Sentence examples for practice baby from inspiring English sources
Grunwald's novel imagines the life of a midcentury orphan used as a "practice baby" in a college home economics program.
This was no practice baby formed of mud that she would toss into a drain miles away from her home.
Grunwald's thoughtful novel imagines the life of a midcentury orphan used as a "practice baby" in a college home ec program.
Taking her inspiration from a real photo of a "practice baby" given the last name "Domecon" (short for "Domestic Economics") by Cornell University, Ms. Grunwald elaborately imagines how this odd nurturing process would have affected a child.
The novel centers on the so-called "practice baby" phenomenon once common at university home-economics programs, in which students would borrow orphan babies for hands-on experience, and follows the life of one such baby who was borrowed by the head of the program; she refused to give him back.
Most practice babies enjoyed the students' blandishments only briefly and then were returned to their orphanages, deemed especially good candidates for adoption.
Only four of the hospitals (29%) had a policy that babies should room-in with their mothers, although eight hospitals reported that in practice babies do stay with their mother all the time including overnight.
In addition to the recruitment strategies outlined above, study leaflets are distributed to women when they attend their practice for baby clinic/check.
Practice using baby signs all the time.
Usual practice for babies needing assessment and immediate neonatal care is either to take the baby to the side of the room or to another room nearby.
