After you sit up you will find it a good plan to occupy a low, comfortable chair while nursing the baby. Lean slightly forward and raise the knee upon which the baby rests by placing your foot on a stool; support his head in the curve of your arm and hold your breast from his face though slightly above it, just as you did while nursing him in bed. Nurse him in a quiet room where you will not be disturbed and where neither your breasts nor the baby will be exposed to drafts or the possibility of being chilled. Some mothers like to lie down while nursing the baby, for in addition to finding the position comfortable they are glad to have these regular, though short periods of rest. =Abdominal Binders and Bed-Exercises.= Most women are interested in this question as it concerns the restoration or preservation of the “figure.” The application of a snug binder for the first day or two after the baby comes, is a fairly common practice, for many women are very uncomfortable as a result of the sudden release of tension on their abdominal walls, a discomfort which a binder relieves. And during the first few days after the mother gets up and walks about she is sometimes given great comfort by a binder that is put on and snugly adjusted about her hips and the lower part of her abdomen, as she lies on her back. In addition to this, some doctors like to have the young mother wear a snug binder throughout her entire stay in bed, while others instruct their patients to take bed exercises. If the binder is your portion, you have nothing to do but wear it, for some one else must put it on you. But if bed exercises are in order, the following descriptions and pictures of the exercises taken by young mothers at the Long Island College Hospital may be helpful. The day upon which the exercises are started, the rate at which they are increased and the length of time during which they are continued, are, of course, entirely regulated by the doctor according to the strength and needs of each patient, for they are never continued to the point of fatigue. Quite evidently, then, there can be no definite directions for these exercises; one can give only a description of the positions and movements that are frequently used and the order in which they are adopted. The average mother who is recovering normally begins the chin-to-chest exercise from twelve to twenty-four hours after the baby’s birth. She lies flat on her back and raises her head until the chin rests upon her chest. (See Fig. 32.) By resting her hand upon the abdomen she feels for herself that the abdominal muscles contract as she lifts her head and accordingly realizes that she is actually exercising them. The movement is usually repeated twenty-five times, morning and evening, every day and continued as long as the patient is in bed. [Illustration: FIG. 32.