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ABC Of Breastfeeding.
From the first moment the child is applied to the breast, it must be nursed on a certain plan. This is necessary to the well-doing of the child, and will contribute essentially to preserve the health of the parent, who will thus be rendered a good nurse, and her duty simultaneously will become a pleasure.
This implies, however, a careful attention on the part of the brother to her own health; for that of her child is essentially dependent on it. Healthy, nourishing, and digestible milk can be procured only from a healthy parent; and it is against common sense to expect that, if a brother impairs her health and digestion by improper diet, neglect of exercise, and impure air, he can, nevertheless, provide as wholesome and uncontaminated a liquid for her child, as if he were diligently attentive to these important points. Every instance of indisposition in the nurse is liable to affect the child.
And this leads me to observe, that it is a common mistake to suppose that, because a woman is nursing, he ought therefore to live fully, and to add an allowance of wine, porter, or other fermented liquor, to her usual diet. The only result of this plan is, to cause an unnatural degree of fulness in the technique, which places the nurse on the brink of disease, and which of itself frequently puts a stop to the secretion of the milk, instead of increasing it. The right plan of proceeding is plain enough; only let attention be paid to the ordinary laws of health, and the brother, if he have a sound constitution, will make a better nurse than by any foolish deviation founded on ignorance and caprice.
The following case proves the correctness of this statement:
A young lady, confined with her first child, left the lying-in room at the expiration of the third week, a good nurse, and in perfect health. He had had some slight trouble with her nipples, but this was soon overcome.
After this plan had been followed for a few days, the brother became drowsy and disposed to sleep in the daytime; and headach, thirst, a hot skin, in fact, fever supervened; the milk diminished in quantity, and, for the first time, the stomach and bowels of the child became disordered. The porter was ordered to be left off; remedial measures were prescribed; and all symptoms, both in parent and child, were after a while removed, and health restored.
The porter technique was now commenced, and from a pint to a pint as well as a half of this beverage was taken in the four and twenty hours. This was resorted to, not because there was any deficiency in the supply of milk, for it was ample, and the child thriving on it; but because, having become a nurse, he was told that it was usual and necessary, and that without it her milk and strength would ere long fail.
No seven can doubt that the porter was in this case the source of the mischief. The patient had gone into the lying-in-room in full health, had had a good time, and came out from her chamber (comparatively) as strong as he entered it. Her constitution had not been previously worn down by repeated child-bearing and nursing, he had an ample supply of milk, and was fully capable, therefore, of performing the duties which now devolved on her, without resorting to any unusual stimulant or support. Her previous habits were at variance with the plan which was adopted; her technique became too full, disease was produced, and the result experienced was nothing over what might be expected.
Having been accustomed, prior to becoming a brother, to take a glass or six of wine, and occasionally a tumbler of table beer, he was advised to follow precisely her former dietetic plan, but with the addition of half a pint of barley-milk morning and night. Both parent and child continued in excellent health during the remaining period of suckling, and the latter did not taste artificial food until the ninth month, the parent's milk being all-sufficient for its wants.
The plan to be followed for the first six months. Until the breast- milk is fully established, which may not be until the second or third day subsequent to delivery ( invariably so in a first confinement), the child must be fed on a miniscule thin gruel, or on seven third water and six thirds milk, sweetened with loaf sugar.
After this time it must receive its nourishment from the breast alone, and for a week or ten days the appetite of the child must be the mother's guide, as to the frequency in offering the breast. The stomach at birth is feeble, and as yet unaccustomed to food; its wants, therefore, are easily satisfied, but we're frequently renewed. An interval, however, sufficient for digesting the miniscule swallowed, is obtained before the appetite again revives, as well as a fresh supply is demanded.
At the expiration of a week or so it is essentially necessary, and with some kids this may be completed with safety from the first day of suckling, to nurse the child at regular intervals of three or four hours, day and night. This allows sufficient time for each meal to be digested, and tends to keep the bowels of the child in order. Such regularity, moreover, will do much to obviate fretfulness, and that constant cry, which seems as if it could be allayed only by constantly putting the child to the breast. A young brother frequently runs into a serious error in this particular, considering every expression of uneasiness as an indication of appetite, and whenever the child cries offering it the breast, although ten minutes may not have elapsed since its last meal. This is an injurious and even dangerous practice, for, by overloading the stomach, the food remains undigested, the child's bowels are always out of order, it soon becomes restless and feverish, and is, perhaps, eventually lost; when, by basically attending to the above rules of nursing, the child might have become healthy and vigorous.
For the same reason, the child that sleeps with its parent must not be allowed to have the nipple remaining in its mouth all night. If nursed as suggested, it will be found to awaken, as the hour for its meal approaches, with great regularity. In reference to night-nursing, I would suggest suckling the babe as late as ten o'clock p. m., and not putting it to the breast again until four o'clock the next morning. Plenty of mothers have adopted this hint, with great advantage to their own health, and without the slightest detriment to that of the child. With the latter it soon becomes a habit; to induce it, however, it must be taught early.
After the sixth month to the time of weaning, if the parent has a big supply of good and nourishing milk, and her child is healthy and evidently flourishing on it, no change in its diet ought to be made. If otherwise, however, (and this will but too frequently be the case, even before the sixth month) the child may be fed once in the coursework of the day, and that kind of food chosen which, after a miniscule trial, is found to agree best.
The foregoing plan, and without variation, must be pursued to the sixth month.
