irty hours. As a rule there are usually
between ten and twenty wet diapers during each twenty-four hours. The
following table shows about the amounts of urine at different ages:

Birth to two years 8 to 12 ounces
Two to five years 15 to 25 ounces
Five to ten years 25 to 35 ounces

GENITALS OF THE MALE CHILD

The foreskin of the male child is often long, tight, and adherent, and
is often the direct cause of irritability, nervousness, crying, and
too frequent urination. It should be closely examined by both
physician and nurse and when the foreskin does not readily slip back
over the acorn-like head of the organ, circumcision is advised early
in the second week. This simple operation will start the child out on
his career with at least one moral handicap removed and one desirable
possibility established--that of being able to keep himself clean.

POST-OPERATIVE CARE OF CIRCUMCISION

The dressings that are loosely applied at the time of the operation
should remain untouched (especially those next to the skin), unless
otherwise directed by the physician, until the seventh or eighth day
when the babe is placed in a warm soap bath, at which time the
dressings all come off together. Clean sterile gauze is so placed as
entirely to protect the inflamed skin from the diaper at all times
before this bath, and these same dressings should be continued for at
least another week. Sterile vaseline (from a tube) should be applied
twice a day after the original dressings are removed in the bath at
the end of the first week. There should be little or no bleeding
following the operation, neither should the penis swell markedly; if
either complication should occur, the physician should be promptly
notified.

CARE OF THE FEMALE GENITALS

The girl baby is often neglected in respect to the proper care of the
genitals. The lips of the vulva should be separated and thorough but
careful cleaning should be the daily routine. The foreskin or covering
of the clitoris should not be adherent; while the presence of mucus,
pus, or blood in the vulva should be at once reported to the
physician; in his absence, the application of twenty per cent argyrol
should be made daily.

[Illustration: Fig. 6. How to Hold the Baby]

HANDLING THE BABY

Let us thoroughly come to understand the very first day the little
one's life, that it was not sent to us because the family needed
something to play with; it is not a ball to toss u