Identifier: nurseshandboo00cook (find matches)
Title: A nurse's handbook of obstetrics, for use in training-schools
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Cooke, Joseph Brown. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Obstetrics
Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ts clothing,administering nourishment, altering its position, or cleansingits body. Light is to be curtailed by placing a shawl or other-pieceof dark cloth over the glass top of the incubator, and loud orsudden noises must be forbidden. The skin, in these cases, is extremely delicate and tender,and diapers must be changed the instant they become wet orsoiled, or severe scalding will occur within a few hours. The child is not to be bathed except as is necessary forcleanliness, and wnen the diapers are changed the buttocks mustnot be washed with soap and water, but wiped carefully withcotton dipped in warm oil or albolene and then dried with cottonalone. The cotton jacket is to be changed twice daily, care beingtaken that the fresh one is warm and ready for instant use themoment the old one is removed. As soon as the nurse can spare the time from her other dutiesa more workmanlike jacket of cotton and gauze is to be made forthe infant, and the hastily improvised turban is to be replaced
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Fig. 154.—Premature infant (about seventh month) properly attired in cotton jacketand hood, and removed from incubator only long enough to be photographed ; weight, twopounds three and one-half ounces; present age, five days. Case of central placenta praevia,seen in consultation with Dr. E. C. Pixley, of New York City. FOOD FOR THE PREMATURE INFANT. 295 by a properly constructed hood (Fig. 154). As a great manyjackets and hoods will be required by the child before it is strongenough to give them up entirely, a good supply should be pro-vided in order that fresh clean ones may be had at a momentsnotice. The weight and temperature of the child are both matters ofthe greatest importance, for, as in the case of any baby, ifthe child loses weight and its temperature goes up, it is anevidence that its food is either insufficient or of improperquality. The temperature is to be taken in the rectum andrecorded on a chart every night and morning, and the weight isto be taken and carefully rec

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