Accustom Baby To Many Ways Of Lying Down n By 1 MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED After the baby is six weeks of age and well able to lift his head the most comfortable of sleeping positions positions positions is on the stomach Many babies show a a. most determined determined determined deter deter- mined preference for this position and it is said with truth that ba- ba Your Baby bies bles manage to belch more easily when in this position so th that t it is most conducive to sound slumber after a filling meal Up to Baby But the way a a. baby insists upon sleeping is a a. very individual matter While he may be introduced to the thc tummy sleeping position no one can make him stay in that or any other one unless he enjoys it Some mother is always saying plaintively that she simply cant can't make the baby sleep any way but upon his back or back or it may be the right side or the left side side baby baby being so stubbornly opposed to it All efforts to force him to sleep in other ways are foiled by his determination determination determination deter deter- to get back into the position position position tion which he personally favors Turn Often In order to prevent the formation of such fixed sleeping positions Itis it itis itis is well from birth to accustom the baby to frequent turnings If put putdown down on his right side in an hour the baby's position should be changed This will not waken him in fact it is contributory to re renewed renewed renewed re- re slumber for the baby unlike the older child cannot readily change his position and healthy sleep takes into account numerous changes of position The child who has become addicted addicted addicted ad ad- to one way of sleeping can perhaps be discouraged somewhat by putting a a. pillow at his back when he is in the desired position to make turning more difficult In Inmost Inmost Inmost most cases this would be quite unnecessary unnecessary unnecessary un un- un- un necessary if he were accustomed to sleeping on his stomach In that position the head needs to be turned from side to side so that the habit I of sleeping on one cheek or the theother theother theother other does not become habitual I I