. How I kept my baby well . st was nineand one-sixth minutes, one and two-fifths minuteslonger than the previous month, and the time spentnursing was seven minutes, two minutes longer thanthe previous month. He had an average of six andone-half tea spoonsful of warm water a day. 4. Regurgitation and vomiting. How the quan-tities of food eaten compared I do not know, butthough the time spent inbibing was longer, theamount regurgitated was less—27 times, averageone-third tbs., or nine tbs. in all (previous month 25tbs.). And there also was a reduction in the amountvomited—49 times, average one-h
. How I kept my baby well . st was nineand one-sixth minutes, one and two-fifths minuteslonger than the previous month, and the time spentnursing was seven minutes, two minutes longer thanthe previous month. He had an average of six andone-half tea spoonsful of warm water a day. 4. Regurgitation and vomiting. How the quan-tities of food eaten compared I do not know, butthough the time spent inbibing was longer, theamount regurgitated was less—27 times, averageone-third tbs., or nine tbs. in all (previous month 25tbs.). And there also was a reduction in the amountvomited—49 times, average one-half tbs., or 24i^ all (previous month 44 tbs.). So whether thequantity was more or less, he was digesting it better. 5. Sleep. He slejDt about 60% of the entire day,an improvement of 3% on last months record. Hegenerally stayed awake after tAvo of the day-timefeedings. 6. Feces. Of 21 feces in 31 days (one movementin 36 hours), nine, or three-sevenths of the total,were perfect. Only three were caught in the cham-. Fig. 6. Auto-education begun. This desire to stand alone isliis own notion. (Age, six and a half months.) 47 48 HOW I KEPT MY BABY WELL ber; not so good a record as previous month, whichwas 9 ont of 29. Six were slightly greenish; fivewere both slightly curdled and greenish, and one wasa yellowish-green. I could not trace the cause ofthese irregularities, but they were very slight, anddisappeared without giving any further trouble. Itwas about this time that I noticed that the movementsafter the long intervals were quite likely to be per-fect. Six of the nine perfect feces of this month cameafter an interval of about two days. 7. SMu. The skin was in good condition all themonth, except for a little soreness of the scalp for thefirst week and a slight rash on three days, and for alittle dryness of the flesh on two days, which wasquickly remedied with white vaseline. 8. Cold. No cold symptoms appeared during themonth. 9. Behavior. In behavior he came within o
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