| Show infant s diseases perhaps the most troublesome and frequent complaint of very hil dren is that known as the colic colhoun ic aut but if we are to be accurate we shall not call every attack of indigestion which babies suffer colic for colic is really an affection of f the bowels and is far more painful than ordinary distress in the stomach colic too is as often given iven to the child through the mothers milk as it is through improper modes of nursing the child to begin with a mother who has a weak liver and who generates gas in her own stomach when she eats acid food is very apt to give colic to her babe even if she feed the child at proper and regular intervals if then the mother is thus affected it would be cruelty on her part to eat things which would induce this distress in her innocent baby I 1 have no patience with the barbarous mother who calmly eats cabbage and pickles with the co cold id blooded rema remark rk that baby must get used to it if the mother be strong of stomach and liver she can eat cabbage and onions all she pleases and if her bab baby yi is s fed at regular intervals neither i indigestion nd i nor colic will trouble the rest and sleep of her innocent infant therefore young mother watch yourself and use a little of the sense god gave you with some of the tenderness which came along with your babas birth and experience will show you what you and your baby can do and what to avoid I 1 hardly think baby wl will i I 1 have indigestion if you nurse him regularly and once in three hours if he does it is the fault of your diet and if he should you must dose him on hot water put hot clothes on his bowels and toast his feet at the fire then too you can give a little catnip or camomile tea if you wont put sugar in it and if the attack begins to look like genuine colic which you will know by the child drawing up its legs and stiffening in 9 with pain aia then get out your small bath tub fill 11 it i with very warm water put baby i in and let him stay as long as ten min minutes aites at least then wrap him up in a hot blanket and give him a full enema of quite warm water let him sip hot water every few moments and you will soon have the pleasure of seeing him go quietly to sleep now put him down in in a warm nice crib with either a bottle of hot water or a rubber bag of hot water at his feet and leave him to sleep for four or five hours if you have been the chief offender leave off on the offending food which gave baby the terrible distress or if you have been feeding him irregularly then begin at once to reform and never stop again dont put very much into his tender stomach when he wakes up for it is sore and will be slow to digest what he next receives of all the silly arguments which women women use to prove abat t t babies should not be nursed on hygienic principles I 1 think the most absurd is that a babas stomach is so small id like to know if it as big in proportion as yours or mine is how would it seem to have the baby made with a stomach that would hold three pints as yours and mine do and yet vet some folks try to put three pints into info a babas stomach and they act as if baby ought to eat his three pints every hour depend upon it nature knew exactly what she was about when she constructed babas stomach and he needs almost as much time to digest his food as you or I 1 do |
