Yet it is but a little human babe,
Given at last into his reaching arms
And carried to the hollow of her breast!
Marguerite Wilkinson.
PART VII
THE CARE OF THE BABY
CHAPTER XXI. CHARACTERISTICS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE AVERAGE NEW-BORN BABY. New Functions. Description. Growth and Development. Weight. Height. Head and Chest. Fontanelles. Teeth. Stools and Urine. Skin. Tears. General Behavior.
CHAPTER XXII. NURSING CARE OF THE NEW-BORN BABY. Mortality of First Months and Year of Life. Preventable Causes. Dangers of Babyhood. Essential Features of Early Care. Daily Schedule. Bath. Clothes. Fresh Air. Exercise. Training the Baby. Bowels. Thumb-sucking. Ear-pulling. Crying. Ruminating. Feeding: Breast Feeding. Artificial Feeding. Necessary Characteristics of Artificial Food. Requirements for Milk Used. Articles Needed in Preparing Food. Preparation of Milk. Pasteurization. Boiling. Giving the Bottle. Ingredients of Food. Percentage Feeding. Average Formulae. Mixed Feeding. Commercial Baby Foods. Proprietary Foods, Canned Milks, Milk Powders. Other Articles of Food Sometimes Included in Baby Diet. Travelling. The Premature Baby. Summer Care of the Baby.
CHAPTER XXIII. COMMON DISORDERS AND ABNORMALITIES OF EARLY INFANCY. Malnutrition, Marasmus and Inanition. Diarrheal Diseases: Acute Gastro-enteritis. Symptoms. Treatment and Nursing Care. Acidosis. Colic, Constipation, Convulsions, and Vomiting. Infections: Ophthalmia Neonatorum. Symptoms, Treatment, and Nursing Care. Syphilis. Thrush, or Sprue. Impetigo. Pemphigus. Vaginitis. Abnormalities: Icterus or Jaundice. Cephalhematoma. Club Foot. Engorgement of Breasts. Hare Lip. Cleft Palate. Hernia.
CHAPTER XXI
CHARACTERISTICS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE AVERAGE NEW-BORN BABY
Before undertaking the care of the new-born baby the nurse should stop and consider him for a moment and review in her mind just what he represents; what he has been through; what struggles and dangers are ahead of him; what are the weaknesses of his equipment to meet these perils and what must be the character of her service to him if she is to do all in her power to help him safely over that most hazardous period in the entire span of his existence: the first month of his life.