Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-05-01 | Page 6 | Your Baby's Health

J V f y Your Baby Baby's s Health HaIth 1 I th By Bv DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the Iho American Medical Ano Association lallon and anci of o Hygeia tho the H Health Magazine n There Is no direct contact between between between be be- tween a mother and her unborn baby by way lay either cither of ot the nerves erves or the blood The nerves d do not connect conned the tho mother to the baby Even the nourishment the baby receives from ts mother Is Is not derived directly Thou Thousands ands of babi babies with birthmarks birthmarks birthmarks birth birth- I marks or or defects ha have e been born to mothers whose whoso mentality has n not t shown the sligh slightest lest sign or of any disturbance ance No moro more babies with birthmarks are born to mothers who have suffered mental mental mental men men- tal upsets than to mothers who 1 have not sustained such luch setbacks Another common superstition is is that thata a baby born durin during the tho s say say- v- v month can live while whilo ono one delivered in inthe the eighth month can not riot On the contrary tho the longer the tho prenatal period tho the greater are arc th the baby's chances of ot living Jiving Many strange are associated associated asso asso- elated with determining whether the tho baby will be bo a a. boy or a. a girl One holds that the girls girl's heart heartbeats heartbeats heartbeats beats more rapidly than 1 a minute and that the boys boy's heartbeat heartbeat heartbeat heart heart- beat is is' slower It is true that large babies babies' usually mu- mu ally have havo slower Blower rates than thim small ones and boys generally aro are slightly slight slight- ly larger than girls but there is Js not enough difference to make mako It possible to determine which willbo will willbe willbo bo be boys and which h will bo be girls The proportion of births of boys to girls runs about to Another superstition has it that tho the sex o of tho the baby de depends on whether it comes from the glands on the tho right side of orthe the mother or from those on her I left bit ft side This also has been it shown to be without basis Some persons think that the sex of the baby ca en indicated by bythe bythe bythe the shape shapo of ot tho the mother There is no basis for this belief Nor is there any basis for the Idea that the baby will bo be born with ith a loop of or the cord around its neck If It tho the mother frequently raises her arms above her head nead Babies often are ara born with ono one or or more loops of or cord around the neck but there thero is no common explanation for this phenomenon Very rarely indeed does the cx occurrence of ofa a loop of the cord around the tho ne neck k produce an any trou trou- ble Experienced doctors know when to look for or this and how to take tale care of the condition Finally some lome some people think that thatA A baby alwa always s 's will be lucky or orwill orwill orwill will have second sight if it is born with a ca caul l or veil Anybody who believes belleve in in second sig sight t. t will believe bellee be be- lieve lle anything