A handbook of obstetrical nursing for nurses, students, and mothers . without spoiling, as it is hermetically sealed andhas been deprived of all unhealthy germs. Starr makes the assertion that it will keepfor eighteen days if the heating is continued forthirty minutes. Sterilized milk is useful when traveling, as it maybe carried without any trouble, the difficulty olobtaining fresh milk being thus overcome. Its usemakes the management of babies during the heatof summer much easier. A word remains to be said concerning feedingbottles and rubber nipples. The bottle should be of clear g
A handbook of obstetrical nursing for nurses, students, and mothers . without spoiling, as it is hermetically sealed andhas been deprived of all unhealthy germs. Starr makes the assertion that it will keepfor eighteen days if the heating is continued forthirty minutes. Sterilized milk is useful when traveling, as it maybe carried without any trouble, the difficulty olobtaining fresh milk being thus overcome. Its usemakes the management of babies during the heatof summer much easier. A word remains to be said concerning feedingbottles and rubber nipples. The bottle should be of clear glass, with arounded bottom, of a shape convenient to clean, sothat no particles may cling about corners whichcannot be reached, serving as a source of troubleafterward. The graduated bottle is very nice, as itenables the quantity of each of the materials used CARE OF THE NEW-BORN INFANT. 163 in the preparation of the feeding to be mixeddirectly in the bottle, instead of being first measuredout in a graduate. Feeding-bottles with India-rubber tubes are very Fig. Graduated Nursing Bottle (Dr. Louis Starr), objectionable, for the tubes are difficult to keepclean, and a drop or two of milk left behind willoften be sufficient to turn the next supply sour, 164 OBSTETRICAL NURSING. causing the infant much sickness and are prone, also, with these tubes, to placethe baby in its crib with the bottle of milk by itsside and the nipple in its mouth. The heat of thechilds body tends to sour the milk, the liquid mayrun low, and the child suck in considerable neck of the bottle should always be kept filledwith the liquid while the child is nursing, hencethe position of the bottle must be changed. Afeeding-bottle fitted with a rubber nipple requiresto be held in the nurses hand during the feeding,and is, on that account, to be preferred. Thereshould always be two nursing-bottles for each baby,one being kept under water or filled with a sodasolution while the other
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