Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-30

900 D.. m. This $500 D. IN. feeding should be given
quietly and the baby Immediately returned to his bed
or crib. He should also be having two maps a day,
from 900 to Zoo in the morning, from 100 to $500
in the afternoon. If he sleeps too late in the after
noon, he will be wakeful at 900, the hour set for his
going to sleep for the night.
After his first birthday, Baby has only one daily
nap, in early afternoon, but the twelve hour sleep at
night is essential to his health until he has passed
his sixth birthday. 1t is nonsense to say that a young
child does not want to sleep. Nature cries out for
sleep. Parents interfere with nature by starting the
baby off wrong and teaching it not to want sleep.
The best argument is that the baby who is kept up
to romp with Papa in the evening, at the age Of 2,
or 4 years, is a late sleeper in the morning, irritable
and heavy.
The baby should not he rocked to. sleep, nor should
he be tucked into a carriage and then trundled to
sleep. In clear weather, hsf may be Struggled up in
his carriage and set out of doors in a corner screened
from drausht or direct rays of the sun for both his
morning and afternoon maps. At 6 O'Clock, he should
be undressed, made perfectly comfortable, fed and
then laid down on a firm hair mattress without a
pillow, to go to slep without further attention. Do
not form the habit Of singing a baby to sleep or hold
ing his tiny hand till he drops off. There, will come
evenings when you are too tired to sing, or there will
be other work for your busy hands to do-and Baby,
not understanding, will raise his voice in protest.
From birth, the baby should sleep alone, in a dark
room, we'll ventilated. Baby knows no fear and needs
no light. heather does he need the warmth of an
adult body. There have been sad tragedies of babies
smothered by tired mothers, too heavy with sleep to
know they had rolled over on the tiny, helpless form.
There have been other cases where babies permitted
to sleep with adults, afflicted with chronic disease.
have contracted the ailment and died.
Ventilation is important. Occasionally we read Of
unusual cases where parents boast that they have
raised eight, nine, or ten healthy children in unven.
tilated bedrooms. These children have been consti-
tutionally strong enough to survive such doses of
yitiated air. The modern mother does not take the
chance. She sppulies fresh air to her baby from
birth. The little crib should not stand in a draught,
but the window should be dropped from the top and
raised from the bottom to create a current Of fresh
pure air. The crib, with its little sleeper may be
protected by screens.
Above all things, do not start your baby's sleeping
habits with the warning-"Hush = Have the room
in which ne sleeps as free from noise as your house.
hold habits will permit, and do not permit other
members of the family to disturb him unnecessarily,
but when he is asleep on the second floor. do rot
demand that everybody tiptoe and speak in whispers
on the ground floor. ltemembe a healthy BABY. is
not a nervous invalid, whose nerves" lnuss be saved
in every possible way. Take it for granted that he
was sent into the world with sound nerves and a nor
NAL appetite for sleep, as we'll as for food.
The baby's habits of sleep are regulated largely
by his physical comfort, and this in turn is dependent
upon the way in which he is clothed. So the next
talk on Babyology will deal exclusively with clothes
for the baby.