. Our babies; how to keep them well and happy, a booklet for mothers . BLIND MANS BUFF ?S-iil. linois State Board of Health Cartoon No, 30 It is the first duty of every community to protect its children against theperils to which they, in the very nature of things, are blind Our Babies—How To Keep Them Well 13 THE FOOD THE BABY TAKES Maternal Feeding—or breast feeding—is of the utmost advantageto the baby and every mother who is able to do so, even at great per-sonal sacrifice, should give her child this benefit. Artificial feeding is,at best, a makeshift fraught with grave dangers to the chil
. Our babies; how to keep them well and happy, a booklet for mothers . BLIND MANS BUFF ?S-iil. linois State Board of Health Cartoon No, 30 It is the first duty of every community to protect its children against theperils to which they, in the very nature of things, are blind Our Babies—How To Keep Them Well 13 THE FOOD THE BABY TAKES Maternal Feeding—or breast feeding—is of the utmost advantageto the baby and every mother who is able to do so, even at great per-sonal sacrifice, should give her child this benefit. Artificial feeding is,at best, a makeshift fraught with grave dangers to the child. The majority of mothers can at least partly nurse their babies ifthey will. Fear of inability to nurse the child is believed to so affect theflow of milk as to be one of the causes for failure on the part of themother. Determination to nurse the baby and confidence in being ableto do so are very important to success. The flow of milk is stimulated by the efforts of the child to obtain , the baby should be put to the breast regularly during the first twoweeks, even if there
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