How to Protect Your Child 1. Placing a key next to an infant will prevent him from being exchanged. 2. Women may never be left alone during the first six weeks following childbirth, for the devil then has more power over them. 3. During the first six weeks following childbirth, mothers may not go to sleep until someone has come to watch the child. If mothers are overcome by sleep, changelings are often laid in the cradle. Jacob Grimm
