A handbook of obstetrical nursing for nurses, students, and mothers . Nipple Shield. wood. Leaden protectors keep the nipples soft inthe intervals of nursing, and have a healing effectupon the abrasions and cracks of a tender care be taken, however, to cleanse the nipplethoroughly before the, baby nurses, there is dangerof lead-poisoning. Nipple protectors of glass andwood, being open at the top, are intended more tokeep the clothing of the patient off the tender * See Fig. 6, page 43. MANAGEMENT OF THE LYING-IN. 183 nipple.* The nipple may, in addition, be kept moistin the inter


A handbook of obstetrical nursing for nurses, students, and mothers . Nipple Shield. wood. Leaden protectors keep the nipples soft inthe intervals of nursing, and have a healing effectupon the abrasions and cracks of a tender care be taken, however, to cleanse the nipplethoroughly before the, baby nurses, there is dangerof lead-poisoning. Nipple protectors of glass andwood, being open at the top, are intended more tokeep the clothing of the patient off the tender * See Fig. 6, page 43. MANAGEMENT OF THE LYING-IN. 183 nipple.* The nipple may, in addition, be kept moistin the intervals of nursing by the application overit of a piece of absorbent cotton saturated with amixture of one part glycerine to two parts water. Nipples vary much in shape—thus they may beVariation in shape ofnipples. Fig.


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