How much increase can be given at each feeding? Not more than one-quarter of an ounce.
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FOOD FOR HEALTHY INFANTS DURING THE LATER MONTHS.
How long shall I continue this proportion, that is, the fat three times the proteids (curd)—skim-milk? Usually for three or four months.
What changes shall I then make in the food? After you are using formula five of the first series; that is, six ounces of the ten per cent milk in twenty ounces of milk, increase the fat slowly, for the proportion of fat (three per cent), is near the limit for healthy children.
How then shall I strengthen the milk? By raising the percentage of proteids (curds, skim-milk).
How can I do this? Use the formulas derived from the seven per cent milk and discontinue the ten per cent milk.
THIRD SERIES.—Five formulas for seven per cent milk for the later months—
Formulas. 1 2 3 4 5
7 per cent milk 7 oz. 8 oz. 9 oz. 10 oz. 11 oz.
*Milk Sugar 1 oz. 1 oz. 1 oz. 3/4 oz. 1/2 oz.
Lime-water 1 oz. 1 oz. 1 oz. 1 oz. 1 oz.
Boiled water 12 oz. 11 oz. 10 oz. 4 oz. 3 oz.
Barley Gruel 0 oz. 0 oz. 0 oz. 5 oz. 5 oz.
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20 oz. 20 oz. 20 oz. 20 oz. 20 oz.
*(As the milk sugar is dissolved in the boiled water the quantity is twenty ounces instead of twenty-one.) Oatmeal gruel can be substituted for barley gruel if there is constipation. To increase the food to twenty-five, thirty, or thirty-five ounces increase the milk ingredients by 1/4, 1/2, 3/4 and for forty ounces using two times as much.
How shall I increase the food during this period? Beginning with formula one of this series, which should usually follow five of the first or second series, you can usually make the increase in ten days to No. 2; in two weeks you can use No. 3; but proceed more slowly to four or five when you have reached them. The same formula may be continued sometimes for three or four months with no other change, except an increase in the quantity of the food, that is from twenty ounces to twenty-five, etc.