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Obstetrical Nursing: A Text-Book on the Nursing Care of the Expectant Mother, the Woman in Labor, the Young Mother and Her BabyVan Blarcom, Carolyn Conant

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Obstetrical Nursing: A Text-Book on the Nursing Care of the Expectant Mother, the Woman in Labor, the Young Mother and Her Baby

Name: Obstetrical Nursing: A Text-Book on the Nursing Care of the Expectant Mother, the Woman in Labor, the Young Mother and Her Baby
Author: Van Blarcom, Carolyn Conant

Van Blarcom, Carolyn Conant

Infants -- Care; Maternity nursing; Pregnancy

In the course of this group instruction the women are taught how to
prepare for, and later care for their babies. One week, the nurse
demonstrates to the group how to handle the baby, dressing and
undressing or bathing it; or explains the reason for making each article
in the model layette, or the purpose and use of each article on the
toilet tray, and shows them how to make boric acid solution and swabs.
In short, each detail in the care of the baby is gone over. Every
alternate week the mothers demonstrate to the nurse. They dress and
undress the doll model; explain and demonstrate how to make boric acid
solution; how to prepare sterile water and give it to the baby. Many of
the mothers attend the classes for several weeks in succession, and
frequently a mother returns with her three-week-old baby to make sure
that she has not forgotten any of the details of infant care which the
nurse tried to teach her before the baby came.

[Illustration:

  FIG. 145.—Layette recommended to patients by Maternity Centre
    Association:

  A. Flannel binder.
  B. Knitted band with straps.
  C. Shirt.
  D. Petticoat.
  E. Dress or nightgown.
  F. Diaper.
  G. Pad for basket-bed.
  H. Flannel square.
]

[Illustration:

  FIG. 146.—_Breast tray_ improvised from articles to be found in any
    home, contains: Jar of cotton pledgets; bottle of liquid petrolatum;
    soap on saucer, covered with cup for water to bathe nipples. (By
    courtesy of the Maternity Centre Association.)
]

A patient is not asked to go to the Centre for any reason if she seems
very reluctant to go; or if her going is inadvisable for physical
reasons or if it would entail great hardship, because of young children
who would have to be taken with her, or left at home alone. But when
they can go, it simplifies the work and enables each nurse to supervise
a larger number of patients than if she did all of the traveling and
visiting.

[Illustration:

  FIG. 147.—_Baby’s toilet tray_ equipped with jelly glasses, bottles,
    celluloid hair receiver for cotton, and a soap dish, containing:

  1. Safety pins sticking in cake of soap.
  2. Jar for sterile nipples.
  3. Jar of sterile water.
  4. Jar of boracic acid solution.
  5. Nursing bottle.
  6. Sterile water to drink.
  7. Nursing bottle for water.
  8. Small tooth pick swabs.
  9. Liquid petrolatum.
  10. Gauze mouth swabs.
  11. Absorbent cotton.
  12. Soap.

  (By courtesy of the Maternity Centre Association.)
]

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Obstetrical Nursing: A Text-Book on the Nursing Care of the Expectant Mother, the Woman in Labor, the Young Mother and Her BabyVan Blarcom, Carolyn Conant

Science

Obstetrical Nursing: A Text-Book on the Nursing Care of the Expectant Mother, the Woman in Labor, the Young Mother and Her Baby

Van Blarcom, Carolyn Conant

Infants -- Care; Maternity nursing; Pregnancy

In the course of this group instruction the women are taught how to
prepare for, and later care for their babies. One week, the nurse
demonstrates to the group how to handle the baby, dressing and
undressing or bathing it; or explains the reason for making each article
in the model layette, or the purpose and use of each article on the
toilet tray, and shows them how to make boric acid solution and swabs.
In short, each detail in the care of the baby is gone over. Every
alternate week the mothers demonstrate to the nurse. They dress and
undress the doll model; explain and demonstrate how to make boric acid
solution; how to prepare sterile water and give it to the baby. Many of
the mothers attend the classes for several weeks in succession, and
frequently a mother returns with her three-week-old baby to make sure
that she has not forgotten any of the details of infant care which the
nurse tried to teach her before the baby came.

[Illustration:

  FIG. 145.—Layette recommended to patients by Maternity Centre
    Association:

  A. Flannel binder.
  B. Knitted band with straps.
  C. Shirt.
  D. Petticoat.
  E. Dress or nightgown.
  F. Diaper.
  G. Pad for basket-bed.
  H. Flannel square.
]

[Illustration:

  FIG. 146.—_Breast tray_ improvised from articles to be found in any
    home, contains: Jar of cotton pledgets; bottle of liquid petrolatum;
    soap on saucer, covered with cup for water to bathe nipples. (By
    courtesy of the Maternity Centre Association.)
]

A patient is not asked to go to the Centre for any reason if she seems
very reluctant to go; or if her going is inadvisable for physical
reasons or if it would entail great hardship, because of young children
who would have to be taken with her, or left at home alone. But when
they can go, it simplifies the work and enables each nurse to supervise
a larger number of patients than if she did all of the traveling and
visiting.

[Illustration:

  FIG. 147.—_Baby’s toilet tray_ equipped with jelly glasses, bottles,
    celluloid hair receiver for cotton, and a soap dish, containing:

  1. Safety pins sticking in cake of soap.
  2. Jar for sterile nipples.
  3. Jar of sterile water.
  4. Jar of boracic acid solution.
  5. Nursing bottle.
  6. Sterile water to drink.
  7. Nursing bottle for water.
  8. Small tooth pick swabs.
  9. Liquid petrolatum.
  10. Gauze mouth swabs.
  11. Absorbent cotton.
  12. Soap.

  (By courtesy of the Maternity Centre Association.)
]

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Obstetrical Nursing: A Text-Book on the Nursing Care of the Expectant Mother, the Woman in Labor, the Young Mother and Her Baby

Obstetrical Nursing: A Text-Book on the Nursing Care of the Expectant Mother, the Woman in Labor, the Young Mother and Her Baby

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