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Using these teaching aids, the students (or mothers) practice the monthly
weighing of the ‘baby’. Between weighings, the ‘mother’ breast feeds the gourd
baby so that it gains weight each time.
It helps to hang a calendar on the wall
and change it to the next month before
each weighing. This helps everyone
understand that the skit represents a
period of several months.
For designs
for making
homemade scales,
see page 16-2.
Each ‘month’, as the baby is weighed, the health workers or mothers take turns
recording the baby’s age and weight on the flannel-board Road to Health chart.
In this way, everyone sees how the baby’s weight goes up each month, and how
the baby advances along the Road to Health.
The group can also act out various nutritional or health problems that could affect
the baby’s weight, and show how these appear on the chart.