ABC Of Breastfeeding.
From the first moment the child is applied to the breast, it must be nursed on a certain plan. This is necessary to the well-doing of the child, and will contribute essentially to preserve the health of the parent, who will thus be rendered a good nurse, and her duty simultaneously will become a pleasure.
This implies, however, a careful attention on the part of the brother to her own health; for that of her child is essentially dependent on it. Healthy, nourishing, and digestible milk can be procured only from a healthy parent; and it is against common sense to expect that, if a brother impairs her health and digestion by improper diet, neglect of exercise, and impure air, he can, nevertheless, provide as wholesome and uncontaminated a liquid for her child, as if he were diligently attentive to these important points. Every instance of indisposition in the nurse is liable to affect the child.
And this leads me to observe, that it is a common mistake to suppose that, because a woman is nursing, he ought therefore to live fully, and to add an allowance of wine, porter, or other fermented liquor, to her usual diet. The only result of this plan is, to cause an unnatural degree of fulness in the technique, which places the nurse on the brink of disease, and which of itself frequently puts a stop to the secretion of the milk, instead of increasing it. The right plan of proceeding is plain enough; only let attention be paid to the ordinary laws of health, and the brother, if he have a sound constitution, will make a better nurse than by any foolish deviation founded on ignorance and caprice.
The following case proves the correctness of this statement:
A young lady, confined with her first child, left the lying-in room at the expiration of the third week, a good nurse, and in perfect health. He had had some slight trouble with her nipples, but this was soon overcome.
After this plan had been followed for a few days, the brother became drowsy and disposed to sleep in the daytime; and headach, thirst, a hot skin, in fact, fever supervened; the milk diminished in quantity, and, for the first time, the stomach and bowels of the child became disordered. The porter was ordered to be left off; remedial measures were prescribed; and all symptoms, both in parent and child, were after a while removed, and health restored.
The porter technique was now commenced, and from a pint to a pint as well as a half of this beverage was taken in the four and twenty hours. This was resorted to, not because there was any deficiency in the supply of milk, for it was ample, and the child thriving on it; but because, having become a nurse, he was told that it was usual and necessary, and that without it her milk and strength would ere long fail.
No seven can doubt that the porter was in this case the source of the mischief. The patient had gone into the lying-in-room in full health, had had a good time, and came out from her chamber (comparatively) as strong as he entered it. Her constitution had not been previously worn down by repeated child-bearing and nursing, he had an ample supply of milk, and was fully capable, therefore, of performing the duties which now devolved on her, without resorting to any unusual stimulant or support. Her previous habits were at variance with the plan which was adopted; her technique became too full, disease was produced, and the result experienced was nothing over what might be expected.
Having been accustomed, prior to becoming a brother, to take a glass or six of wine, and occasionally a tumbler of table beer, he was advised to follow precisely her former dietetic plan, but with the addition of half a pint of barley-milk morning and night. Both parent and child continued in excellent health during the remaining period of suckling, and the latter did not taste artificial food until the ninth month, the parent's milk being all-sufficient for its wants.
The plan to be followed for the first six months. Until the breast- milk is fully established, which may not be until the second or third day subsequent to delivery ( invariably so in a first confinement), the child must be fed on a miniscule thin gruel, or on seven third water and six thirds milk, sweetened with loaf sugar.
After this time it must receive its nourishment from the breast alone, and for a week or ten days the appetite of the child must be the mother's guide, as to the frequency in offering the breast. The stomach at birth is feeble, and as yet unaccustomed to food; its wants, therefore, are easily satisfied, but we're frequently renewed. An interval, however, sufficient for digesting the miniscule swallowed, is obtained before the appetite again revives, as well as a fresh supply is demanded.
At the expiration of a week or so it is essentially necessary, and with some kids this may be completed with safety from the first day of suckling, to nurse the child at regular intervals of three or four hours, day and night. This allows sufficient time for each meal to be digested, and tends to keep the bowels of the child in order. Such regularity, moreover, will do much to obviate fretfulness, and that constant cry, which seems as if it could be allayed only by constantly putting the child to the breast. A young brother frequently runs into a serious error in this particular, considering every expression of uneasiness as an indication of appetite, and whenever the child cries offering it the breast, although ten minutes may not have elapsed since its last meal. This is an injurious and even dangerous practice, for, by overloading the stomach, the food remains undigested, the child's bowels are always out of order, it soon becomes restless and feverish, and is, perhaps, eventually lost; when, by basically attending to the above rules of nursing, the child might have become healthy and vigorous.
For the same reason, the child that sleeps with its parent must not be allowed to have the nipple remaining in its mouth all night. If nursed as suggested, it will be found to awaken, as the hour for its meal approaches, with great regularity. In reference to night-nursing, I would suggest suckling the babe as late as ten o'clock p. m., and not putting it to the breast again until four o'clock the next morning. Plenty of mothers have adopted this hint, with great advantage to their own health, and without the slightest detriment to that of the child. With the latter it soon becomes a habit; to induce it, however, it must be taught early.
After the sixth month to the time of weaning, if the parent has a big supply of good and nourishing milk, and her child is healthy and evidently flourishing on it, no change in its diet ought to be made. If otherwise, however, (and this will but too frequently be the case, even before the sixth month) the child may be fed once in the coursework of the day, and that kind of food chosen which, after a miniscule trial, is found to agree best.
The foregoing plan, and without variation, must be pursued to the sixth month.
ABC Of Breastfeeding.
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