The Mother and Her Child | Page 2

The Bottle-Fed
Baby 147 XVII Milk Sanitation 156 XVIII Home Modification of Milk
165 XIX The Feeding Problem 177 XX Baby's Bath and Toilet 190
XXI Baby's Clothing 202 XXII Fresh Air, Outings, and Sleep 213
XXIII Baby Hygiene 222 XXIV Growth and Development 232

PART III
THE CHILD
XXV The Sick Child 251 XXVI Baby's Sick Room 266 XXVII
Digestive Disorders 274 XXVIII Contagious Diseases 285 XXIX
Respiratory Diseases 300 XXX The Nervous Child 308 XXXI Nervous
Diseases 323 XXXII Skin Troubles 333 XXXIII Deformities and
Chronic Disorders 341 XXXIV Accidents and Emergencies 348
XXXV Diet and Nutrition 360 XXXVI Caretakers and Governesses
370 XXXVII The Power of Positive Suggestions 380 XXXVIII Play
and Recreation 390 XXXIX The Puny Child 400 XL Teaching Truth
405 Appendix 427 Index 449

ILLUSTRATIONS
The mother and her child Frontispiece
FIGURE PAGE
1 Steps in early development 10 2 The "expectant" costume 23 3 The
photophore 43 4 Taking the blood pressure 48 5 Breast binder 59 6
How to hold the baby 110 7 Making the sleeping blanket 117 8 In the
sleeping blanket 118 9 Homemade ice box 149 10 Heating the bottle
151 11 A sanitary dairy 158 12 Articles needed for baby's feeding 167

13 Supporting the baby for the bath 194 14 Developmental changes
240 15 The cooling enema 290 16 X ray showing tuberculosis of the
lung 346 17 Father and Mother Corn and Morning Glory 406


PART I
THE MOTHER

THE MOTHER AND HER CHILD
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PART I
THE MOTHER
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CHAPTER I
THE EXPECTANT MOTHER
There can be no grander, more noble, or higher calling for a healthy,
sound-minded woman than to become the mother of children. She may
be the colaborer of the business man, the overworked housewife of the
tiller of the soil, the colleague of the professional man, or the wife of
the leisure man of wealth; nevertheless, in every normal woman in
every station of life there lurks the conscious or sub-conscious maternal
instinct. Sooner or later the mother-soul yearns and cries out for the
touch of baby fingers, and for that maternal joy that comes to a woman

when she clasps to her breast the precious form of her own babe.
MOTHERHOOD THE HIGHEST CALLING
Motherhood is by far woman's highest and noblest profession. Science,
art, and careers dwindle into insignificance when we attempt to
compare them with motherhood. And to attain this high profession, to
reach this manifest "goal of destiny," women are seeking everywhere to
obtain the best information, and the highest instruction regarding
"mothercraft," "babyhood," and "child culture."
In an Indiana town not long ago, at the close of a lecture, a small,
intellectual-appearing mother came forward, and, tenderly placing her
tiny and emaciated infant in my arms, said: "O Doctor! can you help
me feed my helpless babe? I'm sure it is going to die. Nothing seems to
help it. My father is the banker in this town. I graduated from high
school and he sent me to Ann Arbor, and there I toiled untiringly for
four years and obtained my degree of B. A. I have gone as far as I
could--spent thousands of dollars of my unselfish father's money--but I
find myself totally ignorant of my own child's necessities. I cannot even
provide her food. O Doctor! can't something be done for young women
to preparé them for motherhood?"
MOTHERCRAFT PREPARATION
The time will come when our high and normal schools will provide
adequate courses for the preparation of the young woman for her
highest profession, motherhood. This young mother, who had reached
the goal of Bachelor of Arts, found to her sorrow that she was entirely
deficient in her education and training regarding the duties and
responsibilities of a mother. In every school of the higher branches of
education that train young women in their late teens there should be a
chair of mothercraft, providing practical lectures on baby hygiene,
dress, bathing, and the general care of infants, and giving instruction in
the rudiments of simple bottle-feeding, together with the caloric values
of milk, gruels, and other ingredients which enter into the preparation
of a baby's food.

Young women would most enthusiastically enroll for such classes, and
as years passed and marriage came and children to the home, imagine
the gratitude that would flood the souls of the young mothers who were
fortunate enough to have attended schools where the chairs of
motherhood prepared them for these new duties and responsibilities.
EARLY MEDICAL SUPERVISION
Just as soon as it is known that a baby is coming into the home, the
expectant mother should engage the best doctor she can afford. She
should make frequent calls at his office and intelligently carry out