Salt Lake Telegram | 1950-11-01 | Page 23 | Your Baby and Mine

I YOUR BABY AND MINE Parents Baby Now Get Acquainted at Hospital By I 1 Myrtle lc I Meyer r Eldred The term rooming in has become increasingly familiar to the young mother She has read about it and she may be fortunate fortunate fortunate fortu fortu- nate enough to have ha one of the thc hospitals in her own city establish establish establish lish it in their maternity wards Rooming-in Rooming is the imitation of an old age-old practice that of keeping the new baby with its mother When almost all babies were born in the home the nurse or wife mid-wife or taker care-taker laid the baby by the mother as soon as it was born and there it stayed being warmed and loved and fed as nature directed When doctors felt that hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital service gave the mother the greatest chance for good maternity maternity maternity ma ma- care most babies were born in one But the increasing demands made upon nursing service seemed to argue that babies all in one room with one or two nurses in attendance was the most economical and practical cal method of caring for them We Ve have ha completed a circle and now while babies are stillborn still stillborn stillborn born preferentially in hospitals they are treated as babies used to be bc treated at home brought to their mothers after birth kept in her room close to her bed and available at any moment moment moment mo mo- ment to be picked up and cared for as needed With this practice of rooming- rooming in the new father makes a very prompt acquaintance with his offspring instead of catching only unsatisfactory glimpses of him through a nursery window He helps the mother care for forthe forthe the thc baby He feels a proprietary interest in him and becomes familiar with him He is not fearful nor is the mother mother- on the day they dress the baby and take him home with them Our leaflet No 5 The First Six Weeks may be had by sending a stamped self ad dressed envelope with your re request request request re- re quest to Myrtle Meyer eyer Eldred in care of The Tribune-Telegram Tribune Home Service Bureau