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Show was fun. "Oh, well, these folks aren't used to babies but they mean well," he seemed to be thinking, think-ing, then he will give you an enchanting en-chanting smile, like an "A" for effort. But now ' to more practical aspects of taking a baby visiting. A lot of learning will be an inevitable inevit-able part of this new experience, so try not to make any radical changes in his personal life. For example, it was about time when Johnny left home for him to change from his formula to cow's milk, but this doctor suggested that his mother wait until after they were back home again to introduce any diet changes. The amount of his food was kept the same, too. That is, Johnny had been for some time on a self demand four hour schedule. This was ' maintained, though the actual time of feedings varied considerably from day to day. He didn't have food offered as a pacifier, as used to happen when several adults were looking after a baby. Naps, too, were undisturbed, undis-turbed, no matter who might call, though Johnny obligingly took several short sleeps during the long ones as had been his custom at home. In other words, there was give and take Johnny adapted adap-ted himself to strange surroundings surround-ings and the adults adapted themselves them-selves to a baby's basic needs. SUCCESSFUL PARENTHOOD WHEN A BABY IS BORN far from his grandparents' home, often one of the big events of his first year is the trip to visit relatives. Consider that a new husband hus-band usually quails at this introduction intro-duction to the family of which he has become a part, one might think a baby would be overcome by it. Well, some babies don't take it too well, but others seem to thrive on meeting a lot of strange and admiring adults. But whether or not the visit is a delight for all or a trial to the baby and his parents depends as much on the months that have preceded this first away-from-home adventure as on the actual circumstances the baby encounters. encoun-ters. Recently we saw for the first time a little fellow of eight months who seomed to make each person he met feel specially liked. "I'm glad you are my relatives," Johnny's smile seemed to say and then he would go off into the gayest gay-est chatter about the delights of his baby world which he wanted you to share. In a Succession of calls from relatives, rela-tives, neighbors and friends he greeted at least 25 different diff-erent persons in this joyous joy-ous fashion. He took it for granted that everyone meant well by him and was frightened fright-ened only once. What was back of this assurance? assur-ance? Perfect health and intelligent intelli-gent care had been his good fortune, for-tune, and a whole lifetime, even though it was only two thirds of a year in length, of being loved by his parents and of feeling enormously enor-mously important to them. There wasn't an ounce of apprehensive-ness apprehensive-ness in Johnny's mind, so far at least. This expectancy of good showed particularly in the way he accepted discomfort as being just part of , the adventure. A borrowed little cart proved much too large so that his body was jostled fantastically fan-tastically but Johnny thought it |