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Infants are easily influenced by temperature, therefore a proper clothing is important for their health. Unfortunately, an opinion is prevalent in society, that the tender child has naturally a great power of generating heat and resisting cold; and from this popular error has raised the most fatal results. The power of generating heat in warm-blooded mammals is at its minimum at birth, and increases successively to adult age; young animals, instead of being warmer than adults, are generally a degree or two colder, and part with their heat more readily; facts which cannot be too generally known. It is absolutely unwise to take your baby out in all seasons wearing light clothing.

 

Parent should follow these principles before they put clothes on their infants:

 

The material and quantity of the clothes should be such as to preserve a sufficient proportion of warmth to the body, regulated therefore by the season of the year, and the delicacy or strength of the infant’s constitution. Parent should understand not to put to many layers of clothing on their infants which may cause infatns suffer from overheat and parents must also aware of the cold weather where they should put more clothing on their infants.

 

The fabric should be smooth enough to avoid restriction of the child’s movement; and so loose and easy as to permit the insensible perspiration to have a free exit, instead of being confined to and absorbed by the clothes, and held in contact with the skin, till it gives rise to irritation.

 

In infancy, therefore, flannel is a bit too rough, but is desirable as the child grows older, as it gives a gentle stimulus to the skin, and keeps the body warm.

 

The design of the clothes should be so simple as to admit of being quickly put on, since dressing is not always a pleasant experience to the infant, causing it to cry, and exciting as much mental irritation as it is capable of feeling. The children’s clothing must be changed daily.

 

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