ars of age.
3. She should abstain from all stimulants.
4. She should be amiable, temperate, and should sense her
responsibility.

If an unmarried mother of her first child is engaged as a wet nurse,
she should not be "stuffed" or allowed to overeat, which is commonly
the result of moving her from her lower life into more comfortable
surroundings, or given ale or beer to increase her milk. She should
continue her normal eating, take light exercise, which does not mean
the scrubbing of floors or doing the family washing, and live under
the same hygienic regime outlined for the nursing mother. Should she
be the mother of the second or third illegitimate child, then she is
quite likely to be mentally deficient and she should not be engaged.
Her own babe will have to be fed artificially as very few mothers can
endure the strain of two suckling children.

The baby's own mother should keep general supervision and not turn her
babe entirely over to the care of the wet nurse. Remember always that
no one in the wide world will ever take the same mother interest in
your offspring that can spring from your own mother heart.

CHAPTER XVI

THE BOTTLE-FED BABY

In taking up the subject of the bottle-fed baby, we must repeat that
the only perfect baby food on earth is the milk that comes from the
breast of a healthy mother.

But sudden illness, accident, chronic maladies, or possibly the death
of the mother, often throw the helpless babes out into a world of many
sorts and kinds of artificial foods--foods that are prepared by
modifying cow's, ass', or goat's milk; foods arranged by the addition
to the milk of various specially prepared cereals, albumens or malted
preparations, otherwise known as "proprietary foods." We shall
endeavor, then, in this chapter and in that on "the feeding problem,"
to lay down certain general suggestions to both the nurse and the
mother, which may assist them in their effort to select the food which
will more nearly simulate nature's wondrous mother-food, and which
will, at the same time, be best suited to some one particular baby.

THE HOURLY SCHEDULE

The normal baby, from birth to six months, should receive properly
prepared nourishment every three hours, beginning the day usually at
six A. M., the last feeding being at nine P. M. During the early weeks
an additional bottle is given at midnight, but this is usually
discarded at four months, at which time the last feeding sho