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. For The Nursing Mother

Breakfast

Plain boiled wheat, with cream

Fresh milk

A baked potato or a baked banana

Luncheon

Fresh milk or eggs; milk preferred Corn bread or bran meal gems Onions, en casserole

Dinner

Cream of corn soup Spinach or turnip greens A potato, peas, or asparagus Plain gelatin, with cream

Summer Menu. For The Nursing Mother

Breakfast

Cantaloup or a very ripe, sweet peach One egg

Flaked wheat, very thoroughly cooked A glass or two of milk

Luncheon

Vegetable soup

Corn bread or bran gems

Carrots, parsnips, or squash

Fresh milk

A notato

Dinner

Fresh peas, beans, squash, asparagus, or beets

A baked potato

Milk

A whole wheat gem

Fall Menu. For The Nursing Mother

Breakfast

Cantaloup or a very ripe banana, with cream and figs Boiled rice or whole wheat Milk

Luncheon

Soup - cream of corn, peas, or rice Broiled fish A baked potato

Dinner

Celery, or lettuce, with nuts

Fresh beans, turnips, carrots, or squash

Corn bread or a baked potato

Milk or cocoa

Winter Menu. For The Nursing Mother

Breakfast

A dish of cereal, well cooked - simmered over night

Eggs or milk

Whole wheat gems or a corn muffin

Luncheon

Vegetable or cream soup Winter squash or carrots A sweet or a white potato Milk

Dinner

Parsnips, turnips, or squash

A potato

Bran gems

Milk

(Egg custard, if something sweet is desired)