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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ofhis mouth he has lost some sleep. The sucking habitis not broken, but I keep the thumb out of his mouthas much as I can. 22. Twenty-second Month. (November.) (SeeChart XXII.) Beief summary of the month. The months, andpractically the years, progress (for it was just oneyear ago, at nine months, that he had his last set-back) was interrupted by a cold, which lasted eightdays and was accompanied for a day by a fever. Histeeth also pained him during this period, and mayhave been a cause in bringing about the fever. Dur-ing that week, the third w^eek of this month, the dietwas considerably reduced, which meant a generalreduction in the diet averages for the month; butconsidering the averages for the week following thecold (the last week of the month), when the diet re-turned to a normal amount, the amounts generallyshow an increase. 23. Tiveniy-ihird Month. (December.) (See Chart XXIII.) Brief summary of the month. In spite of a littleintestinal irreguhirity lasting about four days, and
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94 NINE TYPICAL MONTHS IN DETAIL 95 a cold lasting five days, tlie month generally was agood one. One development of the month was thetransition from four to three meals a day, effectedby omitting the afternoon meal, making a long after-noon j)eriod from dinner to supper time. An evi-dence of his increasing muscular development andcontrol is shoTvm in his walking up and down sixflights of stairs, holding my hand and the banister.He did this several times. A few dry days and sev-eral dry nights also show a gain in the control ofexcretion. 24. Twenty-fourth Month. (January.) (See ChartXXIV and Figs. 17, 18 and 19 (Prontispiecel). A Bad Teething Month. I. Bkief summaky or the month. The problemof the first three weeks of this month was to remedythe loose feces. Those foods, such as oatmeal,shredded wheat, wheatena, prunes and bread, thattended to make the feces loose were omitted,or used very sparingly, and only those were usedthat heretofore had kept the feces compact, suchas barley, fa

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