As soon as possible accustom the child to the habit of nursing every two hours. If there is a proper interval between the times of nursing, the child draws with more avidity, actually empties the breast, and obtains that part that contains the most cream. Endeavor also to have the intervals longer at night, so that, from 10 P. M. to 6 A. M., it nurses but once or twice. Still, if it wakes every two or three hours, demands its supply of nourishment, and you cannot otherwise quiet the child, you must indulge it. Do not accustom the child to sleeping on the mother’s breast. If it sleep in its own crib or bed, properly clothed and protected, it is less liable to have its rest disturbed. Avoid the custom of having a young child sleep with old and sickly persons, and also of having them sleep in ill-ventilated rooms, and of covering the child’s face as it sleeps. There is danger that a child may die from want of pure fresh air, from having its face pressed tightly in the embrace of the person with whom it sleeps, from the multiplicity of its clothes, and from the mass of bedclothing used by the mother, as well as from improper food. A child should never be covered to sweat by reason of the warmth of its clothing, or of that of the apartment. If the mother does not enjoy good health, it may be better for her not to nurse the child at night, but to have it fed once or twice with a little diluted cow’s milk at night, and to nurse it during the day. The following have been named as CAUSES WHY THE MOTHER CANNOT PROPERLY NURSE THE CHILD: 1. When she cannot have a sufficient quantity of milk. 2. When the supply falls off from some defect which is not remediable. 3. When there is a strong venereal or scrofulous taint in the constitution. 4. When suckling produces an active or painful disease in the mother, as colic, etc. 5. When the mother is subject to great nervous debility; possesses an irascible temperament, and cannot avoid grief and sorrow; and also when she is suffering from certain hereditary chronic diseases. WHEN A MOTHER CANNOT SUCKLE HER CHILD, if circumstances will allow, a healthy wet-nurse should be procured. Choose one that is of a healthy family; ascertain that there are no eruptions on her skin, or if there be other disease; if she have a plentiful breast of milk, and if it be of a good quality; if she has good nipples, and if her child is born near the time that the one was that she is to nurse. Do not get a nurse that menstruates during suckling, nor one that has a child which is unhealthy, or has a sore mouth or blotches upon the skin. Very feeble new-born babes cannot take the breast sometimes. In such cases cow’s milk, water and sugar (F. 1) may be given in small quantities at a time, but frequently repeated. If it takes only a teaspoonful at a time it should be repeated every half hour.