The nurse's guide : containing a series of instructions to females who wish to engage in the important business of nursing mother and child in the lying-in chamber / by J. Warrington.

  • Warrington, Joseph, -1888.
Date:
1839
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Credit: The nurse's guide : containing a series of instructions to females who wish to engage in the important business of nursing mother and child in the lying-in chamber / by J. Warrington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    convenience of the inmates of the lying-in room; and great care should be taken to avoid all parade of apparatus on the occa- sion calculated to make an impression on the mind of the sensitive young lady, that the nurse is preparing for some severe and hazardous operation, of which she is to be the subject. In some countries, especially in France, most women who can command it, have a bed for the special purpose of delivery, in- tending that, as soon as they have recovered from the fatigue of labour, they will be re- moved from it to the bed on which they usually repose. We think the inconveniences overbalance the advantages of this method, and would therefore lay it down as a rule for the nurse to refer the patient to the counsel of the accoucheur in such a matter. Let it be the constant aim of the physician and nurse when proposing arrangements for the lying-in room, to do every thing possible beforehand, and have little left to be done after the labour is over, but to slide the mother up to her place in the bed, where she may be allowed com-