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the order of nature, as God designed she should do. But she gets her
reward even here. There is no period of woman’s life in which she
has so great enjoyment, such perfect physical health, as when she is
nursing the offspring of her own blood. Her shattered nerves and
broken health are poor pay for the so-called enjoyments of a
dissipated life.
But it will be said, there are cases in which it is impossible for a
mother to fulfill the office of nursing. She may be physically unable;
that is, she may not have any milk to give it; her health may be so
feeble, and her constitution so much depraved, that it would not be
admissible to do so. All this I admit; but such cases are the exception
and not the rule.
What are we to think of the mother who voluntarily permits her
child to nurse at another breast? How are we to regard the morals of
such a mother—one who willingly allows another person to gain the
affections of her child—for it always becomes more attached to the
one who nurses it than to its own parent? Besides, too, the character
of the one who suckles the child is, to a great degree, stamped upon
it, and that indelibly, too. Is a mother, then, willing that the child
shall take on the character of another, and of one whose disposition
and mental peculiarities she probably knows nothing? For one, I
cannot envy the man who has a wife that can willingly resign her
child to another to nurse.
Rules for Nursing.—After the birth of the child, the mother having
rested herself some hours from the pains and anxiety she has passed
through, it should be put to the breast with the view of exciting the
mammiferous glands to their proper and healthful action. This is
better for both mother and child. It may be necessary to make the
attempt a number of times, and perhaps for days before the lacteal
secretion will be found to take place. But letting the child every now
and then make the effort to get milk will be one of the most efficient
means of inducing it to flow.
How often to Nurse the Child.—This is a question of great
importance; great not less to the parent than the offspring, but one
which is by for too much neglected.
It may not be possible to ascertain exactly at what periods it is best
to give a child the breast; but one thing may be predicated with the
greatest confidence, which is, that there should be a regularity in
regard to it. To give the child the breast every half hour one day, and
then, perhaps, the next, for the mother to go away for many hours, is
certainly not a good practice.
I am led to believe, after having spent a good deal of thought on
this subject, that to nurse a child once in about three hours, is
perhaps as good a plan as can be fixed upon. Some have regarded
four hours as a proper period; but one thing I am satisfied of, that
the three hour rule is a good one; there is far more danger of nursing
the child too often than there is from the opposite extreme.
It is common, I believe, for mothers to allow the child to take the
breast during the night time. I am of the opinion that this practice,
likewise, is not a good one. How much do you become fatigued, worn
down, as it were, many of you, by allowing the child to take the
nipple as often as it chooses in the night? In such cases, how much
better you perceive it would be, to rest during the proper hours, so
that when the morning comes, instead of being unrefreshed and
stupid, you feel buoyant and elastic as a deer.
I am willing, however, to admit that it is probably the better rule
for the child to be nursed somewhat late at night; for example, when
you retire to rest; after that it should not be allowed nourishment till
morning.
At what time to cease Nursing.—This, too, is a question which
deserves a careful consideration—one on which the health of both
parent and offspring very much depends.
It is probably true that women in the civilized and refined parts of
the world do not, as a general fact, nurse their children for as long a
period as is the case among the savage nations.
The Indian women of our own country, it would appear, are in the
habit of continuing to suckle their children two years or more before
weaning them. Nor do they at all allow of cohabitation during this
period—a practice which might well be imitated by the more
enlightened portions of the human race. “I shall not undertake to
determine,” says Dr. Rush, “how far the wholesome quality of the
mother’s milk is increased by her (the Indian woman’s) refusing the
embraces of her husband during the time of giving suck.” If, then, the
mother’s milk is to be deteriorated by the practice referred to, her
health, also, must suffer in a corresponding ratio.
It would appear, also, that in Bible times the period of nourishing
children at the breast was prolonged to a much greater period than is
common in these latter times, for we read of the giving of suck three
years.
Reappearance of the Menses.—Some have supposed that the
period of nursing should be graduated according to the reappearance
of the catamenial discharge, because, as they have supposed, the
milk is deteriorated by that circumstance.
Let us inquire, in the first place, at what time after a woman has
given birth to a child, does the menstrual function ordinarily
commence?
Some authors tell us that this does not happen for nine or ten
months, usually. Dr. Meigs tells us that he expects his patients “to
become unwell at the seventh month of lactation.” “But more
frequently than is generally believed,” says Dr. Tilt, “the periodical
flow coincides with the secretion of milk as early as the second or
third month of lactation, and this in perfectly healthy women; and I
am in a great measure able to confirm the assertion of certain
authors, that menstruation often continues regularly from the
beginning of lactation.” These, however, are exceptional cases, the
rule being that a number of months, ranging probably from seven or
eight to fifteen, elapses before the menses reappear.
But it is by no means proved that lactation should be made to
cease as soon as the woman has her monthly discharge. I have myself
known numbers of cases in which nursing was continued for some
months after, and apparently with good results to both mother and
child. How is it in those cases where the menses do not cease at all,
or, at farthest, come on at a much earlier period than it would be
advisable to wean the child? Must we be obliged to wean the child in
these cases? I think not.
Dr. Hassall, of London, we are informed, examined with a
microscope the milk of a lady taken from her on the second day of
menstruation, which had come on for the first time at the ninth
month of lactation, and he reported that the milk was perfectly
normal in quality.
Dr. Tilt informs us that, having carefully interrogated one hundred
women in whom menstruation had returned at different periods of
lactation, he learned that the quantity and quality of the milk were
varied as follows:
The same in 45
Diminished only at the menstrual time 8
Completely checked in 1
Impoverished only at the menstrual time 5
Impoverished then and thenceforth 2
Increased at the menstrual time 24
A rush of milk afterward 15
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