Care of infants and young children / [A. Dingwall Fordyce].

  • Fordyce, Alexander Dingwall
Date:
1911
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Credit: Care of infants and young children / [A. Dingwall Fordyce]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A healthy baby may sleep in almost any attitude, but the favourite one is that where he lies semi-prone on his face with his arms and legs bent up. He usually sleeps with his eyes shut, but it is not necessarily a sign of illness if a baby sleeps with his eyes half-open. If, however, a baby, who naturally sleeps with his eyes shut, sleeps with them half-open, it is often a symptom accompanying disorder of some sort. If he sleeps with his mouth wide open, he has some obstruction to the easy passage of air from the nostrils to the lungs. Fig. 1. In this diagram (after Stratz) the figures at different ages have been drawn to a corresponding scale. Note the large size of the baby’s head, the shortness of the legs and arms, and the comparatively large size of the abdomen.