BABY CRIES BECAUSE:

He is hungry.	He is too cold.
He is thirsty.	He is in pain.
He has been given a dirty bottle.	He is very sick.
His mother has failed properly to cleanse the nipples.	His throat is sore.
His food is not prepared right.	His ear aches.
His food is too cold.	He has been rocked, carried, or bounced.
His bowels are constipated.	He has been given a pacifier.
His band is too tight.	He has had too much excitement.
His clothes are wrinkled.	His mother has eaten the wrong food.
His diaper is wet.
He is too hot.
He wants fresh air.

CHAPTER XV

THE NURSING MOTHER AND HER BABE

Happy is the mother, and thrice blessed is the babe when he is able to enjoy the supreme benefits of maternal nursing. The benefits to the child are far reaching; he stands a better chance of escaping many infantile diseases; the whole outlook for health—and even life itself—is greatly improved in the case of the nursing babe, as compared with the prospect of the bottle-fed child. Maternal nursing lays the foundation for sturdy manhood and womanhood.

Out of every one hundred bottle-fed babies, an average of thirty die during the first year, while of the breast-fed babies, only about seven out of every one hundred die the first year. At the same time, nursing the babe delivers the mother from all the work and anxiety connected with the preparation of the artificial food, the dangers and risks of unclean milk, and the ever-present fear of disease attendant upon this unnatural feeding. The mother who nurses her child can look forward to a year of joy and happiness; whereas, if the babe is weaned, she is compelled to view this first year with many fears and forebodings. Mother's milk contains every element necessary for the growth and development of the child, and contains them in just the proportions required to adapt it as the ideal food for that particular child.

A dirty baby, properly fed, will thrive. A baby deprived of fresh air, but wisely fed, will survive and even develop into a strong healthy man or woman. But the baby raised according to the latest and most approved rules of sanitation and hygiene, if improperly fed, will languish and die.