A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . basin of hotwater, until enough is collected for one meal. It seldom happens that a premature baby is strong enoughto nurse from a bottle, and the milk must be fed with a spoon,a medicine dropper, or some other appliance that will do awaywith all effort on the part of the child. Dr. Breck has devised a feeder for premature infants(Fig. 156) consisting of a graduated glass tube with a small rub-ber nipple at the smaller end and a rubber finger-cot at thelarger. The cot serves as an air reservoir, and, when the nippleis placed in th
A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools . basin of hotwater, until enough is collected for one meal. It seldom happens that a premature baby is strong enoughto nurse from a bottle, and the milk must be fed with a spoon,a medicine dropper, or some other appliance that will do awaywith all effort on the part of the child. Dr. Breck has devised a feeder for premature infants(Fig. 156) consisting of a graduated glass tube with a small rub-ber nipple at the smaller end and a rubber finger-cot at thelarger. The cot serves as an air reservoir, and, when the nippleis placed in the infants mouth, slight intermittent pressure onthe cot will enable the child to get the milk without any effortwhatever beyond that of swallowing. METHODS OF FEEDING. 29y To fill the feeder the nipple and cot are removed, a corkfitted snugly in the smaller end, and the proper quantity ofmilk poured in through the larger opening. The cot is thenattached to the top, the feeder inverted, and, after the corkis removed, the nipple is slipped over the smaller ._ a Fig. 156.—Feeder for premature infant. (Rotch.) The amount of milk for each feeding should at first be fromtwo to three drachms, and the food should be given as often asevery hour during the day and every two hours at night. The care of the breast-pump and nursing-bottle, or feeder,whichever is used, is of the utmost importance, for, if germs 298 A NURSES HANDBOOK OF OBSTETRICS. of any sort are allowed to collect in them, the milk will becontaminated and the life of the infant will be greatly en-dangered. The cot and nipple are to be cleansed with soap andwater inside and out, rinsed thoroughly, and boiled for riveminutes before each feeding. The bottle, or glass portion of the feeder or breast-pump, must also be cleansed with the greatestcare by scrubbing, rinsing, and boiling. It is well to have a number of feeders, bottles, nipples, and-cots, so that several of each may be boiled at one time andkept in sterile b
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