The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-02
Your Health
 By Dr. William Brady

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 THE MOUSE IN THE RAT CAGE
 This is the second in a series of talks with the young man who is going to have a baby.
 Now don't take that as a face tious remark. It is not an attempt to be humorous. say the hus- band who is a man should be as deeply concerned in every little de- tail of the business as is the wife when there is baby on order or even contemplated.
 If some husbands remain aloof and leave all that stuff to the ex- pectant mother alone--AND to the old woman and other unqualified instructors or adviSers--it is only be- cause there is too much rat in their makeup and character
 The sheer rattineSs of an appal- lingly large number of young men in this country in respect to having baby is apparent in the unhuman way they desert wife and baby maybe I'm Siandering the rat fam fly. but unhuman is the only print able term for the deserter
 If husband is all man, he will quite naturally take as much inter- est in every detail of preparation for maternity as his wife does. He will study whatever his wife studies and he will go with her to the doc tor for whatever prenatal care, in- Struction or advice the doctor gives and see to 1t that the advice is needed and followed. There is nothing a woman should know about the baby business that her husband should not know as well If he is real man. In the booklet Preparing for Maternity for copy send ten cents and preaddressed stamped envelope) there are chap ters on the eXpectant fathers diet again no fooling, but straight health and nutrition. In the Bra dy Baby Book" (copy inclosed with other booklet if you send ten cents additionaD there are no chapters epressly for the father - but the whole booklet isintended as much for the guidance of the baby's fath- CT as it is for the mother. If the baby's father is all man, he will take as much interest in the book let or in any instruction on the care and feeding of infants as the moth- CT GoeS
 There are lot of young men who are unquestionably ratty in nature and character, but by no means so many as one might infer from an occasional look at tine specimens in the corridor or wait ing-room of the shady hospital or lying-in institution. Some of the stooges you see in the cage there are just meek little wishywashy creatureS-mice who are not quite man euough to reject the stooge role and remain with their wives during delivery. They are so ignor- ant of everything that pretains. to i the bbay business - thanks to the ladylike education they have had so far-that the people who run the hospital or lying-in place and pre- fer to keep their ways dark find it easy to push them around and make boobs of them.
 A man must first know his way about, if he means to play mans part in this baby business. So it is up to the eXpectant father to study everything his wife studies about it.