A handbook of obstetrical nursing for nurses, students, and mothersComprising the course of instruction in obstetrical nursing given to the pupils of the training school for nurses connected with the Woman's hospital of Philadelphia . Auvards Couveuse (Exterior View). siphon—a small quantity of water poured into thecylinder through the funnel being sufficient to startthe liquid. Before the couveuse was known prematurebabies were swaddled in cotton, in order to be kept Cottonswaddling. 192 OBSTETRICAL NURSING. sufficiently warm. The directions for doing thisare as follows :— Take a square baby-
A handbook of obstetrical nursing for nurses, students, and mothersComprising the course of instruction in obstetrical nursing given to the pupils of the training school for nurses connected with the Woman's hospital of Philadelphia . Auvards Couveuse (Exterior View). siphon—a small quantity of water poured into thecylinder through the funnel being sufficient to startthe liquid. Before the couveuse was known prematurebabies were swaddled in cotton, in order to be kept Cottonswaddling. 192 OBSTETRICAL NURSING. sufficiently warm. The directions for doing thisare as follows :— Take a square baby-blanket and place it diagon-ally on the table or bed. Turn down one cornerfor four inches distance, to come up over thebabys head. Spread over this blanket a lap ofraw cotton. Have the babys napkin and binderon and a flannel undervest. Make a cap out ofthe cotton, fitting it over the babys head and Fig. Swaddled Baby. bringing it down well under the chin. Then rollthe baby up in the cotton lap. Bring the blanketaround this firmly, so as to hold it; the portion ofthe blanket on the babys right being brought overand tucked in on the left side, the portion on theleft being correspondingly folded over toward theright. The corner of the blanket left at the feet isthen folded up over the front, and the whole heldin place by means of a strip of muslin bandage or THE AILMENTS OF EARLY INFANCY. 193 ribbon. The bandage is first applied beneath thechin, crossed under the back, again crossed infront, the ends being brought forward to fasten ina bow-knot at the feet. The great disadvantages of this method may beseen in the restriction it gives to the movementsof the childs limbs and the difficulty of determiningwhen the childs napkin needs changing, also thefrequent exposure of the child during these changesto the ordinary atmosphere. The skin of a premature baby should be well Protection . r . ,
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