Sections selected by

Dr. Namphol Kenlao,

Phanom Sarakham

The Parents Part

• 1. You know more than you think you do.
• 2. They have needs.
• 3. Some children are a lot more difficult than others.
• 4. At best, there's lots of hard work and deprivation.
• 5. Needless self-sacrifice sours everybody.
• 6. Parents should expect someching from their children.
• 7. Parents are bound to be cross.
• 8. Better to admit crossness.
• 9. Children like to be kept good.
• 10. Mixed feelinge about pregnancy.
• 11. Feelings are different in every pregnancy.
• 12. Love for the baby comes gradually.

• 222. Starting sips of milk from the cup at three months.
• 223. Orange juice doesn't count toward weaning.
• 224. Helping a baby to like the cup.
• 225. Some are ready for weaning early, others not.

• 226. Take it easy and follow his lead.
• 227. The reluctant weaner.
• 228. Sometimes it's the mother who delays weaning.

• 261. Diapering

• 265. What does it mean?
• 266. Hunger?
• 267. Is he sick?.
• 268.. Is he crying, because he is wet or has he had a bowel movement?
• 269. Is it a safety pin?
• 270. Is it indigestion?
• 271. Is he spoiled?
• 272. Fatigue
• 273. Fretful babies.
• 274. A hypertonic baby.
• 275. Three-month colic and "periodic irritable crying".
• 276. The treatment of colic.
• 277. It's hard on the parents of a fretful, hypertonic, colicky, or irritable baby.

• 278. Can you spoil a baby?
• 279. You can be a Iittle more suspicious by three months,
• 280. A parent who's too eager to amuse.
• 281. Parente who submit too easily.
• 282. Some causes of spoiling.
• 283. How do you unspoil?
• 284. Chronic resistance to sleep in infancy - Going-to.bed type.
• 285. Waking.in-the-night type.
• 286. The spoiIed baby who vomits. .
• 287. Hiccups.
• 288. Spitting and vomiting are common.
• 289. Projectile vomiting in pyloric stenosis.
• 290. Mild indigestion and gas.

• 291. What's constipation and what isn't?
• 292. Hard movements with the bottle-fed baby.
• 293. Chronic constipation.
• 294. Painfully hard movements.
• 295. Psychological constipation.
• 296. Temporary constipation.
• 297. Spastic constipation.

• 298. Diarrhea in babies.
• 299. Emergency treatment of mild diarrhea.
• 300. Emergeny treatment of severe diarrhea.
• 301. Blueish mottling.
• 302. Diaper rash.
• 303. Mild face rashes.
• 304. Prickly heat.
• 305. Cradle cap.
• 306. Thrush.
• 307. Discharge and tearing of the eye.
• 308. Crossed eyes.

• 309. When the baby has swollen breasts.

• 310. Sneezing.
• 311. Faint breathing.
• 312. Chronic noisy breathing.
• 313. Breath-holding spells.
• 314. The thymus gland.
• 315. Babies who startle easily.
• 316. The trembles.
• 317. Twitching.
• 318. Head-rolling, head-banging, jouncing.
• 319. Thumb-sucking.
• 320. The time to pay attention to thumb-sucking.
• 321. Thumb-sucking in breast-fed babies.
• 322. Thumb-sucking in the bottle baby.
• 323. With a thumb-sucker, it's better to go slow.
• 324. The effect on the teeth.
• 325. Why not use restraints?
• 326. Thumb-sucking in the older baby and child.
• 327. Stroking movements and comforters with thumb-sucking.
• 328. Ruminating.

• 329. A pacifier is helpful for colic and to prevent thumbsucking.
• 330. How to use a pacifier.
• 331. Giving up the pacifier.
• 332. Precautions with the pacifier.