do it. Many mothers give baby potato, etc., at this period; this
is bad, as potato is hard to digest on account of having so much starch.
Bread and cakes are also prohibited; convulsions are often caused by such
food. Milk gruel and broths are enough for the baby and he will thrive
using them. Baby should feed every three hours up to ten p. m., six and
one-half to seven and one-half ounces at each meal.

Mosquito Bites.--If baby is bitten by mosquitoes wash the spot off with a
little camphor water, soda water, or a wet compress of witch-hazel should
be kept on the bite or boracic acid or soda solution. Keep the baby from
scratching the part by fixing his hands; scratching will further poison
the part.

Flies.--They often carry germs of disease on their legs and wings, and
they frequently light on baby's mouth or on the nipple of the nursing
bottle. Diseases can be contracted in this way. The windows should be
screened. Everything that the fly has touched should be washed with some
light antiseptic solution.

Ninth Month.--His long morning nap should be encouraged and he should
sleep in the early afternoon. If the baby is heavy his little moccasin or
kid shoes will not now support his ankles and he should have a shoe with a
piece of stiffening at the side. The shoe should have no heels; laced
shoes fit better and should be preferred. The baby (bottle-fed) can take
seven to eight ounces of the proper food every three hours until ten p. m.

Tenth Month.--He can now take a little beef juice, beginning with one
teaspoonful once a day and soon twice a day; then increase to two
teaspoonfuls at a time and keep on until he is taking eight teaspoonfuls
daily.

This should be given between his regular meals. Some babies cannot take
beef juice; orange juice may then be tried, strained through cheesecloth
or fine muslin and be given at first in doses of one teaspoonful and
increased until baby gets the juice of one-half an orange.

If the mother is nursing baby and he has been given one bottle of milk
daily, as advised for a four-months-old babe, he can now have two bottle
feedings daily. Every healthy baby should be weaned when one year old, and
it is better to do it gradually in this way. The baby's food should now be
given him every three and one-half hours up to ten p. m., thus making five
meals in twenty-four hours of seven to eight ounces at each meal.

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Eleventh Month.--Baby can now have added to