Word: milks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After weaning the mother will find that her milk production powers wane until they stop. Secretion of milk depends on the drainage the suckling child sets up, and continues until that suckling ceases...
...Health Stations the nursing mothers come. They are given a minute physical examination to make certain that no child contracts disease from them. Their diet is inquired into, because certain products (like garlic) in the nurse's food would make the milk unpleasant. If all is well, a certain amount of milk is taken from their breasts, an amount carefully regulated so that the natural child will not be starved. Some mothers yield only 3 to 4 ounces* a day. Others give 15 to 20 ounces. The average output approximates 10 ounces a day. For this milk the nurse...
...more milk taken, the greater drain on her vitality. Good milkers get their carfares paid. This milk is set in copiers and later each day is distributed to hospitals and individual mothers. The impoverished can get it free. Other private patients and hospitals pay 15¢ to 25¢ an ounce. Last year the Federation paid out $7,000 for the 1860 quarts of milk produced, or $3.70 a quart** The cost for handling an ounce was 23¢. There was no profit...
...Milk. At childbirth the mother's breasts yield a yellowish, sticky fluid called colostrum. This is good for the child, although it is only slightly nourishing. Yet it is laxative and prepares the child's stomach for true milk, which arrives shortly after...
...Milk production begins in the mother after delivery of the child. It continues as long as needed, although prolonged nursing is harmful to her and not especially good for the child...