As babies lie still most of the time the first six weeks, they need no dressing.

I think the nurse was a full hour bathing and dressing my firstborn, who protested with a melancholy wail every blessed minute.
Ignorant myself of the initiative steps on the threshold of time, I supposed this proceeding was approved by the best authorities.

However, I had been thinking, reading, observing, and had as little faith in the popular theories in regard to babies as on any other subject.

I saw them, on all sides, ill half the time, pale and peevish, dying early, having no joy in life.

I heard parents complaining of weary days and sleepless nights, while each child, in turn, ran the gauntlet of red gum, jaundice, whooping cough, chicken-pox, mumps, measles, scarlet fever, and fits.