This made the elder Cole feel very relieved and proud.

If only Julie and Ryan were still around. Ryan would definitely like his little brother.

In the following period, Cole Sr. often dreamed of Julie and Ryan, which made him a little sad, he felt that he was leaving, and he was reluctant to let little Chris go.

Because of the aggravated exertion in the past few years, as well as the perennial hunger, the old Cole's health has become worse and worse.

Finally, on a snowy night when Chris was seven years old, Cole Sr. didn't survive and died of illness.

Cole Sr. tells Chris that his mother, Julie, whom he has never met, and his eldest brother, Ryan, have come to pick him up......

That night, Chris sat in the snow all night without a single tear.

When Chris was first brought in, because there were no women in the family, just Cole, an old man, so there was no breast milk for the baby, so he had to use milk instead.

Ideally, milk for donkeys is the best option, but few people can afford it. Milk from sheep and goats is secondary, but it is still not readily available. At this time, milk is the most common.

Because many babies can't digest milk well, goat's milk is more in line with the digestive function of young children. Therefore, goat's milk is mostly bought out by middle-class people.

In order for Chris to drink milk and have life-sustaining nutrition, Cole borrowed money from people he knew, and finally bought a cow that could lay milk, tethered it to a big tree in the yard, and then Cole began to work hard to earn money.

As for why Cole didn't go to the market to buy ready-made milk, it was thanks to Ryan, whom Chris hadn't met.

In the first few weeks of life, babies usually eat milk diluted with an equal amount of water and supplemented with a small amount of sugar. It is likely that high-quality milk will be available in the countryside, but most of the milk sold in the city has been mixed with water or dyed.

In order to increase their meager profits, the vendors can be said to be heartbroken. The amount of milk in towns can be much more than 50 per cent, and milk tends to be very low in fat due to harsh living conditions and inadequate feed. This second-rate mixture of milk and water often has a pale blue color, and vendors add toners such as chalk and alum to it to make it look more like normal, healthy milk.

In order to earn more money, the former Mrs. Cole, Julie, gave Ryan two weeks of cheap milk from the market during her breastfeeding.

As you can imagine, poor little Ryan had diarrhea for three days, and it took the young Cole and his wife several halves to get him back to health, and Julie never bought milk from the market again.

Doctors in Ireland recommend boiling milk before giving it to a baby. This is because it is more conducive to the baby's digestion and is also effective in killing bacteria. Unfortunately, while doing so, a lot of nutrients are also destroyed.

Cow's milk gives babies a better chance of survival than bread and water, but it's not enough for the nutrients babies need. For this reason, Cole often buys some sago or arrowroot. Cook the sago until it is pureed and strain it before mixing it with milk and sugar, which provides a small amount of starch.

Because spoon feeding is not only slow, but also easily wasted, more food often leaks than babies eat.

So Cole cut down on a few days of sleep and made a pacifier out of the mammary glands of calves bought at the market. Cole boiled it repeatedly in water to soften the texture and tied it to the mouth of the bottle with a string.

Of course, there are also people here who wrap small sponges in soft suede or a few folded sheets of linen to use as pacifiers. However, most people agree that nipples made from calf's mammary glands are the safest.

Fortunately, when Chris was one year old, he would order food for himself.

The clothes and diapers that Chris needed as a baby were bought by Cole and Mrs. Erin next door for 2 halso. Of course, these are all handmade by Erin. Diapers here are usually large, 3 feet square, and can be folded out of various styles of diapers for babies of different ages.

Every night Cole comes home, Chris sees him washing his diapers. Because Chris only had two diapers to change, the whole process of washing diapers was really laborious.

Regardless of the class, used diapers must be cleaned, otherwise it is easy to get diaper rash. As a result, diaper pails have become a necessity for most families, regardless of their class.

Cole shakes the diaper on the night pot so that the dirt attached to it can be poured directly into the toilet. Next, soak the diaper in a bucket of cold water and pour a pinch of salt or a little baby sanitizer into the water to make the diaper soak cleaner.

Throughout the soaking process, Cole closes the lid of the diaper bucket so that the smell doesn't waft out. Before washing the diaper, Cole also dissipates the dirty water and rinses the diaper again. This soaking and washing method removes 95% of the stains.

After this process, Cole was able to wash the diaper as he normally would.

It wasn't until later that Chris learned that most poor families don't have such complicated steps. Because they don't have much time or extra money to buy diapers.

You can only spread the oil market on a crib with straw, and then put the bare-bottomed baby directly in it. This drastically reduces the need for linen fabrics and also reduces the burden of laundry.

If the amount of straw is spread just right, babies can stay clean and less likely to develop diaper rash while lying on the messy bed.

That's how Ryan was treated in the past, because the young Cole couple didn't have that much time to wash diapers, and they worked more than twelve hours a day to keep the family fed and clothed, while Cole's parents were still alive.

Every day, as soon as Cole comes home, he takes off Chris's diaper and bathes him with a pot of hot water that has been boiled in the kitchen.

In the poor of Federenburg, taking a hot bath is still a luxury, and more people are still used to cold showers. It is said to improve blood circulation, but the soap does not dissolve in cold water, which means it does not foam. Therefore, those who are used to taking cold showers still have to take a hot shower once a week to remove oil from their bodies.

Cole poured hot and cold water into the basin, tested the temperature with his hands, dipped a little soap in a soft flannel towel, and began to scrub Chris's body.

Because of the small person, I helped Chris scrub it clean in a short time.

After bathing, apply a clean layer of lard to Chris's clean and dry little buttocks, which effectively isolates the baby's urine from the skin and prevents the skin from ulcering or stinging.

For both the poor and the rich, the so-called baby barrier cream is actually lard.

Some of the ladies in Ireland make their own or buy scented baby creams, just like their own hand creams. But in essence, they are still just lard.

Then change into a clean diaper, wrap yourself in a soft baby gown, place it on a small wooden bed next to the queen-size bed, and carefully cover it with a small blanket bought from the second-hand market.

Then Cole quickly stood up and scrubbed himself with cold water, using the same rough towel he had used for several years. Then, after brushing a few minutes with a wooden toothbrush made of horsehair and a "tooth cleaner" made of charcoal powder and salt, he changed into patched cotton and linen pajamas and went to sleep.

Although the bedroom had an iron stove that burned coal, Cole never lit it.

Cole doesn't leave work until 8 a.m. every day, and it takes an hour to finish his own dinner and Chris's milk and food.

Then it was time to wash Chris's diapers and his own clothes, which would take another hour.

After washing the pots and dishes and clothes, it is time for the two to take a bath, which is about half an hour, and the hot water is boiled during the laundry.

Eventually, Cole began making things for the new members of the family, such as the small wooden bed, which took Cole a month, two hours a day.

There is also the possibility of making some wooden toys for Chris in the future.

Every morning at 5 a.m., Cole starts to wake up in the cold.

Poor families do not have clocks here, and the high price of clocks makes them unaffordable for the working class.