Pediatrics

Attitudes toward Infant CareThe care of infants is largely influenced by physiologic and psychiatric knowledge, much of which has accumulated in the past few years. Fundamental in this care are the notion that healthy newborn infants are physiologically equipped for survival in the environment into which they are born and, secondly, the certainty that, for the building up of a healthy new personality, a firm and comfortable relation between the infant and its mother is essential.A suitable environment presupposes a mother or mother's substitute whose main concern is the welfare of the baby. She should be one person . . .