OUR BABIES.
By
HUGERA.
Published under the auspices o< ths Royal New Zealand Society for the Health ci Women and Children. ••It is wiser to put up a fence at tho top of a precipice than to maintain an ambulance at the bottom.”
TIIUMB-SUCKING. Tho following letter was received recently from an anxious mother: —- MOTHER’S T.ET’I ER. T wish 1 could do something to make my little girl keep her mouth shut when asleep. :-Uie is six and a-lmlt years old, and has always sucked her thumb when in bed. 1 have nearly broken her of sucking her thumb, but her jaw siavs in the position it is loft in when her thumb drops out the lower p ar is dropped, and the tip of the tongue just out tx tween the lips. I had her operated on for adenoids, of which Eure was very little. I am afraid it. will make the lower par! of h- > face an ugly o.Aj:o, and it must be bad for her breath-
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Otago Witness, Issue 3518, 16 August 1921, Page 51
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169OUR BABIES. Otago Witness, Issue 3518, 16 August 1921, Page 51
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