YC200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Infant Mortality, Doctor Of The Church, Cradleboard
15 Oct 2016
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Reasons for swaddling comfort- once infant leaves womb, is suddenly in cold wrapping makes baby feel warm/ comfortable: warmth - especially in cold climates helps transportation. Stands for to bind with long strips of cloth. How to swaddle a baby: wrap them like a mini burrito ethical, political and cultural issues related to swaddling. *debates on whether to swaddle or not to* What alternatives have been used instead of swaddling. Problem with methodology they took pictures of children being swaddled- ad 265-420 jin dynasty. Galen greek doctor who lived in rome his advice; toughen the baby up skin has to be toughened up inside mothers womb- baby is very soft. Once out of womb baby has to be toughened as nothing from harder nature has touched it until born should be prepared by us for exposure newborn to be salted. : they were against child being born w/ out any physical deformity.
