Do not give slops; they lack nourishment and upset digestion. The days of water panada and cracker gruel are past. Five or six hours after delivery give a cup of hot milk, or a cream soup, or mutton broth, strained. When hunger comes, and not before, and this may be in ten or in twenty hours, give eggnog, without liquor, milk and lime water, milk and vichy, egg soup, chicken broth, cream of celery soup, mutton and oatmeal broth, mutton and cornmeal broth, matzoon, koumys or leban. On the third day, if all is well, add a milk puree of lentils, a soft-poached egg, milk toast, hot cup custard, Wheatena and cream, Cream of Wheat and cream, toast, plain or slightly buttered. On the fourth or fifth day, add to the foregoing a scraped meat cake, a bit of broiled chicken or bird, orange juice, well-baked whole wheat bread without shortening or sugar, soft and cup custards, chocolate, alkathrepta, cocoa, broma, strained oatmeal, cornmeal mush, baked potato and boiled rice. Do not urge the patient to overeat, with the idea of increasing the supply of milk. Digestion once upset brings bad results, and while the patient is in bed she requires less food. If complications arise the physician will suggest the change in diet.

Puree of lentils, made from lentil flour, and milk and chocolate preparations, are supposed to make rich milk in goodly quantities. Sometimes they do, and sometimes they do not, for the ability to nurse the infant depends largely on the healthful condition of the mother.

If hunger comes between the morning and the noonday meal, give the patient a glass of milk, or egg and milk. If constipation occurs give fruit juice early in the morning, and add a simply-cooked green vegetable and a salad to the noonday meal. Give a glass of water the last thing before retiring and the first thing in the morning. Use whole wheat bread exclusively.