─────────┬────────┬────────┬───────┬───────┬─────────┬─────┬────────────────── _Age_ │ _Milk_ │_Water_ │_Barley│ _Lime │ _Sugar_ │_No. │ _Hours_ │ │ │Water_ │Water_ │ │ of │ │ │ │ │ │ │feed-│ │ │ │ │ │ │ings_│ ─────────┼────────┼────────┼───────┼───────┼─────────┼─────┼──────────┬─────── │ │ │ │ │ │ │ _Day_ │_Night_ ═════════╪════════╪════════╪═══════╪═══════╪═════════╪═════╪══════════╪═══════ 3–7 days │3 ozs.│7 ozs.│ │½ ozs.│2 tea- │ 7 │6–9–12–3–6│10–2 │ │ │ │ │ spoons│ │ │ 2d week │5 „ │10 „ │ │1 „ │1½ table-│ 7 │6–9–12–3–6│10–2 │ │ │ │ │ spoons│ │ │ 3d „ │6 „ │10½ „ │ │1 „ │1½ „ │ 7 │6–9–12–3–6│10–2 1 month│7 „ │11 „ │ │1 „ │2 „ │ 7 │6–9–12–3–6│10–2 2 „ │11 „ │13 „ │ │1½ „ │2½ „ │ 7 │6–9–12–3–6│10–2 3 „ │16 „ │ │16 ozs.│2 „ │3 „ │ 7 │6–9–12–3–6│10–2 4 „ │19 „ │ │15 „ │2 „ │3 „ │ 6 │6–9–12–3–6│10 5 „ │21½ „ │ │14 „ │2 „ │3 „ │ 6 │6–9–12–3–6│10 6 „ │24 „ │ │12 „ │2 „ │3 „ │ 5 │6–10–2–6 │10 7 „ │26 „ │ │12 „ │2 „ │3 „ │ 5 │6–10–2–6 │10 8 „ │28 „ │ │11 „ │2 „ │2½ „ │ 5 │6–10–2–6 │10 9 „ │30 „ │ │10 „ │2 „ │2 „ │ 5 │6–10–2–6 │10 ─────────┴────────┴────────┴───────┴───────┴─────────┴─────┴──────────┴─────── An entire bottle feeding is sometimes given to a baby who is nursing satisfactorily at the breast, in order to give his mother an opportunity to take longer outings than are possible between the regular nursings. And sometimes it is to the mother’s advantage, and therefore to the baby’s, to give him a bottle during the night and thus allow her to sleep undisturbed. COMMERCIAL BABY FOODS Since the baby’s nourishment is prescribed by the doctor, you have no reason to concern yourself with the various proprietary baby foods and canned and powdered milks that are so persuasively advertised to young mothers. And I earnestly hope that by the time you finish this little book, no one will be able to make you believe that any of these foods is likely to be satisfactory if used as a sole article of diet throughout the bottle-feeding period. Unquestionably there are many times and circumstances when the temporary or supplementary use of a prepared infant food or canned or powdered milk is advantageous.