Show Your Yo Baby's Healt By Y DR MORRIS FISHBEIN FISHBEIN T Editor Journal of the American tedi l Medical 1 Association and of ot Hygeia the Health Magazine 1 J Some babies arc aro born at home through their parents parents' choice and some because there thero simply isn't time for the mother to get to the hospital In most cases duration of childbirth childbirth childbirth child child- birth for a first baby Is b 16 and 18 hours and for tor later babies between eight and 10 hours There is no rio reason to be panic panic- stricken or overexcited when the tho first symptoms appear Just as soon as ns the prospective mother knows that childbirth Isto Isto is isto to occur in the home a kettle of ot water should be set to boll boIl and a small pair of ot scissors and two pieces of tape should be dropped into the water These are necessary necessary necessary sary to take care of ot the cord of ot the baby The best available room should be bo chosen for the mother and should be bo kept warm because birth in a warm room is much safer for both mother and baby If It the baby is born before the tho doctor or midwife comes It should bo ho wrapped I Immediately In a a. w warm rm clean towel and kept warm Among the s saddest tragedies to occur among human beings Is death of ot a a. mother from infection during childbirth This hb disease Is scientifically called puerperal puerperal's s 's septicemia or sepsis It has disturbed disturbed disturbed dis dis- dis- dis the minds of ot medical men for years ears There Is no doubt that proper caro care of ot the mother before the baby is born and observance of ot strict cleanliness during child childbirth birth would greatly lower the In Incidence Incidence In- In of such infection Even t today day however conditions conditions conditions condi condi- associated with childbirth are far from satisfactory Women in childbirth whose babies are arc cared for by Ignorant or careless midwives or are born under f conditions are more likely to suffer suffer suffer suf suf- fer from such Infection than those thosa attended in hospitals devoted particularly particularly particularly par par- to the care caro of ot childbirth or in clean rooms of ot good homes There is s a common superstition that moro more babies are born at night than in day time lime Actual Investigation however shows that births vary little from hour to hour in the tho course of ot a da day O Of 1089 1059 babies born In Honolulu 43 were born during the day and during the night Of 1000 babies born at the Chicago Lying- Lying in hospital were born during the day and nd at night The largest number of births during any single hour occurred between 3 and andI 4 I o'clock In the morning but that number was only a few more than were born from 9 to 10 o'clock at night and from 8 to 9 o'clock in the morning |