OUR PARIES.D

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 576, 30 May 1925, Page 2

OUR PARIES.D

AIR THE MUST IMPORTANT. Air stands first and is the most important. A baby may live fur a certain time without, any of the other factors, hut deprive him of air and he will die in three or lour minutes. Tim air he breathes must he fresh. A baby deprived of fresh air becomes pale, lesleilcss, and listless. and catches cold easily. Fresh air and sunlight stimulate Urn, body, and are made use of in health and disease.

Kven oik* nr two people in a dust'd room use up the- pure air in a very short time, and the room becomes filled with the "as they hreatlie out. A mother avili say site believes in fresh air for the baby, and she puts him outside in the daytime, but at night she beeps him in a room full of foul aii - . Let him have fresh air dav and night. Night air i,s not harmful. There is one thing we must be certain of when putting a baby in the open air, and that is beeping him warm by warm clothing, a pruperlymado cot and hot-water bug if necessary. If he is not warm he will derive very little benefit from the fresh air; but if he is properly clad he will thrive best in a pure eool atmosphere'. Of course, he must not bo taken straight from a warm room into the outside air. Gradually get him used to the cooler atmosphere; It is not always,, possible to put baby’s cut outside on account of tlio bad weather, in which ease wo must ensure plenty of fresh air inside. Wo do I his by correct ventilation. Uy ventilation i.s meant a moving. stream of fresh air.

When the surrounding air is fresh and cool,, our breath rises, and v,e inhale pure air; but when the .surrounding air is warm and stuffy on* breath hangs round us, and wo breathe ill again the poisoned air. A mother taking her baby to the picture theatre does not realise that h.< is being poisoned by impurities breathed out by the crowd. If wo remember file following points when ensuring fresh air for the babies we cannot go far wrong: - J. The air around them must be moving. 2. Babies should not be taken straight from a Very warm atmosphere to a cold one without proper protection. d. Sick babies need fresh air us well as healthy ones. d, Keep the babies warm by .suitable clothing and suitable bedel ot lies. Feed your baby properly, give him • pure, cool air to breathe, keep his

body snug, and lie will be contented. 111-feed, starve,- or chill him. and he will fee! wretched, and will let you know it.