A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . e the breast secretesnothing but colostrum, a laxative substance containing prac-tically no nourishment whatever. If the infant does not seemsatisfied with this diet of colostrum, the nurse may give it afive per cent, solution of milk-sugar made up with boiled teaspoonful of sugar to twenty of water makes the solutionin the required proportion, and it is best given in an ordinarytwo-ounce vial fitted with a small rubber nipple (Fig. 168). Ifa small enough nipple cannot be obtained, one may be impro-vised by taking the ru
A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . e the breast secretesnothing but colostrum, a laxative substance containing prac-tically no nourishment whatever. If the infant does not seemsatisfied with this diet of colostrum, the nurse may give it afive per cent, solution of milk-sugar made up with boiled teaspoonful of sugar to twenty of water makes the solutionin the required proportion, and it is best given in an ordinarytwo-ounce vial fitted with a small rubber nipple (Fig. 168). Ifa small enough nipple cannot be obtained, one may be impro-vised by taking the rubber cap of a medicine dropper andpiercing it with a good-sized needle. At or about the end of forty-eight hours the true milk beginsto appear in the breast, and the infant should now be nursedevery two hours from six to ten , with one night feed-ing at two This plan gives the mother two uninterrupted HOURS FOR NURSING. 313 periods of four hours each for sleep, and it is to be adheredto until the child is six weeks old, after which the intervals. Fig. 168.—Two-ounce vial with nipple. For administering nourishment, water, or sugarsolution to a very young infant. between the feedings can be increased gradually until the fourthmonth is reached, when the night feeding can often be omittedentirely. For convenience of reference the hours for nursing may betabulated as below: First two days Every four hours. Third day to sixth week j 2, 6, 8, 10, 12 I 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 Six weeks to ten weeks { , 7, 9-3, 12 I , 5, , IO Ten weeks to four months { 23° 7 IO AM I I, 4, 7, IO Four months to nine months < IO 11, 4, 7, 10 Of course, different meal-times might be chosen with thesame intervals between, but the hours given are those which areleast likely to interfere with the meals and other affairs of the 314 A NURSES HANDBOOK OF OBSTETRICS. household. Nurses, and physicians as well, will find it a greatconvenience to adopt the same fee
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