Letter to Emma from her daughter Beth Ford, Kansas Fall 1924 Tuesday p.m. Dear Mamma, ...... Lots of the time we laid the headset down and I could hear in bed nursing the baby. The set is where the sewing machine stood, so you can see how it carried. Last night was bad for static. We had a thunderstorm and quite a rain with more threatening, and cold weather threatening too. ......................................... Tell Jennie to feed herself lots of cocoa made rich. I drank it for supper and have materially increased my milk, also I am drinking more water as I remember to. Robert wasn't getting enough. I know he got three ounces and once four when we weighed him before and after nursing last week. Yesterday we weighed him before and after every feeding and once he got eight ounces. He averaged over five, though twice I gave him both breasts. My right one caked day before yesterday, and was pretty sore yesterday but is soft again today. Joe says it was because I made more milk than the baby took. I don't know. He gained two ounces from Tuesday till Sunday and will do better, I believe this week. He is still constipated, but is good mostly. He has got to putting his feet straight up in the air and is nearly impossible to keep covered. Tell Jennie to eat bran too. We keep it all the time for the cows. What one eats makes a difference. It certainly does with them, so why not with us. ........................ Beth The baby was 4 months old, her sister had a new infant, her fourth. This is from family letters that I am transcribing. Pat Thomas PHN IBCLC Winona County Community Health Department Winona, MN, USA *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html