G. F. Still. ‘Common Disorders and Diseases of Childhood.’ 1909.
Bl. 23. „There must be regularity in the feeding and, as a general
rule, I am strongly in favour of waking an infant for its feeds at the
proper time. If this is done from the beginning, the infant usually
very soon gets into the habit of waking just as the feed is due, and
goes off to sleep again quite easily after it. An infant should be fed
every two hours during the first two months, except at night, when the
intervals may be three hours: during the next month it should be fed
every two and a half hours by day, and three hours by night, and from
the end of the third month onwards it should be fed every three hours
by day and may miss one feed at night, until the age of six months,
when it may miss two feeds at night.”
Prof. Dr. George Peaslee Shears (New York). ‘Obstetrics normal and
operative.’ 1916.
Bl. 205. „The French seek to avoid maceration of the epithelium (nml.
van den tepel) by allowing the child to nurse but once in three hours.
My experience has led me to believe that many children cannot obtain
sufficient nourishment in this way, and I prefer (after the
establishment of the milk secretion), to adhere to the two or two and
one-half hour interval, giving both mother and child a rest between
midnight and morning.”
Bl. 207. „The child may be put to the breast (nml. na de bevalling)
after eight or ten hours, and after that every four hours for two or
three days, or until the milk secretion becomes established. One
interval at night may be extended to six or even eight hours in order
to give the mother a good period of restful sleep.”
‘Midwifery by ten teachers’ under the direction of Comyns Berkeley.
1917.
Bl. 566. „During the first two days the secretion of the breasts is but
small in quantity, and the child must not be put to the breast more
often than every six hours.... With the establishment of full
lactation, which generally occurs on the third or fourth day, the
infant must have its regular hours of feeding. It may be stated as
generally convenient if the infant has its first feed at 7 a.m.,
followed at 9.30 a.m. by its morning bath. After the bath the child has
its second feed, and after this feed and the fatigue of the bath, the
child may be allowed to rest for three hours. It is then fed regularly
every three hours, being awakened if necessary, until about 10.30
p.m..... After the first week the baby will be having its full feeds,
and will generally sleep till 7 a.m., with only one feed in the night.
In this way the infant will have seven feeds during the twenty-four
hours, and the mother and nurse will have a good night’s rest.”
Wie heeft gelijk?
Ik eindig met de opmerking, welke Jacobi in 1900 op een congres van
Amerikaansche geneeskundigen maakte, bij eene discussie over de beste
methode voor de voeding van zuigelingen:
„He had come with the idea, that he would learn how infants should be
fed, but he finds that he was mistaken, for every speaker has given a
different method. For his part, he thinks that, above all, the
physician should mix milk with.... brains. It is astonishing how handy
brains are in the practise of medicine. Every man told us how he feeds
babies, and every one thinks his way is right, but a lot of babies
think it is wrong,”
en ik voeg er bij:
„Time has come, that the babies tell us what they think to be the
best.”