At eight or ten months the baby may be supported on the toilet seat, by using the baby’s detachable toilet chair now manufactured. A nursery chair for this purpose is not advised. They are usually wrongly proportioned and constructed; and the child is usually left alone to sit for half an hour or more, thereby inducing local irritation, deferred action, prolapsis of the rectum through straining, or bad habits. The mother or nurse should always stay with the child, and the least possible time should be permitted.
Change the diaper as soon as the baby wakes or immediately, if it becomes wet while he is awake. (The urine is salty, sometimes acid, and always irritating.)
Before removing diaper, have at hand everything needed, viz.:
Clean, dry, warm, folded diaper
Diaper preferably folded oblong and fastened at the sides
Diaper handbasin with warm water
Special wash cloth and towel kept only for diapering
Powder, zinc ointment
Diaper bucket
Lay the baby on the nursery table, on a Turkish towel.
If pins are used, put into blanket at right hand, removed from baby’s reach.
Remove the diaper and drop it into bucket.
Wash baby clean and pat dry, especially in creases.
Use powder very sparingly or not at all.
Use albolene or zinc ointment for chafed places.