The practical nursing of infants and children / by Frank Cole Madden.

  • Madden, Frank Cole.
Date:
1901
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The practical nursing of infants and children / by Frank Cole Madden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Talking.—By the end of the second year the child has its first ideas of talking. Weight. —The average weight of a newly born infant may be taken as 7 pounds. For the first few days it may lose a little weight, but this it quickly makes up again when it begins to derive proper nourishment from the breast. At twelve months a child should weigh 22 pounds, but after that date it increases in weight more slowly, and it is not until about the sixth year that it weighs 44 pounds. (Ashby and Wright.) Length.—A full-term, healthy baby is about 19 inches long at birth, and should double its length by the end of the fourth year. (Ashby and Wright.)