The bath should be given in a warm room. This is a matter that should receive more consideration than has been given it. Nurses do not as a rule attach much importance to this duty, while in reality it is a most important one. I have seen trained nurses make ready to give baby its first bath in rooms, during the night, that were not heated adequately. I am convinced that many babies have been victims of this careless habit to the extent of grafting on them the tendency to catarrhal colds and bronchitis because of undue exposure at this critical period. If one will remember that a baby has just been removed from an environment where the temperature was suitable and constant, to one in which it needs a large degree of artificial heat until such time as it may become accustomed to the change, one may appreciate the risk taken in exposing the child for even a short time. The mother should therefore warn the nurse not to undertake the baby's first bath until the temperature and other conditions are favorable. Many nurses and other individuals have the impression, without knowing why, that the baby should be cleansed and bathed immediately after birth. This is not at all necessary. If the conditions are not favorable, it would be far better to wrap the baby snugly in a warm blanket--first having put a diaper on--and place it in its crib with a hot water bottle near it and defer the bathing until the following forenoon. By that time the baby will be adapted to its new surroundings; its lungs will have become accustomed to the air which it is breathing for the first time; the mother will have been rendered comfortable; in other words, the conditions and the environment will be favorable for the baby and for a better performance of the duty.