HINTS TO MOTHERS.
VALUE OF ICE IN TEETHING. I WISH all mothers knew of the wonderful value of ice during baby’s teething period. Keep for the purpose remnants of fine, firm table napkins, and tie securely inside bits of ice, making a bag of ice, which will fit comfortably into baby’s mouth, and leaving enough of the dry linen hanging below for him to hold it by. A child will press hard and bite down eagerly upon this with gums so fevered and swollen that he would not allow anything else to touch them, so soothing is the cool, hard substance to them, while the water trickling slowly from the ice into a hot mouth becomes sowarmed before reaching the stomach that no fear of harm need arise from that source. I have used this with two children most successfully. My little girl was teething through the months of June, July, and August, and never had a wakeful night nor a ‘hot head,’ mainly, if not wholly, due to the fact that I kept her feet warm and her mouth cool.
Mother.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue III, 18 January 1896, Page 78
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182HINTS TO MOTHERS. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue III, 18 January 1896, Page 78
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