. How I kept my baby well . on was slow and three times Avas interrupted,but throughout the principle was to keep the intervalas regular and as long as possible, consistent withthe babys appetite and other evidences of health. Leonard was started with the hospital regula-tion, 10 feedings a day (24 hours). But as thisseemed to give him more food than he could retain,meals were omitted as frequently as he seemed disin-clined to take them, until by the end of the secondmonth the number of meals was reduced to about sixor seven a day. Thereafter the reduction continuedvery slowly, until by the en
. How I kept my baby well . on was slow and three times Avas interrupted,but throughout the principle was to keep the intervalas regular and as long as possible, consistent withthe babys appetite and other evidences of health. Leonard was started with the hospital regula-tion, 10 feedings a day (24 hours). But as thisseemed to give him more food than he could retain,meals were omitted as frequently as he seemed disin-clined to take them, until by the end of the secondmonth the number of meals was reduced to about sixor seven a day. Thereafter the reduction continuedvery slowly, until by the end of the fifth month it wassix meals a day, given at approximately 6 A. M., 9A. M., 12 M., 3 P. M., 6 P. M., with either anotherevening meal or an early morning meal. But duringthe following month (sixth), however, I found hishunger demanded a late evening meal again, so thatan average of between seven and eight meals wasreached. Then for two months, seventh and eighth,the average went down again to between five and six 115. CHART SUMMARIES 117 meals, only to rise during the following (ninth)month, when a late evening meal had frequently to begiven, since otherwise he would wake hungry veryearly in the morning. This increased the average tosix meals a day. During the three following months(tenth, eleventh and twelfth) there was anothersteady decrease, until by the thirteenth month onlyfour meals a day were given (at about 6 A. M., 10A. M., 2 P. M. and 6 P. M.). This was followed by aslight increase with the re-introduction of the lateevening meal, bringing the average back to five mealsa day on the fourteenth month and remaining therefor two months (fifteenth and sixteenth). Then(seventeenth month), the night meal was finallyomitted, leaving four meals a day, and the decreasecontinued steadily, omitting gradually the afternoonmeal at 3 oclock, until by the twenty-fourth month Chart XXVI. 1. He be^an at the hos])ital with ten meals a the dictates of hunger, gradn
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