Remarks: (Treatment, advice, change in occupation, housing, etc.) MATERNITY RECORD The Maternity Record upon which a complete history of each case is recorded is divided into four parts, the first section for the social data about the patient, the second for other pregnancies and observation of patient during this pregnancy, the third records delivery and postpartum care, the fourth, post-natal care. (See insert for form.) LEAFLET OF INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO PATIENTS ADVICE FOR MOTHERS Motherhood is natural and normal. If you do as the doctor and nurse ask you to, you have no reason to worry about having your baby. _DIET_ Eat the food you are used to. Do not eat what you know gives you indigestion. Do not eat too much at any one meal. Drink 8 glasses of water every day. Drink all the milk you can. Do not drink any beer, whiskey, wine or other alcohol. These hurt the kidneys and thus may poison the baby. Eat meat, meat-soup or eggs and drink tea or coffee only once a day. _SLEEP_ At least 8 hours every night with windows open. _EXERCISE_ Do your regular house work, but lie down several times a day, if only for five minutes. If possible take a walk out of doors. Fresh air is good for your baby. If you cannot get out, keep the windows open while you work indoors. Do not do heavy work; it will hurt your baby. _BATHING_ Wash all over every day with warm (not hot) water, but do not get into a tub after the seventh month. _GARTERS_ Do not wear round garters or any tight bands. The nurse will show you how to make suspender garters. _CONSTIPATION_ If you are constipated, drink a cup of coffee (no cream or sugar) before breakfast, hot milk (not boiled) with breakfast, go to the toilet at the same time every day (after breakfast best). During the day eat coarse bread, green vegetables, stewed fruit, drink no tea, but all the water you can, at least 8 glasses, hot or cold. Cook 2 tablespoonfuls of senna leaves with a pound of prunes and eat four to six prunes every day. If you have hemorrhoids (piles) hold a cold compress to anus for five minutes after bowels move and do not let yourself get constipated. Never take any cathartics unless your doctor, midwife, or nurse tells you to. _IMPORTANT_ Do not have any sexual intercourse after the 8th month. If you have severe headache, vomiting, spots before your eyes, if your face, hands or feet swell, let your hospital, doctor or midwife and nurse know at once. Labor begins with pains in back or abdomen; with bleeding or watery discharge. If you have any labor pains or bleeding before the time you expect your baby, go to bed and send word to your hospital, doctor or midwife and nurse at once.