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Identifier: maternitychildca00gall (find matches)
Title: Maternity and child care
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Galland, William Herbert, 1877- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Pregnancy Infants Child care
Publisher: Chicago, F. J. Drake & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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rst mental powers the baby exhibits. Cry-ing from hunger or discomfort in the young in-fant is more or less mechanical and the babyis probably not conscious of any suffering. Con-scious smiling or laughing are not evidenceduntil the second or third month. The baby doesnot laugh with knowing pleasure much beforethe sixth month. In the third month, he recog-nizes his mother and seems to understand whenpreparations for nursing are being made. Inthe third or fourth month, the baby reaches forobjects and tries to get them in his mouth. Heseems to manifest an interest in light and mo-tion, turning toward bright and moving objects.At six months, the baby knows other familiarpersons besides its mother, and recognizes placesthat it is accustomed to be in. When baby isnine months old, he begins to understand manysimple things and will respond to suggestions byplaying boo or bo-peep. By the first year,he has developed the idea of choice and showslikes and dislikes. During the second year, the 0)
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