| Show Your Baby and Mine By l MEYER 9 DADY BAny SHOULDN'T UA HAVE VE COLDI COLD FEET l I Applaud the young mother who asks honestly Why should I do this adore carrying out some of the sens sense ess advice that comes her way 1 I am appalled at the information upon young oung mothers and en- en them to out nit f fr n. n elves from rom authoritative tive sources this information is JS v The following question I iz n ii excellent one which I 1 am glad to at length TIlE THE ARGUMENT Since you are arc an authority on baby are arc compliments Mrs T. T V. V I 1 am writing to ask you where the idea that if a baby does not wear weara a 1 band and stockings s he will suffer a stomach ache This came up the theother ther other day when my old month baby was sick at his stomach I 1 w was told by a friend that my baby would vold not have had the stomach disorder if r he had had td on a band and stockings If it is warm in baby's room or in tiny any other part of oC the house 1 I do not keep stockings on him and i if I feel it is warm enough h I 1 take off his shirt This friend also told me that while baby was teething he should wear som-e som some kind o of band If the tempera lure in the room is watched what whal on onearth onearth onearth earth do bands and stockings have tc Ic do with internal disturbances Please In answering this do not get the idea ide that I disrobe the baby th the temperature in the room Toom permits it ill Unless the temperature were verc at nt least 75 or more degrees it would be beat beat beat at least uncomfortable for a baby to togo togo togo go without stockings I think if it you'll just imagine yourself without stockings stockings stockings stock stock- ings or shoes in your house as it is ordinarily you'll be able to judge whether or not this is uncomfortable As for bands there is a vast difference difference dif dif dif- ference of opinion about aboul them Not so 50 long ago they were almost imPerative imperative imperative im im- im- im in the wardrobe of oC the well dressed child My own three children wore the knitted wool part-wool bands until until un un- un- un til hi two years of age I assure you youit it didn't hurt them in the least Also I 1 have seen a number of healthy babies who wore only the shirt without without with with- out the band arid and suffered not at all It seems to be accepted by nil all authorities authorities au au- that some ome protection over the ab abdomen omen is essential to the child chih Because of his small size the chilis child chil is more easily chilled than the adu adult and chilling docs does have an nn effect o othe on the childs child's digestive processes Heris Here Her is what hat I culled for your jour benefit from I some authoritative books b by ped Foot covering is during all seasons because his th the baby's extremities arc especially likely to be cooler than the rest o ohis of his body It Il is this difference in m bod body that makes babies par par- susceptible to colds Th Thoung The oung Olang baby should always wear stock stock- I Story Story of Infancy by Dr I. I I Newton Kugelmass I Bands should be continued as Ion Ionas long lone longas as it il is possible to buy them large larg enough the reason for this being that tha it is important to protect the bowels from rom sudden changes of oC temperature or chilling even in older children children children- The Infant and Young Child b by Morse Wyman and Hill I am sure that thai this idea originated among laymen through the influence of Dr Holt Hall whose C Care lre and Feeding Feed Feed- Ing of oC Infants was the first popular standard work on child care of which I have ha any knowledge Most of ou our ideas about baby care were impressed upon lIpon us by that thit book |
