The nurse should serve everything in the most cleanly and appetizing way if it is only a cup of tea; and all waste, soiled dishes, napkins, and excreta must be removed as delicately as possible.
Diet for Pregnancy.—Fresh fish, boiled, broiled or baked; and shell-fish raw or cooked,—any way but fried.
Meat, once or twice a day, except when contraindicated by condition of the kidneys. Veal is best omitted.
All farinaceous foods and vegetables may be eaten freely.
Desserts should be plain, but tempting.
No alcohol is taken without direct permission from the doctor, and coffee and tea should be limited.
Diet for Puerperium.—First two days, milk, buttermilk, soup, gruel, cocoa, toast and tea, chicken, oyster and clam broth.
In the next two days, under ordinary conditions, the diet is increased and made somewhat heavier.
Semisolids are added like milk-toast, eggs, poached or boiled soft, oysters, clams and boiled fish.
After the milk comes in, the woman is put on a general diet as fast as she can digest it.