Guidelines for an Infant - Resuscitation

Title: Guidelines for an Infant - Resuscitation
Medium: Monotype with chine collé
Size: 50.5 x 33.5 cm
Edition size: 1/1

The guidelines deal with straightforward and practical issues, and offer no help with how to convince a child that living is a good proposition. What guidelines to help bring the infant back from emotional death?

Guidelines for an Infant

"A pamphlet handed out to new mothers by the South African Department of Health c.1965, offers guidance on how ‘to keep baby healthy and happy’. I am dazed by the matter-of-fact approach that contradicts my own parenting experience. All of the instructions lead to the separating and the letting go, that will ultimately define good mothering." Erika Hibbert, 2018