bathcoating

Updated: May 2, 2025

What is the best kind of apron for a mother, or for a nurse, to wear, while washing the infant? Flannel a good, thick, soft flannel, usually called bathcoating apron, made long and full, and which of course ought to be well dried every time before it is used. Perhaps you will kindly recapitulate, and give me further advice on the subject of the ablution of my babe.

Pye Henry Chavasse - Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children