AMOUNT OF FEEDINGS FOR INFANTS.

Age.	Twenty-four-hour amount.	Number of feedings, amouint and intervals.

1 week	10 to 12 ounces	10 feedings of 1 ounce
		at 2 hour intervals.
		8 feedings of 1½ ounces
		at 2½ hour intervals.

4 weeks	20 ounces	8 feedings of 2½ ounces
		at 2½ hour intervals.
		7 feedings of 3 ounces
		at 3 hour intervals.

4 months	32 ounces	7 feedings of 4½ ounces
4 months	32 ounces	at 3 hour intervals.

6 months	36 to 40 ounces	6 feedings of 6 to 6½ ounces
6 months	36 to 40 ounces	at 3 hour intervals.

9 months	48 ounces	6 feedings of 8 ounces
		at 3 hour intervals.
		5 feedings of 9½ ounces
		at 3 to 4 hour intervals.

First twenty-four hours—Infant should receive only water, and after that water to be given only between feedings, 1 to 2 ounces every four hours.

Water may be sweetened with saccharin.

Normal infant may feed every three or four hours and only one feeding during night.

After eight months old, no feeding after 10 P. M.

Three months’ child may take 5 ounces at one feeding.

Six months’ child may take 7 ounces at one feeding.

Nine months’ child may take 9 ounces at one feeding.

The child should consume the contents of a bottle in twenty minutes.

Orange juice is not a necessary food unless milk is pasteurized or sterilized (boiled) and in case of constipation. Give 1 or 2 teaspoonfuls one hour before feeding. After nine months reduce amount of milk and increase amount of carbohydrates, such as starch gruels, flour ball, barley flour, oatmeal, and vegetable soup. Zwieback or dry toast may be placed in infant’s hand to teach it how to feed itself. Milk allowed in second year, 1 quart in twenty-four hours. Fruit juices may now be given and should form a part of the food after fifteen months of age. Vegetables, such as beets, spinach and carrots chopped fine and squeezed through colander, may be a part of the regular diet in four meals a day. A child two years old may have small quantities of fresh fish, tender chicken, or beefsteak. No green fruits should be given under four years of age. Eggs should be soft-boiled for two minutes or coddled four minutes, and then only one a day if it agrees with the child.