Infant care / [United States Children's Bureau].

  • United States. Children's Bureau.
Date:
1935
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Credit: Infant care / [United States Children's Bureau]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FIFTH AND SIXTH MONTHS 6.00 a. m____ Breast feeding. Leave alone in crib to sleep or play. 9.15 a.m__-__. Plain cod-liver oil, then orange juice or tomato juice. Bath. Before bath let baby kick and play freely on bed a few minutes without clothes. 10.00 a. m____ Cooked cereal, then breast feeding. 10.20 a. m__--- Out of doors till feeding time. Sun bath and long nap in sun if weather permits. Drink of water after nap. 2.00 p. m___._ Egg yolk, vegetables mashed through a strainer (from sixth month on), breast feeding. 2.20 p. M_---. Out of doors as long as weather permits, in sun except on ver hot days. Short nap. Drink of water after nap. Play. 5.15 p. m__.._ Undress for night; before putting on baby’s night clothes let him kick and play on bed a few minutes. Play must not be exciting nor rough. Plain cod-liver oil, then orange juice or tomato juice. 6. 00 p. m___. Cooked cereal, then breast feeding. 6.20 p. It. ——. Bed; lights out, windows open, door shut. 10.00 p. m___. Breast feeding. Parents must work together to teach the baby good habits Feeding.—Feed the baby regularly by the clock. Give new foods in small amounts at first, and the baby will learn to take more of them. He may refuse a new food or spit it out because he has not yet learned how to swallow solids. Keep on giving him the new food from day to day, and he will learn to take it. (See p. 82.) Begin to teach the baby to help hold the bottle while drinking water. Sleep.—See that the baby’s waking hours are in the daytime—in the late afternoon—so that he will not be wakeful at night. Toilet habits.—Continue training for regular bowel movement. Exercise and play—Put into the baby’s crib simple washable toys that will not break, such as a rattle and a wooden doll. Tie them to the crib with short pieces of tape. Give exercise morning and evening. (See card for first four months.) Sun baths.—Keep on giving sun baths. Let the baby sleep in the sun all morning if the weather permits. On the hottest days do not put him in the sun between 11 a. m. and 3 p. m.