ARTIFICIAL DIET FOR INFANTS

ARTIFICIAL DIET FOR INFANT

It needs to resemble breast milk as closely as feasible. The following ratios of sugar, water, and cow's milk create this. 

Two-thirds fresh cow's milk; one-third boiling water (or thin barley water); and enough loaf sugar to make it sweet. 

For the first six months, this is the greatest diet to follow; after that, you can mix in some farinaceous foods.Mothers have an unhealthy practice of feeding thick gruel, panada, biscuit powder, and other such foods to their infants throughout the early stages of life, believing that a lighter diet will not nourish them. This is a mistake since the preparations are far too substantial, overfilling the stomach and resulting in gas, indigestion, and griping. These make purgative and carminative medications necessary, which further impair digestion and, by unnatural irritation, prolong the conditions that call for them. As a result, a lot of newborns are kept in a never-ending cycle of vomiting, dyspepsia, and purging while being given cordials and opioids. These babies wouldn't require medical attention if their diet was balanced in terms of amount and quality to meet their digestive capacities.

Getting pure milk—not skimmed or combined with water—and fresh milk from the cow in warm weather are crucial when preparing this diet. Every meal must be made fresh, therefore it shouldn't be combined with water or sugar until the child requests it, and it shouldn't be made over what the child will consume at that moment. It is preferable to give the baby tepid or lukewarm milk instead of heating it over the fire and mixing it with boiling water. 

As the infant advances in age, the proportion of milk may be gradually increased; this is necessary after the second month, when three parts of milk to one of water may be allowed. But there must be no change in the kind of diet if the health of the child is good, and its appearance perceptibly improving. Nothing is more absurd than the notion, that in early life children require a variety of food; only one kind of food is prepared by nature, and it is impossible to transgress this law without marked injury.

via the spoon and via the nursing bottle, there are two methods. The first should never be used at this time because infants have very weak digestive systems and are naturally designed to take food very slowly into their stomachs. This is because when an infant sucks, a large amount of saliva is secreted into the mouth, where it mixes with the milk and is swallowed along with it. Therefore, it is best to mimic this natural process as much as possible. To do this, food should be ingested by suction from a nursing bottle. This allows for a steady and methodical acquisition of the food, while the suction mechanism secures the mixing of an appropriate amount of saliva,This has a significant impact on digestion. It is important to remember that maintaining cleanliness is crucial for the successful implementation of any child-rearing strategy, regardless of the type of bottle or teat utilized. 

 The child's age and digestive capacity should be taken into consideration when determining how much food they should eat at each meal. A watchful and attentive mother will soon be able to discern this stage with a little practice. Naturally, the amount of course needs to rise as the youngster ages. The most common mistake made by parents when raising their children is overfeeding. This is a very serious mistake that can be easily avoided if the parent follows a systematic plan regarding feeding hours, only gives in to signs of hunger, and feeds the child slowly and in small amounts at a time. This is the only effective strategy to safeguard the infant's healthy nutrition and, as a result, constitution strength while also preventing indigestion, bowel issues, and the irritable nervous system condition that is so common in infancy. As has often been noted, "We can be confident that when they are required, nature never meant for the infant's stomach to be transformed into a container for antacids, laxatives, carminatives, stimulants, and astringents. that, whatever how flawless it may appear to us, there is a problem with our management." 

Generally speaking, the frequency of feeding should be established by allowing enough time to pass between meals to ensure that the previous portion has been fully digested. This can be set at around every three or four hours. If this guideline is broken and the child is fed fresh food every hour or so, there will need to be more time for the previous amount to be digested. As a result, the food will enter the bowel undigested, ferment, and turn sour, which will unavoidably cause cholic and purging and in no way aid in the child's nutrition. 

The child's stance during feeding: This needs to be taken care of. Its head should be lifted on the nurse's arm, which is the most natural position and ensures that there is no chance of food traveling the wrong way, as it is termed when it is fed. It must not be fed lying down. Following every meal, the child should spend at least thirty minutes in its cot or resting on its mother's knee. Just as exercise is crucial for promoting health at other times, it is also necessary for the digestive process. 

Upon the child's teething, which usually occurs at this time, solid farinaceous matter can be used by boiling it in water, sifting it through a sieve, and combining it with a tiny amount of milk. Alternatively, tops and bottoms are soaked in hot water, and sweetened with loaf sugar and fresh milk. And the child can now be fed with a spoon for the first time.

The same food can be resumed; a sieve need not be used once one or two of the huge grinding teeth have emerged. periodically, you can add chicken broth and beef tea. You may also introduce yourself to a more entirely animal-based diet by periodically having a piece of soft-boiled egg. Eventually, you can have dinner as a little bread pudding made with just one egg. 

There's nothing more typical than parents feeding their kids animal chow around this time. This is a grave mistake: "To feed a young animal food before it has the teeth necessary to chew it, is to completely ignore nature's obvious cues, as these teeth should not be removed until the body needs them to chew solid food. Additionally, pounding and grating meat as a replacement for chewing may work well for toothless octogenarians whose stomachs can handle it; but, small children's stomachs are not designed for this kind of food and will become upset if they eat it.

It is not tenable to argue that the teeth of an adult, equipped with the teeth of both carnivorous and graminivorous animals, and the teeth of a kid, without teeth, were created by God for the same type of food. If the ability to properly chew solid food—vegetable or animal—and combine it with saliva is required for digestion, then solid food cannot be appropriate for someone who lacks this ability.If it is swallowed in large masses it cannot be masticated at all, and will have but a small chance of being digested; and in an undigested state it will prove injurious to the stomach and to the other organs concerned in digestion, by forming unnatural compounds. The practice of giving solid food to a toothless child, is not less absurd, than to expect corn to be ground where there is no apparatus for grinding it. In the former case, what would be deemed as proof of lunacy or idiotism in the latter is upheld and practiced. However, if the solid substance—vegetable or animal—is first broken up into small pieces to avoid this problem, the baby will swallow it right away, but it won't be combined with saliva. However, in the daily gaze