But it requires mastering your child’s general
habits to ensure a balanced development. From the mother’s diet, to the care of
her breast, and the methods of weaning all significantly enhances the ability
of the mother to effectively nurse her child, which leads to true bonding
between mother and child.
One wrong habit that is indulged by mothers is that
of walking the floor with baby every time
he or she cries. This is wrong! And like all bad habits, it is difficult to
break away from.
Every healthy baby should cry for half an hour each
day. Nature demands this as an essential exercise. Muscular movements involving
a greater part of the whole body accompany the act of crying.
It is significant to note again that, when baby
wants something, or is uncomfortable, he or she employs the language nature
gave to him - he cries.
No child ever
cried to be walked up and down the floor in the dead of the night.
Firstly find out why he is crying. Go to the
foundation, the first few days when your baby first cried. What did you
noticed? Offer him a little water if it is not feeding time.
Examine his diaper and if soiled change it. The baby may be overdressed and consequently
hot, perspiring, and uncomfortable. Change his position.
Find out if any pin is open and hurting him. Loosen
the binder so he can breathe easily. If he is a colicky child, follow the
instructions given in the treatment of colic.
Be patient the first few nights, and be thorough,
because you may discover why your baby cries and each discovery will help you
next time.
If you discover something wrong, some reasonable
excuse for the crying, does it not prove the folly of walking the floor? If the
infant wants a drink of water, or if his diaper is wet, how is walking the
floor going to cure it, or how can you expect the baby to stop crying when you
so unjustly interpret his only reasonable way of asking a favor?
If walking the floor stops the infant from crying,
it stops him by exhausting the child, not by relieving him of his little
ailment.
Hobbling,
Rocking Or Shaking The Baby
This is another habit that should be frowned upon.
So many persons are addicted to this form of baby torture. More immediate harm
can result from it.
Be particularly careful not to indulge in it or
permit anyone else to do it immediately after feeding. If you form the habit of
putting baby down at once after each feeding, as you have been instructed to
do, the opportunity to jolt him will not exist.
A little reasoning will clearly convince you that to
subject a baby to violent exercise when its stomach is full would interrupt
digestion and so shake the full stomach. This will cause the stomach to swell
up and cause indigestion.
You would not think of exercising yourself after a
meal; why exercise a baby?
Once again, it is important to note once more that,
when baby wants something, or is itchy, he has just one language bestowed by nature
- he cries.
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