Two or three baked bananas, with cream (See recipe, p. 677) Two eggs or two glasses of milk Oatmeal--a small portion LUNCHEON A sweet potato Two or three glasses of milk DINNER Cream of rice soup Two fresh vegetables A potato or bran meal gems Milk or cheese Nuts and raisins THE NURSING MOTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR THE DIET The nursing mother should omit all acid fruits, pickles, and condiments containing vinegar. She should eat sparingly of sweets, especially of the pastry and soda-fountain variety. She should omit such vegetables as radishes, cucumbers, cabbage, and sourcrout. Fresh corn and dried beans often produce serious intestinal trouble in the young child. Eggs should never be eaten when there is the slightest fever. The diet of the nursing mother should be confined chiefly to the more readily digestible foods such as are named in the menus which follow. SUGGESTIONS FOR NURSING The mother should remember that her baby should never be nursed when she is tired, fatigued, overheated, angry, frightened, excited, or laboring under any mental disturbance. Both her mental and her physical condition are instantly conveyed to the child, through her milk, often in exaggerated form. Children are sometimes thrown into convulsions by nursing the breast of an excited mother. SUGGESTIONS FOR RELIEVING INTESTINAL CONGESTION If either mother or child has a tendency toward intestinal congestion (constipation), the mother should take wheat bran, thoroughly cooked, with both the morning and the evening meal; or, a few drops of prune juice, given to the child, will often relieve this condition, while affording an excellent source of nourishment. SPRING MENU _FOR THE NURSING MOTHER_ BREAKFAST Plain boiled wheat, with cream Fresh milk A baked potato or a baked banana LUNCHEON Fresh milk or eggs; milk preferred Corn bread or bran meal gems Onions, en casserole DINNER Cream of corn soup Spinach or turnip greens A potato, peas, or asparagus Plain gelatin, with cream SUMMER MENU _FOR THE NURSING MOTHER_ BREAKFAST Cantaloup or a very ripe, sweet peach One egg Flaked wheat, very thoroughly cooked A glass or two of milk LUNCHEON Vegetable soup Corn bread or bran gems Carrots, parsnips, or squash Fresh milk A potato DINNER Fresh peas, beans, squash, asparagus, or beets A baked potato Milk A whole wheat gem FALL MENU _FOR THE NURSING MOTHER_ BREAKFAST Cantaloup or a very ripe banana, with cream and figs Boiled rice or whole wheat Milk LUNCHEON Soup--cream of corn, peas, or rice Broiled fish A baked potato DINNER Celery, or lettuce, with nuts Fresh beans, turnips, carrots, or squash Corn bread or a baked potato Milk or cocoa WINTER MENU _FOR THE NURSING MOTHER_ BREAKFAST