The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-11
SAVE THE BABIES!

water) and set aside il a sunny place
for further cleansing before being
used again. II you have only a few
bottles and 1t becomes necessary to
use the same one for the next feed
ing, boil it for few minutes with a
little soda in the water before putting
fresh food into it. Never let the baby
nurse from the remains of a bottle
which he has not finished. Take it
away from the crib, pour out the milk
and clean at once Stale milk curds
sticking to the inside of the bottle,
becomes poisonous after a few hours
and may contaminate fresh milk com
Ing in contact with them. 1t is bet
ter and easier to have as many bot
ties as the daily number of feelings
SO that all can be boiled together be-
fore the food is prepared in the morn
ing.
The care of the nipples is especially
important. The simpler the safer. Do
not use complicated nipples, and es-
peclally do not use bottle with
long rubber tube 1t is impossible
to keep 1t clean and it will certainly
cause bowel trouble After bottle
is finished, the nipples should be re-
moved at once, turned inside out
over the finger and scrubbed with
cold water and a brush kept only
for this purpose. After use, always
boil the brush. The cleansed nipple
should be kept in fresh borax water
/ q teaspoonful to pint of water) in
covered glass. Rinse the nipple
, in boiling water before using it. Do
not put the nipple into your own
mouth to find out whether the milk
is warm enough. Let a few drops
fall on your wrist: if it is too hot
for your wrist, it is too hot for the
baby's mouth.
No general instructions can be Civ
en- about the preparation of milk
mixture for your baby. Each baby
needs a combination suited to his
digestion. The mixture upon which
some other baby is thriving may be
too strong or too weak for your baby.
Let your doctor tell you how to mix
the food. If it is necessary to use
cream do not buy it, it is likely to be
stale, but get it by pouring off half
pint from the top of quart bottle
of milk, after cleaning the mouth of
the bottle.
During the summer it is usual to
bring the baby's food to scald after
| it is prepared. 1t should then be
poured into the clean bottles, corked
with baked clean cotton and kept
next to the ice until needed Be sure
not to heat a bottle when you go to
bed and keep it in bed until nursing
time, because you do not want to go
| to the ice box for it and heat it when
the baby needs it. This is certain to
make the baby sick.
II a bottle fed baby is constipated
give one or two teaspoonfuls of cas-
tor oil. If this does not relieve him
! within four hours then consult your
doctor. At this time he will be able
TO prevent serious summer COM
plant with which your baby is threat
ened. If there is any diarrhoea, stop
the milk at once, give nothing but
pure water which has been boiled and
call the doctor. 1t may not be too
late.
Do not begin milk feeding again
until the doctor orders it. Every
drop of milk that goes into a baby's
mouth after bowel trouble begins,
simply adds to the poison already
there. Serious or fatal Illness can
be caused by keeping up milk feed
ing after the bowels become disorder
ed bottle-fed baby should not
vomit If its food is pure, unless 1t is
fed too much at time. Vomiting
is usually sign of approaching ILL
ness, either one of the serious dis
eases of childhood, or more common
ly in hot weather, of summer diarr-
doea. Vomiting due to this cause
may be the first sign of trouble.
IL vomiting is repeated stop feeding
milk give water which has been boil
ed, cool or at the temperature at
which the milk is given, and consult
your doctor at once.
Do not put much clothing on the
baby in the summer. During the hot
test weather a thin. loose dress and
a dieper are enough for day and
might. Never use tight waist bHlds
Petticoats and skirts should be sup
ported by straps over the shoulders.
Battle the baby every day. When
LIT is very hot quick sponging all