1. A big covered kettle or dish pan. This should measure at least eighteen inches in diameter, so that all other utensils may be boiled in it at one time.
  2. Bottles. There should be as many bottles as there are feedings in one day.
  3. Nipples. It is important to select those that can be turned wrong side out to be cleaned.
  4. A bottle brush.
  5. A nipple brush.
  6. A sixteen-ounce graduated measuring glass.
  7. A tablespoon, teaspoon, and cream dipper.
  8. A teapot of enamel or agateware in which sterile water is kept for use as needed.
  9. A wire rack for holding bottles.
  10. A roll of nonabsorbent cotton for the stoppers for the feeding bottles.

Pasteurizing. This process consists of heating the milk to 145° F. and keeping it at this temperature for thirty minutes. The following method may be used: Fill the bottles with the modified milk and place in the wire rack. Put the rack in a dish of water, with the water just above the level of the milk. Suspend a milk thermometer in the water and heat until the thermometer registers 145° F. Keep at this temperature for thirty minutes, then take out the rack and cork the bottles at once. Place carefully in a dish of cool water or put an inverted basin over the rack containing the bottles and set under the cold-water faucet. Cool quickly and place on the ice at once.

PASTEURIZING THE BABY’S MILK

If no pasteurizing outfit is at hand, the bottles of milk may be heated in a double boiler until the steam arises. Continue heating at this temperature for fifteen minutes. If the pasteurized milk is used for a long time, it is well to give the baby orange juice to prevent rickets and scurvy. This should be given in the morning, regularly, three quarters of an hour before feeding time. One teaspoonful should be given at first, and the amount gradually increased up to one tablespoonful.

CHAPTER VI
CARE OF THE BABY’S FOOD

Suggestions for demonstrations. 1. Show a homemade refrigerator. 2. Demonstrate the care of bottles. 3. Demonstrate the care of rubber nipples. 4. Demonstrate the process of sterilizing water.

Homemade refrigerator. An ice box to keep the baby’s milk in good condition may be made in the following way at very little cost: In a wooden box about eighteen inches square and of about the same depth, put a layer of sawdust three inches deep. Then put a ten-quart pail (or a larger one) in the center of the box. Add more sawdust and put a cardboard collar around the pail, to keep the sawdust in place. It is also well to put a layer of cheesecloth over the sawdust. Inside this pail place another (smaller) one, to hold the ice. The bottles are put in the larger pail, which should be securely covered, and a bag of sawdust is placed over it. The box should be tightly closed by a wooden cover lined with several thicknesses of newspaper. The inner pail should be taken out and cleaned every morning.

HOMEMADE REFRIGERATOR