done with safety from the very first day of suckling, to nurse the infant at regular intervals of three or four hours, day and night. This allows sufficient time for every meal for being digested, and tends to hold the bowels of the child in order. Such regularity, moreover, will do much to obviate fretfulness, and that constant cry, which seems as if per chance allayed only by constantly putting the child for the breast. A young mother very frequently runs into a heavy error in this particular, considering every expression of uneasiness as an indication of appetite, and whenever the infant cries offering it the breast, although ten minutes will not have elapsed since its last meal. This really is an injurious and even dangerous practice, for, by overloading the stomach, the food remains undigested, the child's bowels will always be from order, it soon becomes restless and feverish, and is, perhaps, eventually lost; when, by simply going to the above rules of nursing, the infant might became healthy and vigorous.

For the same reason, the infant that sleeps with its parent must not be allowed to possess the nipple remaining in its mouth all night. If nursed as suggested, it will likely be found to awaken, as the hour for its meal approaches, with great regularity. In reference to nighttime-nursing, I'd suggest suckling the babe as late as ten o'clock p. m., without putting it to your breast again until five o'clock the next morning. Many mothers have adopted this hint, with great advantage to seperately health, and without the slightest detriment to that regarding the child. When using the latter it soon becomes a habit; to induce it, however, it must be taught early.

The foregoing plan, and without variation, must be pursued to the sixth month.

After the sixth month to some time of weaning, that the parent has a large supply of fine and nourishing milk, and her child is healthy and evidently flourishing upon it, no change in its diet must be made. If otherwise, however, (and this will but too frequently be the case, even before the sixth month) the child is actually fed twice among the day, and that sort of food chosen which, after a little bit trial, is found to agree best.

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