. All about the baby and preparations for its advent. n page bottles must have their mouths carefully dried andstopped with plugs of ordinary raw cotton. They arethen placed in the rack in the sterilizing chamber andthe lid and hood are applied. The pan of the sterilizer ARTIFICIAL FEEDING. On is now filled two-thirds full with water, and the wholeis plaeed on the hot stove for an hour. About twentyminutes of this time will be occupied in heating- themilk lip to theproper temper-ature, and theremainder inkeeping it atthat point andthus sterilizing-it. Raw cottonis used as a plugbecause
. All about the baby and preparations for its advent. n page bottles must have their mouths carefully dried andstopped with plugs of ordinary raw cotton. They arethen placed in the rack in the sterilizing chamber andthe lid and hood are applied. The pan of the sterilizer ARTIFICIAL FEEDING. On is now filled two-thirds full with water, and the wholeis plaeed on the hot stove for an hour. About twentyminutes of this time will be occupied in heating- themilk lip to theproper temper-ature, and theremainder inkeeping it atthat point andthus sterilizing-it. Raw cottonis used as a plugbecause experi-ence shows thatthe most minutegerms can notpass through is necessary,however, that itshall not comeinto contactwith the it is de-sired to carrythe bottlesabout to any ex-tent after steril-izing, it is betterto use a rubbercork instead ofcotton. In thiscase the bottles,with the corks very loosely in place, are put in thesterilizer for about twenty minutes until the liquid andthe air contained is thoroughly heated. The corks are. Fig. 96 ALL ABOUT THE BABY. then pushed firmly into place and the sterilizing iscontinued. The bottles thus corked may lie afterwardin any position. Sterilized milk prepared in this wayshould keep perfectly sweet without being placed onice. As an additional safeguard, however, it is betterto keep the bottles in a cool place, although this is notneeded if the process has been properly carried out. Do not forget that the cotton plug must never beremoved, even for a moment, from the time it is firstput in place until the time for feeding the baby comes. Food prepared as described above will keep per-fectly well for twenty-four hours at least, but in thehottest weather it is an additional safeguard to reheatin the evening the bottles which are to be used duringthe night and early morning. But if one is traveling it seems impracticable to con-tinue the ?ise of sterilized milk. Is it not so ? The difficulty is easily overcome by steriliz
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