Taking Care of the Developing Infant
The chief requirement of a developing infant is its getting enough to sleep, play and exercise.
The chief requirement of a developing infant is its getting enough to sleep, play and exercise.
Your new-born baby comes to an alien atmosphere for which it is not accustomed since so far it has been in your womb.
If a child is ill it is easily detectable. Normally a child is very gay and lively. No healthy child has ever been found to be lying listlessly or sitting around inertly.
Providing means to an individual to develop body resistance to fight successfully against various diseases and infection is called immunisation.
A handicapped child needs more attention and care. There are various types of handicaps.
In the infancy itself, say from about three months or so the child begins to ‘feel’ its environment, rather unknowingly.
Family Planning and birth control are the most crying needs of our time, at least in India.
During the pregnancy, the lady undergoes many mental and physical changes which have been discussed in details in the previous pages. As hinted earlier, most of these changes vanish and the lady’s body becomes almost normal.
For centuries together some wrong notions have been perpetuated by quacks to exploit the gullible for their selfish gains. Some of them are listed below with the right answers supported by the latest researches in the field of medical sciences.
The following suggestions or guidelines should be copied down by the expectant mother to be pasted on its bed-rest or any nearly convenient place.