lt. The following schedule is given by
one authority on children for healthy infants for the first year:

Night No. Quantity Quantity
Interval feedings of for for
between 10 P. M. feedings one 24
meals to in 24 feeding, hours,
by day. 7 A. M. hours. ounces. ounces.
2d to 7th day 2 hrs. 2 10 1 to 1-1/2 10 to 15
2d to 3rd week 2 hrs. 2 10 1-1/2 to 3 15 to 30
4th to 5th week 2 hrs. 1 10 2-1/2 to 3-1/2 25 to 35
6th to 8th week 2-1/2 hrs. 1 8 3 to 5 24 to 40
3d to 5th Month 3 hrs. 1 7 4 to 6 28 to 42
5th to 9th month 3 hrs. 0 6 5 to 7-1/2 30 to 45
9th to 12th month 4 hrs. 0 5 7 to 9 35 to 45

This schedule is for healthy children. The smaller amounts are required by
smaller children with weak digestion; the larger amounts are required by
large children with strong digestion. The interval is from the beginning
of one feeding to the beginning of the next feeding.

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How soon can I make the intervals at two and one-half hours? Generally at
five or six weeks.

When may I increase it to three hours? Usually at eight weeks or two
months.

When should I lengthen the interval between feedings? When there is poor
stomach digestion.

How is this shown? By habitual vomiting or regurgitation of food long
after nursing is finished; also when the baby has a very poor appetite so
that it always leaves some of its food.

When can I shorten the intervals? It is not generally advisable to feed
any baby oftener than given by this schedule.

REGULAR FEEDING.

How can I teach baby to take regular meals? By commencing at birth to feed
at exactly regular hours every day.

Shall I awaken baby to feed it? Yes, for a few days. In a short time he
will waken at the same hours himself.

Should this regularity extend through the night? Only up to nine or ten
o'clock. After ten let him sleep as long as he will.

How soon can baby go without food from 10 p. m. to 7 a. m.? At four months
usually and always at five or six months; night feeding causes
restlessness and poor sleep.

STERILIZED MILK.

What do you mean by sterilizing milk? It means to heat milk