At the beginning of 7th or 8th month, or earlier if necessary, it is advisable to add orange juice, giving from 1-2 tablespoonfuls between the two morning feedings.[77]
After the 4th month it is well to eliminate the night feeding between 10 P.M. and 6 A.M.
At end of 11th month add 1-2 pieces of stale bread, toast or zwieback. Part of soft-cooked egg may be given every other day at noon meal by end of 11th month. The orange juice may be increased to 3 tbs. if bowels are not loose.
The strained cereal should be given twice daily by the end of the first year, and the milk should be undiluted at this time unless the digestion of the infant forbids.
Cooled boiled water should be given several times each day between feedings. Babies cry from thirst as well as from hunger.
Scheme based on Dr. Richard M. Smith's "The Baby's First Two Years."
A full-term baby will usually take a formula made as follows:
Cream 2 ounces Skimmed milk 2 ounces Boiled water 12 ounces Sugar of milk 6 level tsp.
After 3d day increase cream and milk at the rate of 1 ounce each week, and sugar 1 tsp. every other day until at one month the baby will be receiving a formula such as--
Cream 5 ounces Skimmed milk 5 ounces Boiled water 22 ounces Sugar of milk 3-1/2 level tbs.
Cream 6 ounces Skimmed milk 6 ounces Boiled water 20 ounces Sugar of milk 4 level tbs.
From this point the formula may be increased by adding 2 ounces of skimmed milk each month until the baby is eight months old. For each ounce of milk added, an equal amount of water should be omitted. The sugar in the formula should be reduced one half tbs. every three months.
Cream 6 ounces Skimmed milk 14 ounces Boiled water 12 ounces Sugar of milk 3-1/2 level tbs.
Cream 6 ounces Skimmed milk 18 ounces Boiled water 8 ounces Sugar of milk 3 level tbs.
This amount will not be found sufficient in quantity for a twenty-four-hour mixture for children of this age. Increasing the amount of the last formula in the same proportion, it will be--
Cream 9 ounces Skimmed milk 27 ounces Boiled water 12 ounces Sugar of milk 4-1/2 level tbs.
At this age the formula usually may be changed so as to be made from whole milk instead of cream and skimmed milk. The formula may be made as follows:
