Getting to know your baby
Guidance in guide form: crying, bathing, clothing, temperature and feeding in the first months.
Written as a guide, "Getting to know your baby" gathers the most frequent questions of the first months: why the baby cries, how to bathe, how much to wrap up, what fever is and how to feed. These were the questions that reached the office of a clinician who saw "adults and children", as the clinic advertisement said.
The text reflects the paediatric care of its time, before many current recommendations. That is why the memorial presents it as a 1997 document, not as guidance for today's parents.
What remains is the stance: teach the family to observe. Pedro believed well-informed parents were the first to notice when something was wrong, and several of his accounts confirm it.
This article is part of the historical archive of Pedro Moretti Guedes. It should be read as a document of its time: Medicine, pharmacology and health recommendations have changed since publication.
The original clipping is preserved by the family and will be published here once the scan can be checked against the original.