he baby is deaf. Such lullabies are good when baby is sick and
nervous, and then the mother is allowed and expected to hold and quiet
baby. Sleep perhaps as much or more than any other item of nursery regime,
depends on habit and mild but decided purpose. A lack of firmness in the
early months of the baby's life may not only render its early years a
burden to itself, but an annoyance, if not a nuisance to the entire
household. Baby's habits are quickly and easily formed, but hard to
correct. Dr. Tooker says: "An infant is as plastic as moist clay, you can
mold it to your will. But you must have a will and a purpose and a plan,
and make your judgment and your duty law."

But suppose baby will not sleep, but continues cross and wakeful and
peevish; can I not give medicines to produce sleep? Never. If baby is
wakeful and refuses to sleep, there is something wrong with your training,
his clothing, covering, or his food, or he may be sick, he may not get
enough food, etc., or he may have worms. If everything is all right and
you have trained your baby right from his birth, he will sleep. Find out
the cause and remove it. All soothing syrups, cordials, and quieting
medicines contain opium in some form, and all experienced physicians
realize the danger of giving these mixtures to babies. Babies have been
killed by medicines which were declared to contain neither opium nor
anything else injurious. They are often used. Remember that opium,
laudanum and paregoric are dangerous for babies and old people. Careful
proper training, allowing plenty of sleeping time, no waking at wrong
hours, warm feet, legs and body, cool head, proper modified food, and
especially mother nursing, with mother careful with herself, will give a
good baby in nine out of ten cases.

Will children ever sleep too much? Not if they are healthy; you must
remember a newly-born baby sleeps nine-tenths of the time; excessive
sleeping may indicate disease of the brain.

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EXERCISE.

Is exercise necessary for infants? Yes.

How can it be obtained? A young baby usually gets its exercise by
screaming, waving its arms, kicking, etc. It is a good plan to let baby
lie in the center of a large bed, and with his long skirts drawn up, allow
him to kick his little legs about for twenty or twenty-five minutes twice
each day or one-half hour once a day. His clothing ought to be loose for
this exercise. If the room is all right you can remove all c