=Weight.=—The weighing of the child should precede, for convenience, the first cleaning of the skin and the daily bath. The child is either put on the scale naked or weighed in a blanket, and the weight of the blanket, ascertained before or after, is subtracted. The daily weight record is just as important as the temperature. A scale that registers ounces and fractions thereof must be used, and the child should be guarded from falling during the performance. Usually the child loses from eight ounces to a pound the first week, but it should gain back to its birth weight, by the end of the second week. If the child does not gain, it may be due to lack of milk from the breast, and the weight may be taken before and after feeding to verify or refute the suspicion. =The mouth= should be inspected each morning, but not cleansed with the boric acid solution unless definitely indicated. Spots or any unusual appearance should be reported. =The Genitals.=—The vulva of the female infant usually requires but little care besides cleanliness. There is sometimes a whitish discharge which disappears spontaneously in a few days. It is a drainage of vernix, smegma and epithelium from the vagina and labia. With a male, the prepuce must be inspected when the child is about a week old. If it is long and the orifice small, circumcision may be suggested. Under any circumstances, the foreskin must be retracted, the adhesions broken up, and the smegma removed. This must be repeated daily until the adhesions do not recur. The maneuver should be done the first few times by the physician, for fear of a paraphimosis. =Sleep= in the newborn is normally quite deep and almost continuous, probably twenty-two hours a day, for the first week. The rather fast respiration of the child, even when sleeping, is no cause for alarm. A healthy infant breathes about twenty-five times a minute. The child should not be rocked, carried about, exhibited, or handled more than necessary. It should not sleep with the mother, lest it become too hot or too cold, be overwhelmed by bedding, or overlaid by the mother. =Bowels.=—The first stools are black and tar-like,—this is meconium. It disappears by the end of the first week. The presence or absence and the character of an evacuation, as well as the number in twenty-four hours, must be daily recorded. For a breast-fed child, there should be three or four a day, for the first ten days and the number should gradually diminish until a routine of two a day is obtained. =The diaper= of bird’s-eye linen should be large and thick; two may be used if required. They should be carefully washed after soiling. Bluing must not be used, because where this substance comes in contact with the skin, irritation follows. =Weaning= should be brought about by the gradual substitution of other foods, somewhere between the sixth and twelfth months.