The theory and practice of infant feeding, with notes on development . rfere with the nu-trition of the infant, it may be neces-sary to remove the breast this is done a trial may be madeof giving the bottle during the timeof menstruation and then resumingthe breast. Intervening Pregnancy.—If preg-nancy intervenes it is usually best togive the baby other may be many exceptions, bow-ever, to this rule. Thus, if pregnancyoccurs during the middle of a hotsummer, when the baby is thriving, orin the case of a weak fragile baby witha tendency to digestive trouble, th
The theory and practice of infant feeding, with notes on development . rfere with the nu-trition of the infant, it may be neces-sary to remove the breast this is done a trial may be madeof giving the bottle during the timeof menstruation and then resumingthe breast. Intervening Pregnancy.—If preg-nancy intervenes it is usually best togive the baby other may be many exceptions, bow-ever, to this rule. Thus, if pregnancyoccurs during the middle of a hotsummer, when the baby is thriving, orin the case of a weak fragile baby witha tendency to digestive trouble, the breast may be con-tinued during the early period of pregnancy; while notideal, this may prove the best method of feeding Wet-Nursing.,—In many cases in which a mothercannot nurse her infant, a wet-nurse is the best wet-nurse is especially indicated when the infant ispoorly developed and shows signs of digestive preferable age for the nurse is between twenty andthirty years, and multiparas usually do better than primi-. Fig. 45.—Breast Pump. BREAST FEEDING. 193 parse, the former having had previous care of the sucklingand general charge of infants, which may be of decidedadvantage. Too much disparity between the ages of the infantsis not desirable, but a woman whose infant is under sixmonths can usually suckle a new-born baby. One advan-tage of having a wet-nurse with an older infant is thata careful inspection of the nurses infant will show howwell it has thriven upon her milk, and also whether ithas derived any constitutional disease, especially syphilis,from the mother. In every case a careful physical exam-ination of the applicant, as well as her infant, should bemade by the physician. As changes in the compositionof milk are largely the result of nervous influences andchanges of diet, a woman of quiet, phlegmatic tempera-ment, in good health, is to be preferred, and when selectedher diet should be as nearly as possible that
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