Health in the nursery / by Henry Ashby.

  • Henry Ashby
Date:
1905
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Credit: Health in the nursery / by Henry Ashby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    established authority and in the display of a decided shortness and sharpness of temper. The first evidence of temper shows itself, perhaps in connection with the milk supply. The infant wakes too soon, before feeding time has come, or the bottle is not warmed up quickly enough, or its contents have disappeared without satisfying the appetite, and forthwith the storm bursts. Or it may be the infant declines to be put into his cot in order to go off to sleep, but wants to be taken in the nurse’s arms to be walked about, and cries and roars tempestuously until she takes it up. The * comfort ’—precious thing—is on the floor, or among the bed-clothes, and there is no peace until it is found and once more in the mouth. A little later, when the baby has tasted the joy of handling toys, it is jealous over its posses¬ sions, and expresses itself in strong and forcible language if any one is daring enough to dispute its rights. While it cannot be expected that these trials will be borne with equanimity, there cannot be a doubt that with many babies there is a great deal of un¬ necessary crying about small matters, which a little resolution and tact on the part of the nurse would pi event. Nurse wants to set the nursery tidy or busy herself in various ways ; the baby will not sleep and does not want to be left to amuse itself; it expects to be taken up and walked about, and because it does not get its way there is an uproar. It throws itself back, stiffens its limbs, and cries loud and long. The nurse, or perhaps the mother, cannot endure its cries, and thinking that it will do itself some mortal injury, lets it have its own way, and it learns the lesson
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