The Care and Feeding of Children

A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses

L. Emmett Holt

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9785501700437
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

The catechism of American child-rearing for forty years: feeding by the clock, fresh air, cold baths, the exact composition of modified milk, and what to do about crying. Holt was the leading pediatrician of his day and wrote it in question-and-answer form for nurses and mothers in 1894. Half of it saved lives; the other half is the reason a generation was raised on schedules, and both halves are here to be read. Fifty-seven paintings from 1838 to 1914, among them Mary Cassatt and John Frederick Kensett, gather the quiet interiors and open skies of the world Holt's mothers and nurses moved through.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Bathing
• Genital Organs
• Eyes
• Mouth
• Skin
• Clothing
• Napkins
• Nursery
• Airing
• Weight, Growth, and Development
• Dentition
• Nursing
• Weaning
• Artificial Feeding
• The Selection and Care of Milk Used for Infant Feeding
• The Modification of Cow’s Milk
• Food for Healthy Infants—The Early Months
• Formulas for the Early Months from 10-Per-Cent Milk
• Second Series. Formulas for the Early Months from 7-Per-Cent Milk
• Food for Healthy Infants—The Later Months
• Third Series. Formulas for the Early Months from 7-Per-Cent Milk
• General Rules for Guidance in the Use of the Formulas Given
• The Addition of Other Foods to Milk
• Overfeeding
• Loss of Appetite
• The Changes in the Food Required by Special Symptoms or Conditions
• Fourth Series. Formulas from Plain Milk (Containing 4-Per-Cent Fat)
• Common Mistakes in Milk Modification and Infant Feeding
• Preparation of Cow’s Milk at Home
• Directions for Feeding Infants
• Intervals of Feeding
• Schedule for Feeding Healthy Infants During the First Year
• Regularity in Feeding
• Sterilized Milk
• Modified Milk of the Milk Laboratories
• Peptonized Milk
• Feeding During the Second Year
• Feeding During the Third Year
• Part III The Diet of Older Children (Fourth to Tenth Year)
• Milk and Cream
• Eggs
• Meat and Fish
• Vegetables
• Cereals
• Broths and Soups
• Bread, Crackers and Cakes
• Desserts
• Fruits
• Indigestion in Older Children
• General Rules to Be Observed in Feeding
• Food Formulas
• The Bowels
• Sleep
• Exercise
• The Cry
• Lifting Children
• The Temperature
• Nervousness
• Toys
• Kissing
• Convulsions
• Foreign Bodies
• Colic
• Earache
• Croup
• Contagious Diseases
• Scurvy
• Constipation
• Diarrhoea
• Bad Habits
• Vaccination
• About the Author