TRAINING A CHILD TO SLEEP.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 147, 23 June 1928, Page 4 (Supplement)

TRAINING A CHILD TO SLEEP.

The first months of a child's life are spent mostly in sleeping. A baby should be encouraged to sleep as much as possible. Bad habits formed during the first months of a child's life often lead to complications in later life. The child should, therefore, be trained from the first to awake at definite periods of tht> day, in order to take food, and to sleei steadily through the night without food With patience the habit will becomr established. Five short and* one lonp sleep is generally recommended for young babies. Difficulty arises usually with regard to the long night one. Thr room in which the child sleeps should be quiet and dark, with open windows to admit plenty of fresh air. After a time the child will not sleep throughout the short intervals, but will spend some part of the daytime awake in a quiet condition. The child should not be dis Curbed, but left alone in his cot. If h r is not picked up as soon as he awake~ he will not expect it, and he will li*here ouite hanoily until he is hungrr Whenever possible, let babv sleeo durin" ♦he day in> the fresh air. The pram cn* be placed ip a porch, verandah, or sum Tier house if +hp wontKpt- q showery.