The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-03-26
The Mothers Letter

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GAS one of your interested read
ers | noticed the other day in your
column that you couldn't see why
any women go to the hospital to
have babies. AS a woman soon to
have her third, | thought perhaps
/ could do no better with a few
minutes rest period than to amuse
myself in giving you a woman's
reasons for 50 doing. l know my
own doctor would have preferred
for me TO stay at home for both
other confinements, mostly for his
own convenience, as it is Is miles
to the hospital and only 2 to my
home.
'ABut 9 out Of 10 women don't
fear complications where hospital
facilities would be an advantage.
But once you've had your baby at
home, there you are, in the same
old bedr ON you occupy year in,
year out; from the next day on,
all the pc tty cares and problems Of
the home come to your bedside the
same as if you were on your feet,
and to add insult to injury, it costs
you within IS of what peace and
quiet in a hospital would cost, and
if you have hospital insurance, as
most Of US do nowadays, the half
price on maternity care makes a
hospital cheaper than staying at
home.
Personally, I'm looking for
ward to my third ordeal not be-
cause relish labor, but because
afterwards, like a good child re-
ceiving a candy, I'm to have my
s or 9 days vacation, the only one
most Of US mothers ever receive.
To be sure. shall miss the chill
dren, but it will be good for them
and me TO be briefly separated; |
shall perhaps be missed for once,
and | can read books for my own
pleasure rather than children's
stories. Over and above my own
personal considerations, my new
baby will get routined start that
would be improbable if not impos-
sible in busy household of other
children"
The Doctors Letter
II want to go on record as sub.
scribing to your recently expressed
opinion that nowadays more con-
fnements should be conducted at
home. ! have always felt that the
possibility Of cross-infection was
less in the home than in the hos
pital.
Il do not believe that the hospi-
tai offers any apparatus or other
facilities for safety that cannot
easily be provided at home. In my
experience, the mothers are more
comfortable in their own beds with
their own meals. They are not an
noyed by the noises and other in
conveniences of even the best con-
Quoted hospitals, to say nothing
Of the expense.
an recent number Of Hygeia
the average fee for a delivery in a
hospital was put down as between
SIS and $3.50. My average expense
to family is now, as it has been
for twenty years, in the neighbor-
hood of s25, and l frankly don't
see how most people can afford to
pay $3.50"
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
N. H. VI am a young mar
ried woman planning to have my
first baby but because my father
has psoriasis and also my hus-
bands sister has it, am wonder
ing if nay children will have it.
Answer-There is no evidence
that psoriasis is hereditary.
ty (4e-42) didn't get the neces-
sary two-thirds.
This time it's In the form Of an
ordinary congressional bill. which
can be passed by a simple major
.ty of both houses.
It doesn't matter that It's a
mere bill; not treaty. It's a fore
gone conclusion that. II 1t passes,
Canadas legislature promptly will
pass a corresponding one. That1l
make the transaction as effective
as a treaty would. It may be an
evasion, but 1t will turn the trick.
The "antis" viii roar like sixty.