A handbook of obstetrical nursing for nurses, students, and mothers . Auvards Couveuse (Exterior View). To empty the cylinder, a rubber tube is attachedto the escape-pipes, by which it is made to act as asiphon—a small quantity of water poured into thecylinder through the funnel being sufficient to startthe liquid. THE AILMENTS OF EARLY INFANCY. 229 Before the couveuse was known premature Cotton , . - , swaddling. babies were swaddled in cotton, in order to be keptsufficiently warm. The directions for doing thisare as follows :— Take a square baby-blanket and place it diagon-ally on the table
A handbook of obstetrical nursing for nurses, students, and mothers . Auvards Couveuse (Exterior View). To empty the cylinder, a rubber tube is attachedto the escape-pipes, by which it is made to act as asiphon—a small quantity of water poured into thecylinder through the funnel being sufficient to startthe liquid. THE AILMENTS OF EARLY INFANCY. 229 Before the couveuse was known premature Cotton , . - , swaddling. babies were swaddled in cotton, in order to be keptsufficiently 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 binder Fig. Swaddled Baby. on and a flannel undervest. Make a cap out of thecotton, fitting it over the babys head and bringingit down well under the chin. Then roll the babyup in the cotton lap. Bring the blanket aroundthis firmly, so as to hold it; the portion of theblanket on the babys right being brought over andtucked in on the left side, the portion on the leftbeing correspondingly folded over toward theright. The corner of the blanket left at the feet is 23O OBSTETRICAL NURSING. then folded up over the front, and the whole heldin place by means of a strip of muslin bandage orribbon. The bandage is first applied beneath thechin, crossed under the back, again crossed in front,the ends being brought forward to fasten in a bow-knot at the feet. The great disadvantages of this method may beseen in the restriction it gives to the movements ofthe childs limbs and the difficulty of determiningwhen the childs napkin needs changing, also thefrequent exposure of the child during these changesto the o
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