A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . ulate the strength and quantityof the food, for the problem of feeding a premature child withartificial nourishment presents many difficulties, and is tooserious a matter for the nurse to undertake on her own respon-sibility. In general it may be said that the premature baby is toreceive food of half the strength and in half the amount, buttwice as often as would be given to a full-term child. The feeding in every case must be regulated to meet theneeds of the particular baby under treatment, but if the manage-ment is at all succe
A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . ulate the strength and quantityof the food, for the problem of feeding a premature child withartificial nourishment presents many difficulties, and is tooserious a matter for the nurse to undertake on her own respon-sibility. In general it may be said that the premature baby is toreceive food of half the strength and in half the amount, buttwice as often as would be given to a full-term child. The feeding in every case must be regulated to meet theneeds of the particular baby under treatment, but if the manage-ment is at all successful at the outset it will not be long beforemilk of the usual strength for a normal infant of correspond-ing age can be given with safety. The nurse will often be asked if a premature infant will everdevelop as well and be as strong and sturdy as one born atterm. It may safely be said that if the child can be made tolive and thrive during the first few weeks there is no reason whyit should not ultimately be as robust and healthy as any otherbaby (Fig. 157).. Fig. 157.—Infant premature at thirty weeks. Birth-weight, four and one-quarter in incubator sixty-four days. Age, nine months. Weight, seventeen and one-halfpounds. (Rotch.) XXIV The Accidents, Injuries, and Diseases of the New-Born The accidents that may occur at or shortly after birthinclude asphyxia and hemorrhage from the ccrd. Asphyxia has already been discussed on page 210. Hemorrhage from the cord may be primary, due to theslipping or loosening of the ligature, or secondary from the baseof the cord when it separates from the body. In the first instancethe bleeding is from the end of the cord and not from its base,and can be controlled by the proper application of a fresh liga-ture. The secondary hemorrhage, from the base of the cord,occurs at about the fifth to the eighth day when separation takesplace. It is often preceded by a jaundice, and is not anactual flow of blood but a persistent oo
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