CE OF "VOMITING" AFTER FEEDINGS IN BABIES?--Let us
examine the difference between the milk which overflowed immediately
after the feeding and the milk which the baby ejects one-half hour or so
later, and which is now being considered.

The first milk looks like ordinary milk (breast milk), or if the baby is
being fed from the bottle, it looks just like the mixture in the bottle.
It not only looks like what it took, but it smells just like it. Now
examine the other; we find it looks like curdled milk, it is lumpy, and
we immediately can tell that it is sour, because it smells sour and
looks sour.

The explanation of the first overflow (immediately after the feeding)
was the too great quantity; the explanation of the second overflow
(one-half hour or so after the feeding), is the wrong quality of milk.
The quantity was right because none overflowed right after the feeding,
but the quality was wrong. Again, it is not the baby's stomach that is
at fault,--it is the quality of the milk.

How do we know this? Because of what takes place in the baby's stomach
during the one-half hour between the feeding and the time of the
overflow of the sour milk. The quantity being right, why should the baby
have any trouble if the quality is correct? It should not. Therefore by
changing the quality (not the quantity as in the former case) we cure
the trouble, thus proving the quality of the milk to be at fault.

What took place in the baby's stomach in the intervening half hour? The
quality being wrong, the little stomach could not digest the mixture
quick enough. Fermentation set in, gas was evolved, and as the stomach
was full before the gas was manufactured (and as more and more gas is
manufactured when food ferments), the stomach overflowed and out of the
baby's mouth comes gas, and sour, fermenting, curdled milk. This process
goes on until fermentation stops, or until the little stomach has just
enough left to fill it and no more. But think what this is,--a sour mass
of rotting, indigestible, curdled milk,--and that is what this baby is
expected to live and thrive on.

Some babies seem to have trouble from the very first day of life. Either
they will not retain the food, or the food fails to agree with them. If
the baby is put upon artificial food at once, these troubles are, of
course, not unexpected (because the right artificial food may not be
first chosen for the particular baby), but it is not always the
artificially fed bab