Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-07-19 | Page 10 | Baby's Schedule is Established in First Weeks

Baby's Schedule Is Established In First Weeks By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED To get the baby off on the right foot the first six weeks will solve half the training problems of the first year. For It Is during those Important weeks that baby is both introduced and made accustomed to the regular rhythms of daily events which comprise his whole existence. Just at first the baby must be wakened for his regular feedings. But when his digeetive system has become attuned to the reception of I food at these regular Intervals, its own demanda will act aa an alarm to waken the baby for it Sleep Drpenda on Feeding The sleeping periods hinge upon the feeding ones. After each meal, baby la put down to sleep and usually does. If not all of the time between meals, then a large portion of It The only wakeful periods to be expected are those immediately preceding the daily bath and Juat before the final feeding at bedtime. From 1:30 to 10 a. m. and from 4:30 to p. m. the average baby cries a little, strains to move and look about and discovers that he la alive. Up to about 10 days of age the daily bath la Just a spongs bath, after that a warm, tub bath ia a prescribed dally ceremony. When the weather Is very hot a cool, spongs bath at bedtime adds immeasurably im-measurably to the baby's comfort and hta chancea of restful sleep. Daily Airing In summer from the age of two weeks, the baby will probably have an airing on the porch. From one month of age. his carriage will no doubt Join the parade of carriages wheeled by proud mamas ''walking the baby." The other essential of good baby care Is the weekly weighing which takes place at tha same hour and in the same lack of clothes sach week. For the first six weeks.ethen, baby's regular routine consists of five to six feedings daily, one bath, one outdoor airing, several drinks of cool, boiled water and a weekly weighing which sums up all these daily happenings and by its figures puts the sump of success or failure upon them. Our leaflet on "The Baby's First Six Weeks" discusses all of these happenings at length. Send a self-addressed, self-addressed, three-cent stamped envelope en-velope with your request for the leaflet by name to Myrtle Meyer Eldred of the your baby and mine department of The Salt Lake Tele-i gram.