Baby's Comfort.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10903, 21 October 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

Baby's Comfort.

In an interesting letter on the subject of the treatment of home-babies in The Review, the writer considers there is a great deal more discomfort and distress among the children of the upper classes than there should be. Amongst other instances of neglect on the part of the average, nurse, she says:—"Babies are too often allowed to be. in the sun, strapped too tight in tlieir prams., and expected to keep too still and too tidy. The irritation of this in ;hot, dusty weather can only be imagined by nervous grown-ups with sensitive eyes and skins. The children would be much better off if they were allowed to be in less smart costumes and to kick about more freely. . "Some nurses are ■ too fond of visiting the shops. ' They, perambulate the children through the crowd.: before the windows or in the roads, the child's head being half-way between the dust of the. pavement and the. heads, and hats above it. They are notVinfrequently left—well strapped," of course—at the doors, while shopping is done." I remonstrated -recently, with 'a uniformed nurse on 'thus leaving her baby, and received the cheering, reply " that the 'baby, ought not to mind, because she was used to it!'"' " -