Formulae For Infant Feeding. Scheme For Feeding Babies
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This section is from the book "Practical Dietetics: With Reference To Diet In Disease", by Alida Frances Pattee. Also available from Amazon: Practical Dietetics: With Reference to Diet in Disease.
Formulae For Infant Feeding. Scheme For Feeding Babies
Society of the Lying-in Hospital, New York City 1.
First Day
Give from nursing bottles 30 C.C. (1 ounce) of 6 per cent, sugar water every 3 hours, from 6:45 P. M. to 9:45 p. m., inclusive, and if necessary one bottle at 3:45 A. M.
Second Day
30 to 45 C.C. (1 ounce to 1½ ounce) of Formula No I in nursing bottle, every 2 hours from 6:45 A. M. to 10.45 p. m., and 3:45 A. M. - ten feedings.
Third Day
Same as second day.
Fourth Day
If there is milk in mother's breast, nurse every 2 hours as on second day. If there is no milk in mother's breast, 30 to 45 C.C. (1 ounce to 1½ ounce) of Formula No. II every 2 hours, as on second day.
Fifth And Sixth Day
For breast fed babies ten feedings as in second day. For bottle fed babies same as fourth day.
Seventh To Fourteenth Days
For breast fed babies ten feedings.
For bottle fed babies 30 to 75 C.C. (1 ounce to 2% ounces) of:
Formula No. III For Ten Feedings
Formulae.
Sugar Solution 6 per cent.:
Take 30 grams (1 ounce) sugar of milk and dissolve in 500 C.C. (1 pint) boiled water.
Formula No. I
Fat, 0.5 per cent.; sugar, 6 per cent.; proteid, 0.5 per cent.: Take 6 per cent, sugar solution, 7 parts.
1 Diet used at the Society of the Lying-in Hospital, New York City.
Plain milk 1 part, 60 C.C. (2 ounces) lime water for every 500 C.C. (1 pint) of food mixture.
Formula No. II
Fat, 1 per cent.; sugar, 6 per cent.; proteid, 0.5 per cent.:
Take 6 per cent. sugar solution, 7 parts; 12 per cent. cream ½ part; milk ½ part.
60 C.C. (2 ounces) limewater for every 500 C.C. (1 pint) of food mixture.
Formula No. III
Fat, 1.5 per cent.; sugar 6 per cent.; proteid 0.5 per cent.:
Take 6 per cent. sugar solution, 7 parts; 12 per cent. cream 1 part. 60 C.C. (2 ounces) limewater for every 500 C.C. (1 pint) of food mixture.
Formula No. IV
Fat, 2 per cent.; sugar 6 per cent.; proteid 0.6 per cent.:
Take 6 per cent., sugar solution, 5 parts; 12 per cent. cream 1 part.
60 C.C. (2 ounces) limewater for every 500 C.C. (1 pint) of food mixture.
Formula No. V
Fat, 2.5 per cent.; sugar 6 per cent.; proteid 0.8 per cent.
Take 6 per cent. sugar solution, 4 parts; 12 per cent. cream 1 part.
60 C.C. (2 ounces) limewater for every 500 C.C. (1 pint) of food mixture.
Notes
1. For every 500 C.C. (1 pint) of food mixture add 60 C.C. (2 ounces) of lime water.
2. 12 per cent. cream is the top fifth of a bottle of milk after standing about 5 hours.
3. It is the top 200 C.C. (7 ounces) of 1,000 C.C. (1 quart) of milk after standing about 5 hours.
4. If the milk is of rich quality the top 240 C.C. (8 ounces) can be taken.
5. Up to two weeks the amount of each feeding is 30 C.C. (1 ounce) to 75 C.C. (2½ ounces) according to weight, digestion and capacity.
From two to five weeks the amount of each feeding is 60 C.C. (2 ounces) to 100 C.C. (3½ ounces).
Number of daily feedings 10. From 6:45 a.m. to 10:45 p.m. From 10:45 P.m. to 6:45 a.m., one feeding should suffice.
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