The Mercury from Pottstown, Pennsylvania • Page 13

Tuesday, Apri! 28, 1970 The Pottstown Diapers, Tempers Of er Lesson (Continued From Page Twelve) different in each family, 'depending on the background and experience of each. HUSBAND'S TIME The responsibility that usually takes most of your husband's time and energy is providing for the material needs of the family. Perhaps equally important to you is that emotional lift you get as he, in his way, encourages you in handling your problems. Raising a family means helping your children grow to be healthy, effective adults. You do this by helping them to develop self-respect, as well as to develop interests, skills and standards to guide them in their relationships with others.

Parenthood is a deeply emotional and personal experience, rather than a science or a matter of mere physical care. As with any emotional experience, it has both satisfactions and frustrations. The experiences of others and even previous experience with some child other than vour own may be helpful. But, as you know, having your own is really different. Your own family will not duplicate either of these.

If you find you cannot settle your differences, it is a good idea to seek advice together, and your doctor can be helpful here. His will be in your welfare. With his help, you may discover you have different ideas that you cannot agree on. but will learn to live with. As you gain more understanding of some of these emotions that make parenthood both trying and rewarding, you will gain increasing satisfactions from your family life.

Wh, you recognize and understand the signs of his emotional and physical growth, you will feel yourself grow with your enjoy it. BABY RESPONDS As you learn to recognize your uniqueness, and to care for his developing needs, he responds to your a i tent ion. You begin to anticipate his he learns which learns the meaning of your responses please you to begin to seek In this way affectionate As he has increasing ne.d for your ap- relations between your baby ami becomes your and you begin to grow, and chief instrument for influencing from this exchange the behavior. THE ART-STUDIO BABY WEEK IS KID STUFF This pair of sisters is to run on a brick sidewalk. In a few more years a bit too old to participate in Baby Week.

But be roller skating and riding bicycles. The girls are not sorry to be old enough to run outdoors when the daughters of Mrs. Juanita Sutton, 125 N. War- spring comes and enjoy the balmy air. Nancy Sutton, ren St.

(Mercury Staff Photo) 2, holds tight as her sister Angela, 3, shows her how BABY CHILDREN PRINTS GOLD TRIM FRAMES BIRTHDAY CANDLES CHILDREN LAMPS CUSTOM FRAMING ROUTE NEXT TO IVB 326-8112 1 COMES FIRST DR. POSNER shoes PRE-WALKER, FIRST STEPPER, WALKER Yomi- Doctor I'rcscriftliotis I Hint OUR TRAINED STAFF ASSURES A PERFECT FIT consult its tion. icitli vtmjitlvnce FREE GIFT WRAPPING THE STORI OF FURIOUS 25i high si POT TSTOWN Babies Love Water, Bathing Is Simple After his first natural fear of the water, every baby takes to his bath. There are no tricks to bathing a small baby. You simply sponge-toaihe him for the first few days and especially while the cord is still unhealed.

After that, you can give him his bath in the tub of his bath table, or in a small tub. love to be bathed wherever done. A few sponge toys should be i constant companions whenever his ablutions take place. Some things frighten small babies in the bath such as letting his face get wet, or holding him so casually that he gets a feeling of falling. Never leave baby alone in his bath.

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START AIRINGS Many mothers worry about when to start the airings, especially in the winter time. A healthy baby who has reached a normal weight can be taken outdoors two or three hours each day when the weather is fine. If it is freezing cold, windy or rainy, he will benefit as much from an airing in a room near an open window In the summertime, sun baths should be given gradually. It is best to start with a minute or two a day, front and back; gradually building up to no more than fifteen minutes a day. When he is old enough to go to the beach, protect his head from the sun, and be sure he is not allowed to play in the water too long without a protective shirt.

A special doctor for the baby is a unless you are fortunate in having the type of family-doctor-relationship which provides you with reliable, medical care for your child. you have a pediatrician or general practitioner. your health should be safeguarded from the moment he is born. Be sure he has all of the necessary innoculations on schedule. You should be able to call his doctor whenever you need him or when you are worried about any phase of your health.

fontanel or be a problem, san wash his head thoroughly because the fontanel is covered by a protective membrane that prevents injury. The You eats WALKERi J( MPER TOWN TOY High St. 326-1950, An rather mottled skin soon changes to an even color. His eyes may seem slightly crossed at first but this usually passes quickly If your baby has been circumcized. there should be no after-effects.

But if a spot of blood should appear, keep folded gauze wrapped around the area. If the bleeding continues, check with your doctor. Although our nutritionist discusses feeding elsewhere in this issue, it is such an important phase of your life with your growing baby, too much cannot be said about it. Since convenience is the keynote of methods of feeding baby today, young parents will find feeding routines simpler than their own parents did. Breast feeding, of course, has always been a convenient as well as a healthy way to feed a baby.

And today, bottle feeding has been made easier by advent of special disposable nurser.s and ready-to- feed formula, often in its own nurser. New Mothers Need Little Recuperation Now that early ambulation (getting out of a hospital bed almost immediately is the rule)! going home from the hospital when the baby is five days old can be fun. Before World War II, the physician kept his new mother in bed for 10 days and four days after she was up, sent her home. In other words, she spent 14 days in the hospital. Apparently doctors at that time thought they were fragile and would fall apart! And when she did get out of bed, her leg muscles were flabby from disuse and she felt weak and hardly able to take care of a demanding new baby.

No one questioned the necessity of long bed rest until some London hospitals were bombed. As a result of the bombings, the crib was kept at the foot of the mother's bed, and when an air raid alarm sounded, she snatched up her baby and fled to an air raid shelter. Some observant physician noted that these mothers did well, even better than those who remained in bed for a full 10 days. This started early ambulation in Britain and the excellent maternal results were re- norted in a British medical journal. Successful results established the practice in the United States.

But the question is: are new mothers sufficiently prepared, when they leave the hospital in so short a time, to take care of their new babies at home. The answer is although help for the first few days is. always welcome). Charge it to mother instinct, if you to the fact that the nurses in the hospital or new prenatal courses prepare them for the job. DRESSING TABLE DOES HALF THE WORK IF QUALITY YOU til LOOKING FOR Sale 22 Willowease wicker in white only, our five drciwei table is very special.

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