. How I kept my baby well . ^ lookingat me, raising the eyeljrows and nodding the head(juite as adults do. He has done many a little errandfor me aljout the house, and in many ways, of whichI have kept no record, he has shown that long beforehe could use them he understood the words I used. (B) Clothing. Baby came home from the hos-])ital dressed in tlie number and kind of dresses thereadopted: namely, a flannel bandage, a flannel shirt,. Fig. 24. Overalls for the roof. (Age, nineteenmonths.) 170 SUMMARIES 171 diapers, a flannel petticoat and a woven cotton I soon began to question th
. How I kept my baby well . ^ lookingat me, raising the eyeljrows and nodding the head(juite as adults do. He has done many a little errandfor me aljout the house, and in many ways, of whichI have kept no record, he has shown that long beforehe could use them he understood the words I used. (B) Clothing. Baby came home from the hos-])ital dressed in tlie number and kind of dresses thereadopted: namely, a flannel bandage, a flannel shirt,. Fig. 24. Overalls for the roof. (Age, nineteenmonths.) 170 SUMMARIES 171 diapers, a flannel petticoat and a woven cotton I soon began to question the use of the bandageand the flannel garments. They seemed too confin-ing and too irritating, and as they were always get-ting wet, were a source of trouble both to baby andmyself. So I consulted Professor Fisher of Yale, fivedoctors and three maternity hospitals, and read whatI found in seven books that gave advice concerningthe layette. Without going into the details of thisinvestigation, at the close of it I became suspiciousthat the bandage and the use of flannel were butrelics of customs and tradition. At any rate, I feltjustified in giving cotton a trial and in removing thebandage. So, while keeping a most careful watchupon the babys condition, I discarded, one by one,the bandage, the shirt, the skirt, and even the cottonmuslin dress. All these were replaced by a singlegarment that I had found in the course of my inves-tigati
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