Infant care / [United States Children's Bureau].

  • United States Children's Bureau
Date:
1935
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    of water, it will save trouble to have 8 or 10 nipples on hand. They can be boiled together once a day with the bottles and other utensils. After each feeding turn the nipple inside out and rinse it in cold water or brush it out with the bottle brush, making sure that the hole is not plugged with milk. Then put it away in the jar for used nipples until time for sterilizing. Cleanliness. Everything that touches or comes near the baby’s food should be perfectly clean. Clean milk can be spoiled by dirty handling. The mother must wash her hands before beginning to prepare the feeding, and if she has a cold she must wash her hands with special care and must not cough nor sneeze over the baby’s food. How to sterilize bottles, nepples, ete—LHvery utensil that is to be used after the milk mixture is boiled must be boiled five minutes. This includes the bottles, nipples, strainer, mixing spoon, and pitcher into which the boiled milk mixture is measured. The glass jar that holds the boiled nipples must be boiled, as well as the teaspoon used to take boiled nipples from the jar. Utensils to be used before the mixture is boiled need only be washed. Sterilization of the bottles and other utensils should not be done until the mother is ready to make up the day’s feeding. They should be placed in water in a covered kettle or pail large enough to allow the water to cover them completely. The large mixing spoon also should be placed in the pail, the handle resting on the edge of the kettle, so that when sterilization is complete, the spoon may be used to take out the articles one by one. It is convenient to have the bot- tles stand upside down in a rack. They should be filled with cold water and turned upside down in the rack, which is standing in the kettle of water, and the whole heated and allowed to boil five minutes. When sterilization 1s complete the rack may be lifted out and the bottles drained without being touched. After the milk mixture has been prepared and cooled turn the bottles right side up in the rack, being very careful not to touch the neck or hp. They can be filled and placed in the ice box while standing in the rack. If the mother has no rack the bottles must be filled with water and placed in the kettle lying on their sides with the other utensils. When sterilization is finished some of the water may be poured off and the bottles taken out with the long-handled spoon which has been boiled with them. The nipples, as well as the rubber caps or corks for the nursing bottles should be boiled for five minutes before they are used, either in a small tightly covered saucepan or with the other articles in the large sterilizing kettle. After the boiling take the nipples out of the water with the large spoon, drain them without touching them with the fingers, drop them into the empty sterilized glass jar, and