From time to time the nurse explains to the patient, as much as she can, about pregnancy and the changes that accompany it and the reasons for the advice that is given, in order to secure her intelligent co-operation. Experience has taught that it is not enough to advise the patient to do thus-and-so because the doctor thinks best. But if she understands that examination of her urine, for example, may disclose conditions that can be cured, but which if neglected may cause headaches, or convulsions, she is much more likely to provide a specimen for examination than if she is asked for one without explanation. The care of each patient is a tactful adjustment of the prescribed routine to the condition, habits and temperament of that patient. It is carried on through a combination of visits which the nurse makes to the patient’s home and visits which the patient makes to the nurse at the Maternity Centre in her district. The advantages of this combination of visits are, that the nurse first knows the patient in her own home, and can help to plan for the desired care with the conditions of this home in mind, and perhaps evolve from the patient’s simple belongings the equipment needed for her care; also that at the Centre it is possible to assemble the patients and give them a certain amount of informal group instruction. There is at each Centre a doll model of a baby; a model of a baby’s bed (Fig. 144), showing that a box or a basket may be used with entire satisfaction; a model of the mother’s bed, prepared for delivery at home and protected with newspaper pads; a complete layette (Fig. 145) to show the mothers how simple such an outfit can and should be; patterns for making each garment and some one to help the women to make them; a breast tray (Fig. 146) and a baby’s toilet tray (Fig. 147), so complete and yet so simple that no woman with a few chipped or cracked cups to spare need be dismayed. [Illustration: FIG. 144.—Separate bed for the baby improvised from a market basket. (By courtesy of the Maternity Centre Association.) ]