Identifier: howikeptmybabywe00noye (find matches)
Title: How I kept my baby well
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Noyes, Anna Bogert Gausmann, 1873-
Subjects: Infants Infant Care Child Welfare
Publisher: Baltimore, Warwick & York, inc.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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eet. 8. Eighth Month. (September.) (See Chart VIII and Fig. 7.) Brief summary or the month. This was anothermonth of general progress, though he did not gainin weight, in fact, he lost a trifle, and: twice duringthe month there were irregularities lasting about aweek each. The first of these (thirty-first week, firstday, to thirty-first week, fifth day) came very nearbeing a repetition of the sixth months trouble—ex-cessive feeding—but before any great harm wasdone I suspected that his crying was not for more,but for less food. At any rate, as soon as I cut downthe quantity of food and omitted the night feedingthere was no further trouble. The chart shows thereturn to long night naps and fewer meals a day afterthirty-first week, sixth day, when these first reduc-tions were made. The second irregularity occurred from the thirty-third week, second day to the thirty-third week, sixthday, when he would wake every night about 3 oclock.He did not cry and he was not cross, but he was not
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60 NINE TYPICAL MONTHS IX DETAIL 51 sleepy. Water did not satisfy liim, and as there wereno evidences of overfeeding, I fed him, after whichhe always went to sleep and finished out his rest. 1thought that perhaps he was sleeping so much in thedaytime that he was not sleepy at night, but thatwould not account for his going to sleep again afterfeeding at 3 oclock, so I had to conclude that this wasa true instance of under-feeding. And the cause ofthat was to be found in the milk supply. This wouldhave been the right time to have begun to wean him,but I was very anxious not to introduce the new foodtill the warm weather was well past, so I still nursedhim, at the risk of underfeeding, and avoided therisks of j)repared food. 9. Ninth Month. (October.) (See Chart IX.) llie Beginnhig of Weaning. Beief summary of the month. This was a monthof problems. The babys customary long night napswere broken two-thirds of the nights, so that he wassleeping only 54% of the total time, as against 58%of

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