CHAPTER XX

ARTIFICIAL FEEDING (_continued_)

How to prepare milk mixtures--Sterilizing the food for the day's feeding--How to test the temperature of the food for baby--When to increase the quality or quantity of food--Food allowable during the first year in addition to milk--Beef-juice--White of egg--Orange juice--Peptonized milk--The hot or immediate process--The cold process--Partially peptonized milk--Completely peptonized milk--Uses of peptonized milk--Objections to peptonized milk--What a mother should know about baby's feeding bottle and nipple--Should a mother put her baby on artificial food if her supply of milk during the first two weeks is not quite enough to satisfy it--Certain conditions justify the adoption of artificial feeding from the beginning--Mothers' mistakes in the preparation of artificial food--Feeding during the second year--Sample meals for a child three years of age--The diet of older children--Meats, vegetables, cereals, bread, desserts, fruits ... PAGE 259

WHAT MOTHERS SHOULD KNOW