Exercises. 3 to 10 minutes. (Begin at one month, see page [112].) Fill tub to depth covering abdomen of baby; note temperature with thermometer.
Wrap the towel around the baby and put on cuspidor to urinate. Keep towel around the baby until ready for the tub. Ears, eyes, and head are washed before going in the tub; also the buttocks, if soiled, using the diaper basin and cloth, not the bath water.
Ears. Use sterilized cheesecloth or old soft muslin squares, little or no soap.
Use warm water from tub.
Wash carefully in all creases and behind the ears; let no dirt remain.
Apply albolene or liquid vaseline for scurf.
Never use a pointed instrument; “never put anything smaller than your elbow in the ear.”
Put soiled gauze in tissue paper receptacle.
Nose. Clean each nostril with a fresh cheesecloth square rolled to a point.
Dip the gauze in the liquid vaseline or albolene, and then push gauze gently into the nostril and twist around, until nostril is clean.