Nearly all mothers dread baby's second summer. If the baby is born at such
a time that he cuts his double teeth during the hot weather, and if it is
attended by indigestion and fever, there is really some cause for worry,
because the digestive organs during the hot weather are more difficult to
manage than during the colder months; otherwise, if you feed your baby
carefully and properly, and with the regularity that you did in the early
months, there is no reason to dread the second summer, Mistakes are made
by mothers and grandparents especially. They permit the child to come to
the table and eat of the food prepared for adults. Sometimes it is only a
little, but that little will gradually grow larger; and even that little
may be enough to upset baby for weeks and then the illness that follows is
in reality due to the parents' own foolishness when it is laid to the
credit of the second summer, or regarded as "a mysterious dispensation of
Providence." Do not give anything to baby between its regular meals but
water; crackers, zwieback, and bread are prohibited between.