Show baby s health on mother four babies are being born every minute somewhere in this land every minute of the day every day of tile the year four mothers bring new life to this nation these mothers are heirs of the greatest medical skill in tile the his tory of science because baby doctor is more than the family physician he is a tra traine inci inc i specialist prepared to chart the 01 AF 4 V ap w A a SWE D healthy babies are happy babies and healthy An gothers pothers others can hao ha o 0 healthy babies journey of a baby into the wo jd and deliver a hearty child to a wealtny mother maxine davis nationally known authority tells the modern modem mother what she ought to do to insure her babas chances and to safe garil her own favire health choose a clopto known to b well trained ard she advises you may not find a specialist in gynecology but do not fail to ascertain the education qualifications and experience of the physician you select that is important because not every graduate of a grade A medica college has had sufficient 1 izad acl schooling oling an aej 1 experience in this field lone the council of medical education and hospitals of the ame american Af medical edical association at its 1937 convention reported that the teaching ot of this field of medical care is at a lower level than that ol of tile the other major clinical departments and that very few schools offer to their students sufficient practical experience under competent supervision consequently an inadequately trained young oung doctor who has just hung out his shingle begins to practice at a moment when speed and judgment are vital he may have only a foggy memory of a lechtur and a textbook approved hospital not only must you exercise ca caution ution in your sele selection cLion of a doctor miss davis warns but you must also be careful about the hospital make sure it is list among those approved by the american college of surgeons or 01 by the american ia medical edical assoria tion for not all hospitals are salis satisfactory is those mothers who cannot ai after a doctor and who are far from a good maternity center have to wait until the rest of us C ome come to help them fortunately the government at last has recognized their plight and appropriated through the social security act of 1935 for maternal and infant care to be administered by the childrens bureau and this sum is to be ba matched by tile the states this is only a drop in the bucket however and is wholly ina inadequate 1 to solve the vital problem of unskilled assist ance the childrens bureau is acutely aware of this and has this year approved plans to provide to a ver very y limited extent complete compete medical and dursin nursing services but it is necessary for congress to do more about babies than kissing them at election time the author gives the prospective mother a list of wise bonts Don ts to consider in anticipating the birth of her baby 1 dont care place ace yourself under watchful care during the entire prenatal period 2 dont choose just any doctor if there is no specialist in your town be very sure t that hat the doctor you select knows his bus iness A very simple way to get a good physician is to find out who serves the doctors wives in your community 3 dont go to the extreme of either modern or old fashioned techniques there is a happy medium and you should let your doctor decide what is best for you 4 dont pay any attention to old wives tales they have come down to us from the time when i women were still in ill sackcloth and ashes for the sin of eve 5 dont listen to what your mother or the neighbors say put your faith in your doctor and do exactly what he tells you to 6 dont be afraid the average baby is born under natural normal conditions and yours probably will be too you are going to have your baby safely and with all the advantages of modem science dont impose too much on science but take every advantage of it |