Plunket Table For Artificial Feeding

NZ Truth, Issue 1229, 20 June 1929, Page 20

Plunket Table For Artificial Feeding

Composition of "■".'•- - No of Qzs.- -at Total . Food. » Inter Average Weight 0f ; A ge 0 f Baby. Feed- **<$ oap. In w °f£' -'Ozs. of vols !n ■■■ Hours of Feeding. - Babj - :,.>«». *%t 24 ? hrs. £££■ Boi|ed Hours.* , - ■■'. ■ . Milk. VN ate r* '■■■•' ttSw ' ' V ■ L »b 7 lb. ''".- 3rd day 6 1 6 ■ ' 3% 4% 3 6, 9, 12 noon, 3, 6, 10 p.m. ►,-•§ ■ 4th day 6 1% 9 3 6 3 do ; , do #+,„ sth day 7 6 2 12 5 7 3 do * do J-g . .?•& lb. -7 '-■ . 7th day 6 2% 15 7% 7% 3 do do +•£ 7% lb, ' 10th day 6- 3 38 11 7 3 do do -"S*-* Beginning of 3rd -week fi ' 2% 21 14 7 3 do do Q £ 7 Beginning of 4th week 6 4 24 18 6 3 do do +>ri,h 8% lb. Beginning of 2nd month 6 4*4, ,25% 21% 4 3 do do f n .o v 7 Middle of 2nd ihonth 6 4% x ' 25% 25y s .. 3 do do ?~£ 7 10% lb • Beginning of 3rd month fi 4%' 27 . 27 .. 3 do do .-'.§•s 7 Middle of 3rd month .5 5% 27% 27% .. 4 6, 10 a.m., 2, 6, 10 p.m. •*-*= 12% lb. Beginning of 4th month 5 6 30 30 .. .., 4 do, do '/» K,-^! 1-G% lb. Beginning of sth nionth 5.6%. 32% 32% .. 4 7do do 1 15 lb. Beginning of 6th month ji 5 7 35 35 .. 4. do do 2jsa 16 lb. ■ Beginning of 7th month 5 7 7%' 37% 37% .'. 4 .- do do 7 >t}2 -Bth and 9th months 5 '8 ,40 40 .. 4 do do *""■'<%> .ci ■' A' ' ■ '.'"■' ' ■-• v' ■- 7-' ! -' ' • ■■'• ■ ','■ ■'''■'' • '•-.,• •v ■ ■ ' ' - v '■ '■ J .

TNiß— Four-hourly feeding ;suits.' hiost babies from, the start; a~-few do better with three-hourly feeding for the first few months, and occasionally this may be* the case up to five months. --- i ■'•, "'"."'■ No Feeding Table can be an absolute guide as to the quantity, and strength of food best suited for. a given baby. For a time (especially m the \early months) InfaYits- with a tendency to weak digestion generally thrive better if the food specified m the Table Is lessened by one or more teaspoonsful per feeding, boiled water being added to dilute and make up quantity. Occasionally a young or delicate baby cannot take or retain enough diluted Humanised Milk, yet will do well If a smaller, allowance be given of full strength, in' such cases a little boiled water may be given between feedings to make up' fluid. For very young Or delicate babies one should sometimes shorten the period of "setting" for Top Milk. When a baby, who has previously been fed otherwise, is put on to Humanised Milk, the food must be diluted more than shown above, for a week or .'longer. AU the recipes for Humanised .Milk have been .purposely made from a fifteenth to a twelfth below the strength of the child's natural food. Therefore, If the baby is allowed 40 ozs. (as shown m tho Table, for use at 9 months), this is equiva-lent-to-about 37 ozs. of Human Milk— or more correctly only about 35 .or il6 ozs., because at least an ounce or two may be deducted for loss m the feeding-bottle, etc., and for the fact that human milk is more;perfect]y and completely "absorbed and used up m the system than any artificial preparation/ ' 7 A natural-fed baby rarely needs more than 35 ozs. at 9 months, and he may thrive best "with several ounces' less.