ed. These are needed for the nipples,
baby's eyes, etc.

[Illustration: Fig. 5. Breast Binder]

4. _Cotton pledgets._ These are cotton balls, made as you would a
light biscuit with the twist of the cotton to hold it in shape. They
should be about the size of the bottom of a teacup. These are thrown
in a couple of pillow slips and wrapped and marked.

5. _The Bobbin._ Cut the bobbin or tape into four nine-inch lengths
and wrap and mark.

6. The _tooth picks_ are left in the original package and do not
require sterilization.

7. _Sterilization._ Before steaming and baking, wrap each bundle in
another wrapping of cloth and pin again securely. Mark each package
plainly in large letters or initials. These packages may be sent to
the hospital for sterilization in the autoclave or they may be
steamed for one hour in the large wash boiler, by placing them loosely
into a hammock-like arrangement made by suspending a firm piece of
muslin from one handle of the boiler to the other. The center of the
hammock should come to within five inches of the bottom of the boiler
which contains three inches of boiling water. The cover of the boiler
is now securely weighed down and the water boils hard for one hour, at
the end of which time they are removed and placed in a warm oven to
dry out. The outer wrapping may be slightly tinged with brown by this
baking. After a thorough drying they are allowed to remain in the same
wrappings into which they were first placed and put away in a clean
drawer awaiting the "Natal Day."

REQUISITES FOR THE HOSPITAL

Each hospital has its own methods and regulations for caring for
obstetrical patients and it is well for the expectant mother to visit
the obstetrical section, the delivery-room and the baby's room, that
she may personally know more about the place where she is to spend
from ten days to two weeks. Here she may ascertain from the
superintendent just what she will need to bring for the baby. Many of
the hospitals furnish all the clothes needed for the baby while in the
hospital; in such instances, the hospital also launders them. Other
hospitals require the baby's clothes to be brought in, in which case
the mother looks after the laundry. The mother always takes her toilet
articles, a warm bed jacket with long sleeves, several night dresses
and a large loose kimono or wrapper to wear to the roof garden or
porch in the wheel chair. Warm bedroom slippers and a scarf for the
head complete