The Care and Feeding of Children - A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses by L. Emmett Holt
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The daily schedule should be about as follows: 6.30 A.M. Milk, warmed, ten to twelve ounces, given from cup. 9 A.M. Fruit juice, two to three ounces. 10 A.M. Cereals: similar to those given from the fourteenth to the eighteenth month; they need not be strained although they should be cooked and served in the same way. Crisp dry bread, zwieback, or Huntley and Palmer biscuits, without butter. Milk, warmed, one cup. 2 P.M. Beef juice and one egg; or, broth and meat; care being taken that the meat is always rare and scraped or very finely divided; beefsteak, mutton chop, or roast beef may be given. Very stale bread, or two pieces of zwieback. Prune pulp or baked apple, one to two tablespoonfuls. Water; no milk. 6 P.M. Cereal: farina, cream of wheat, or arrowroot, cooked for at least one half hour, with milk, plenty of salt, but without sugar. or, milk toast or stale bread and milk. 10 P.M. If required, ten to twelve ounces of plain milk. |
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