OUR BABIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2544, 3 July 1909, Page 4 (Supplement)

OUR BABIES.

Published under the auspices of the Society for the Promotion of the Health of Women and Children. (By Hygeia.) NEW FEEDING BOTTLE. A series of patient, careful investigations made by leading authorities on the Continent during the last few years, with a view to ascertaining precisely how often and for how long a baby should be suckled, or fed artificially, leave no room for doubt on tho subject. Hitherto the baby has undoubted;; been fed too frequently, and very often he has been allowed to suck too long as -well. The table given below shows at a glance the conclusions arrived at, but it should be mentioned that even during the first month of life the majority of babies doj best if fed only every three hours, and not every two and a-half hours, as shown in the table. However, it is perhaps too much to expect mothers, grandmothers, and nurses to immediately give up their preconceptions as to frequent feeding being best, so we show feedings every two and a-half hours during the first month, with a footnote pointing to tho fact that three-hour intervals may be substituted with advantage. Of course the quantity allowed at each feeding must be increased if the longer inter-

THE ORIGIN OF AMBER. ITS GRADUAL ToitMAU^iN. How did nature make amber? Various answers have gathered round the ■question. Some writers upon gems, impressed by its beauty, have classed, amber as an ornamental stone. Others have supposed it to be an anima product, a vegetable gum, and a fossil. Its proper place is now established. Though it is dug from the earth in some localities, like coal or' ironstone, it cannot be classed as one of the family. Its origin was vegetable, and vegetable of a most respectable antiquity. When we admire the beauty of tho commonest artie’es into which this subject is shaped, tho beads, the buttons, the friendh’ pipe stem, and so forth—how seldom do we think that their loveliness tells a very long story. The story goes back to the Tertiary period—that is, the period in tho earth’s earliest history when the present order, both of vegetable and animal life, was fairly set agoing, and began to increase rapidly, when mammalia, had become abundant, and when type and species followed each other. It was during this period that amber took its beginning. It began as the resin of* certain trees which grew and, flourished, but have long since become extinct. Not a remnant of these trees is above the ground now ; the waves of the Baltic cover the land where they stood. Their resin, buried in tho earth, where in the course of time, it hardened and mineralised, is the only vestige that remains. Everybody has heard of the proverbial fly in the amber. In some oases a wing or a leg may be separated from tho rest of the body—a circumstance which tells its own tale of a struggle for freedom. How strange bodies get into amber has been asked again and again. The case of the fly is app icable to all the others, and the explanation of its imprisonment is very simple. We can imagine the fly settling or crawling on a tree, and becoming entangled in the thin, sticky exudation, which gradually hardens around it. That the exudation was in a thin condition is inferred from the fact that even the most delicate parts of the insects buried in amber are preserved practically uninjured.

Tals ore aat >P tea - TABLE OF INFANT FEEDING. The Day Feedings are supposed to begin at 6 a.m. and end at 10 P- m

W & s ' =>tH u<* ■ S.g • Approximate Total Number of cj S 5;w.2 4» *-< cS ® Age bfl °^3 dumber of Ounces m u ? HOURS FOR FEEDING. of °.s 3 to 2 to be Given Ounces $ 5 © o 1 -4^ tD rt -o h c3 0; rys r Baby. o 9 pD gfo 55 © S 55 «.g HH si op. At Each Feeding. for 24 Hours. _ hW CS p Day. & bO 55 71b 3rd day 6 1 7 • 1 7 3 6, 9, 12 noon 3, 6, 9, or 10 p.m. 2 5th day 7 1 8 H 10 21* 6, 8.30, 11 a.m. 1.30, 4,6.30, 9or 10 p.m. 2 7Jlb 7th day 7 1 8 11 14 21* 6, 8.30, 11 a.m. 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9 or 10 p.m. 2 2nd week 7 1 8 2 increasing to 21 16 increasing to 20 21* 6, 8.30, 11 a.m. 1.30, 4, 0.30, 9 or 10 p.m. 2 3rd week 7 1 8 21 increasing to 3 20 increasing to 24 21* 6, 8.30, 11 a.m. 1.30. 4, 6.30, 9 or 10 p.m. 2 811b 4th week 7 1 6 3 increasing to 31 24 increasing to 26 21* 6, 8.30, 11 a.m. 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9 or i0 p.m 2 1011b 2nd month 6 1 8 31 increasing to 4 26 increasing to 28 3 6. 9,12 noon 3, 6, 9 or 10 p.m. 2 12ilb 3rd month 6 .7 41 increasing to 5 28 increasing to 30 3 6, 9,12 noon 3, 6, 9 or 10 p.m. 13|lb 4th month 6 ... 6 5 increasing to 51 30 increasing to 33 3 " 6, 9,12 noon 3, 6, 9 or 10 p.m. 15 lb 5th month 6 ... 6 51 increasing to 6 33 increasing to 36 3 6, 9, 12 noon 3, 6, 9 or 10 p.m. 1611b 6th and 7th 5 ... 5 71 increasing to 8 371 increasing to 40 '4 6, 10 a.m. 2, 6,' 10 p.m. 18 lb 8tli and 9th 5 5 8 increasing to 81 40 increasing to 42 4 6, 10 a.m. 2,» 6, 10 p.m. *Note.— Healthy babies of average weight at birth from the third day until the end of the first month need be fed only every three hours instead of every two and a-half hours •as shown in the table.