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3. Minor ailments of pregnancy.
4. Preparation and equipment for the confinement and lyingin
Clothing for the baby. Food for the mother. Engagement
of a nurse. Home cleanliness and the abolition of
vermin. Disinfection of the tenement. Disinfectant soap.
5. Premature birth—its causes and prevention.
6. Breast feeding. Systematic weighing. Test feeds. The
care of the mothers' breasts. Supplementary feeds.
Scanty milk. Loss of breast milk and how to bring it
back.
7. Artificial feeding. Boiled bread. Barley water. Oatmeal.
Tops and bottoms. Biscuits. Beer. Ale. Toffee apples.
Systematic weighing. A good type of feeding bottle.
8. The dummy or comforter. The bone or ivory ring. The
care of the feeding bottle. Feeding bottles suitable and
unsuitable.
9. The method and time of weaning. Feeding after weaning.
10. Patent foods.
11. How to undress and bath baby.
12. How to dress baby. Long clothes and short clothes.
Binders. Model clothes. The perambulator. Shortening.
13. Sleep and exercise. The cots. The banana crate. Overlying.
14. Baby's toilet and the care of its skin, navel., buttocks, folds
and creases. Powders. Olive oil Vaseline. Zinc ointment.
Boric ointment. Boracic ointment. Fuller's earth.
Puffs. Cotton wool. Napkins. The soft rag. The use
and abuse of toilet powders.
15. Teething. "Teething powders."
16. The care of the eyes in babies. Ophthalmia neonatorum.
The "blight."