We now offer a monthly schedule—a table which is the result of our experience in feeding hundreds of babies in various sections of Chicago. It is not a schedule for the sick baby, but it is a carefully tabulated outline for the normal, healthy, average child ranging from one week to one year in age. In offering this table we remind the mother, if the baby is six months old and not doing well on the food it is getting and a change is desired by both mother and physician, that it is far better to begin with the second or third month's prescription and quickly work up to the sixth month's. This change may often be accomplished in two or three days.
In all large cities there are to be found milk laboratories which make it their business to fill prescriptions for the modification of milk under the direction of baby specialists. This milk can be absolutely relied upon. In specialized diet kitchens in many large hospitals, these feeding prescriptions also may be filled.
ARTIFICIAL FEEDING SCHEDULE
| Age | Baby's Weight | Whole Milk | Cane Sugar | Wheat Flour | Boiled water | Lime Water | Amount at Feeding | Number of Feedings | Interval Between Feedings | Fruit Juices | Soups and Broths | Total Daily Calories |
| Pounds | Ounces | Level Tablespoon | Level Tablespoon | Ounces | Ounces | Ounces | in 24 Hours | Hours | ||||
| 1 week | 7½ | 2½ | 1 | 5 | ½ | 1 | 8 | 3 | 112 | |||
| 2 weeks | 7½ | 4½ | 1½ | 9 | ½ | 2 | 7 | 3 | 184 | |||
| 3 weeks | 7¾ | 7 | 2 | 10 | ½ | 2½ | 7 | 3 | 267 | |||
| 4 weeks | 8 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 309 | |||
| 2 months | 10 | 11 | 2 | 12½ | 1 | 3½ | 7 | 3 | 351 | |||
| 3 months | 12 | 15 | 2 | ½ | 15 | 1 | 4½ | 7 | 3 | 447 | ||
| 4 months | 13 | 18 | 2½ | 1 | 13½ | 1½ | 5½ | 6 | 3 | 553 | ||
| 5 months | 14 | 21 | 2½ | 1½ | 13½ | 1½ | 6 | 6 | 3½ | 628 | ||
| 6 months | 15 | 23 | 2½ | 1½ | 10½ | 1½ | 7 | 5 | 4 | one teaspoon | one teaspoon | 680 |
| 7 months | 16 | 25 | 2 | 1½ | 8½ | 1½ | 7 | 5 | 4 | two teaspoon | ¼ cup | 732 |
| 8 months | 17 | 27 | 1½ | 2 | 8 | 1½ | 7¼ | 5 | 4 | onehalf orange | ¼ cup | 767 |
| 9 months | 18 | 29 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 7¾ | 5 | 4 | one orange | ½ cup | 854 |
| 10 months | 19 | 30 | ¾ | 2 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 4½ | one orange | ¾ cup | 875 |
| 11 months | 20 | 31 | ½ | 2 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 5 | one orange | 1 cup | 906 |
| 12 months | 21 | 32 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 5 | one orange | 1 cup arrowroot cracker | 950 | ||
| 18 months | 24 | 36 | 12 | 3 | 6 | toast, gravies, baked potato and apple, etc. | ||||||
| Note | 1 ounce of whole milk equals | 21 calories | 1 level tablespoon of flour equals | 25 calories | |
| 1 level tablespoon of cane sugar equals | 60 calories | The juice of 1 average orange equals | 75 calories | ||
| 1 level tablespoon of milk sugar equals | 45 calories | 1 cup of average bouillon equals about | 100 calories |
(This table is calculated on the basis of about 45 calories for each pound of baby weight)
TOP-MILK FORMULA
Top milk is the upper layer of milk which has been removed after standing a certain number of hours in a milk bottle or any other tall vessel with straight sides. It contains most of the cream and varying amounts of milk. It may be removed by a small cream dipper which holds one ounce, or it may be taken off with a siphon, but it should never be poured off. To obtain seven per cent top milk which is the one most ordinarily used in the preparation of top milk formulas, we take off varying amounts—according to the quality of the milk—which Doctor Holt describes as follows:
From a rather poor milk, by removing the upper eleven ounces from a quart, or about one-third the bottle.
From a good average milk, by removing the upper sixteen ounces, or one-half the bottle.