When it comes to the question of providing the outfit to be used in your personal care, the matter of nightgowns and the like will be determined by your tastes and your means, rather than by specific needs. But six or eight nightgowns, a warm bed jacket if the weather is cool, a dressing-gown and a pair of slippers, will probably be enough to keep you fresh and comfortable, so far as these things are concerned, whether you are in a hospital or at home. But the preparation of necessary dressings and other articles for a home confinement is a different matter and you should learn the wishes of your doctor concerning them. If his instructions are not specific, you may find that the following lists will be helpful guides in assembling an equipment which will prove adequate to meet the ordinary requirements of a home confinement. Most of the articles listed, or satisfactory substitutes, are to be found in the average household, but they should be gotten together in one place so as to be ready at a moment’s notice. =For the Confinement and Your Own Care:= Plenty of sheets, pillow cases and towels. 4 sanitary belts. 1 piece rubber sheeting or oil cloth, 1 × 1½ yards. 1 piece rubber sheeting or oilcloth, 2 × 1½ yards. Two or three dozen safety-pins. Hot water bag with flannel cover. 1 two-quart fountain syringe. 1 douche pan. 1 bed-pan. 2 covered slop jars or covered pails. 3 basins, about 16, 14 and 12 inches in diameter. 2 stiff nail brushes, nail scissors and file or orange stick. 3 agate or enamel pitchers, holding at least 1 quart each. Medicine glass. Medicine dropper. 2 bent glass drinking tubes. 100 bichlorid tablets. 4 ounces chloroform. 4 ounces boric acid powder. 4 ounces green soap. 1 pint grain alcohol. Small jar of vaselin to be sterilized. Lard, olive oil, vaselin or albolene to oil the baby. Roll of adhesive plaster, 1 inch wide. One package of absorbent cotton. One clinical thermometer. In addition to these, a certain supply of sterile dressings will be needed. Complete outfits of such dressings, sterilized and ready for use, may be obtained from any one of a number of firms, of which your doctor will know; or they may be prepared by the nurse, or you yourself may prepare and sterilize the following: One dozen towels. Three sheets. Five or six dozen sanitary pads, about 10 inches long and 4 inches wide, made of gauze and cotton batting with a top layer of absorbent cotton. Two to four bed pads, about 30 inches square and 4 inches thick, made of gauze and cotton waste or cotton batting with a top layer of absorbent cotton; or of newspapers covered with muslin.