nd her milk diminished. Plenty of good nourishing food, taken three
times a day with an abundance of water drinking between the meals,
together with a free happy frame of mind occasioned by the recreation
before mentioned, usually produces good milk and plenty of it. A nap
between meals will probably produce more milk than eating between
meals.

OBJECTIONABLE FOODS

All foods that cause indigestion in the mother or babe should be
avoided.

Some mothers continue to eat tomatoes, peaches, sour salads, acid
fruits, and it appears in no way to interfere with baby's comfort; but
they are the exception rather than the rule. Usually tomatoes, acid
salad dressings, and mixed desserts must be avoided. Each mother is a
law unto herself. Certainly none of our readers will selfishly
continue any food she feels will make her baby cry. All acid fruits,
rich desserts, certain coarse vegetables, concoctions of all
descriptions such as rarebit, condiments, highly seasoned sauce, etc.,
should be avoided.

Acid fruitades, such as lemonade, limeade and orangeade, can be taken
by a small per cent of nursing mothers; and, since fruit acids are
neutralized and alkalized in the process of digestion and
assimilation, and since they are the very fruit-drinks we prescribe
for patients suffering with an increased acidity, it would appear that
they were in every way wholesome for the mother--if they in no way
interfere with the baby. Practically, they do as a rule disturb the
baby's digestion and should be avoided by those mothers who have found
this to be the case.

CAKED BREASTS

During the first week of lactation the milk tubes of the breasts very
often become blocked and the breasts become engored with milk, this
condition being known as "caked breasts." At this particular time of
the baby's life, he takes little more than an ounce of milk at a feed;
so, beside the incoming engorgement of milk, an additional burden is
thrown upon the milk tubes of the breasts in that they are not
entirely emptied each nursing time by the young infant. When the
breasts threaten to "cake," immediate steps must be taken to relieve
the condition--to empty the breasts--and this is usually accomplished
in the following manner: with hands well lubricated with sweet oil or
olive oil the nurse begins gentle manipulation of the breasts toward
the nipple in circular strokes, with the result that the milk soon
begins to ooze out. This massage should be continu