Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-01-06 | Page 10 | Baby

BABY Sleeping Bag Will Keep Child Warm By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED ' I shall be happy to send you my free leaflet, "Suggested Pattern for a Home-made Sleeping Bag." Send your request with a 3-cent tamped, self-addressed envelope to Mrs. Eldred of the Your Baby and Mine department In care of The Salt Lake Telegram. The question of keeping the baby properly covered at night is a perennial one. Babies do get warm and throw off covers and then lie there, having no judg- ment about pulling the covers over themselvea again. It keeps a mother on the alert at night hopping up to see if the baby Is uncovered, so that she ge-ts very little rest herself. The sleeping bag, used when the baby Is too young to protest pro-test about It, Is the foremost answer to this problem. My fa-vorlte fa-vorlte Is a real bag, not just a front Into which the baby can be placed. The bag should be long enough and wide enough so that arms and legs can be fully stretched out. It may be made of a heavy cotton material like cotton-flannel (which makes it easy to wash) or It may be cut from old, toft, thin blankets. There may be a large square of nonabsorbent material sewed Inside In-side the lower back half of the bag you know why and this may make It unnecessary to wash the whole bag every day, but Just the material Inside. A good airing will then make It good for two or three nights. Provided, of course, the bag Itself does n. get wet. The neck should fit like a nightgown neck and be zipped or buttoned down the front and across the bottom for ease In changing the baby.