Identifier: maternitychildca00gall (find matches)
Title: Maternity and child care
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Galland, William Herbert, 1877- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Pregnancy Infants Child care
Publisher: Chicago, F. J. Drake & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
th months..... .7, 10 A. M. 1, 4, 7, 10 P. M. 3 A. M. Fourth or fifth months to one year. .7, 10 A. M. 1, 4, 7, 10 P. M. Note: Gradually lengthen the intervals, when you changefrom the two-hour to the two-and-one-half-hour schedule, tak-ing 3 or 4 days to change. Hold the baby in the proper position whennursing. Be slightly propped up in bed at first.Eest on your side with the infants head in thebend of your right arm to nurse from the rightbreast and in the left arm for the left breast.Later when sitting up lean slightly forward,bringing the breast and nipple into a more com-fortable position for the baby to nurse withoutsucking air or getting his nose buried in the flesh,thus making it hard for him to breathe. Gentlycompressing the breast at the nipple regulatesthe flow of milk if it comes too freely. Nursefrom one breast at one nursing, from the otherat the next and so on. Most babies empty onebreast at a nursing. Dont give both unless thesupply is scanty. Emptying the breasts com-
Text Appearing After Image:
The Correct Nursing PositionCourtesy of The Maternity Center Association, New York City. THE BABYS FIRST DAYS 153 pletely stimulates the secretion of milk and givesthe baby a well-balanced nursing, as the last milkin the breast contains more fat than the first. By strictly observing the regular nursing pe-riods your breasts secrete milk better. Yourbabys stomach has only a limited capacity andtakes just so long each time to digest the milkand needs a certain rest afterward. Digestiontogether with the whole process of assimilationof the food with the elimination of the wastethrough the bowels is likewise kept in properorder. Irregular nursing throws this whole sys-tem out of order and results in indigestion, colic,vomiting, diarrhea and constipation. Nurse yourbaby by the clock, wake it to nurse and neverpermit your other duties or pleasures to inter-fere. Sit in a comfortable chair in a quiet roomby yourself. Eelax, think about pleasant thingsand give your whole, undivided attention t

Note About Images