Baby's first month : hints to fathers and mothers / by F. Truby King.
- Truby King
- Date:
- 1913
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Baby's first month : hints to fathers and mothers / by F. Truby King. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![c. A. USE OF SODA-WATER BOTTLE, as described opposite. See the milk lying in the shoulder of the bottle. A small wineglassful was drawn off in four minutes, with the one application, causing the mother no discomfort. Note the right hand of the nurse using gentle manipulation of the breast, to assist the suction. B. BREAST-PUMP (see page 10). Squeeze the india-rubber bulb and then apply the glass mouth of the pump, moistened with glycerine and water, over the nipple, keeping the glass bulb directed downwards, so that the milk may flow into it as the india-rubber bulb slowly expands. At the same time use gentle manipulation. C. NIPPLE-SHIELD (see page effected by the baby. D. 10). In this ease the suction is E. D, E. Healthy, bright, happy babies of our two representative races. Both were entirely breast-fed. The Maori when photographed, though only five months old, weighed 16 lb. The white baby, who was a month or so older, weighed a little over the average. He was entirely breast-fed, never had more than six feedings in the twenty-four hours, never had any night- feeding, and always slept out on a balcony from the time when he was a few days old. Such babies as these give no trouble, are a joy in the home, rarely become ill, and, if they do get anything wrong with them, soon throw it off. To fact- pa^e 12.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21017797_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
