Part 47

DINNER

Vegetable soup Two green vegetables; selection from list given above Corn, lima beans, or a potato Milk or tender fish A small portion of ice-cream (optional)

FALL MENU

FOR THE PREGNANT WOMAN

BREAKFAST

Cantaloup or pears Rice, with cream Milk Two tablespoonfuls of wheat bran

LUNCHEON

Celery Turnips or cauliflower Fish or fowl A potato

DINNER

A light vegetable soup Lettuce, or celery, with nuts Two fresh vegetables A baked potato Cheese, raisins, and nuts

WINTER MENU

FOR THE PREGNANT WOMAN

BREAKFAST

Two or three baked bananas, with cream (See recipe, p. 677) Two eggs or two glasses of milk Oatmeal--a small portion

LUNCHEON

A sweet potato Two or three glasses of milk

DINNER

Cream of rice soup Two fresh vegetables A potato or bran meal gems Milk or cheese Nuts and raisins

THE NURSING MOTHER

SUGGESTIONS FOR THE DIET

The nursing mother should omit all acid fruits, pickles, and condiments containing vinegar. She should eat sparingly of sweets, especially of the pastry and soda-fountain variety. She should omit such vegetables as radishes, cucumbers, cabbage, and sourcrout.

Fresh corn and dried beans often produce serious intestinal trouble in the young child. Eggs should never be eaten when there is the slightest fever.

The diet of the nursing mother should be confined chiefly to the more readily digestible foods such as are named in the menus which follow.

SUGGESTIONS FOR NURSING

The mother should remember that her baby should never be nursed when she is tired, fatigued, overheated, angry, frightened, excited, or laboring under any mental disturbance. Both her mental and her physical condition are instantly conveyed to the child, through her milk, often in exaggerated form. Children are sometimes thrown into convulsions by nursing the breast of an excited mother.

SUGGESTIONS FOR RELIEVING INTESTINAL CONGESTION

If either mother or child has a tendency toward intestinal congestion (constipation), the mother should take wheat bran, thoroughly cooked, with both the morning and the evening meal; or, a few drops of prune juice, given to the child, will often relieve this condition, while affording an excellent source of nourishment.

SPRING MENU