One clinical thermometer.
In addition to these, a certain supply of sterile dressings will be needed. Complete outfits of such dressings, sterilized and ready for use, may be obtained from any one of a number of firms, of which your doctor will know; or they may be prepared by the nurse, or you yourself may prepare and sterilize the following:
One dozen towels.
Three sheets. Five or six dozen sanitary pads, about 10 inches long and 4 inches wide, made of gauze and cotton batting with a top layer of absorbent cotton.
Two to four bed pads, about 30 inches square and 4 inches thick, made of gauze and cotton waste or cotton batting with a top layer of absorbent cotton; or of newspapers covered with muslin.
One pair of leggings made of canton- or outing-flannel, either loose fitting hose reaching to the thighs or a yard square folded diagonally and stitched on one side. See Fig. [16]. Five or six dozen gauze sponges, made by folding pieces of gauze 18 inches square into small pads with all raw edges inside.
Two or three dozen gauze squares, 4 inches square.
Four or five dozen cotton pledgets, or wads of absorbent cotton about the size of an egg with the edges drawn together between thumb and finger and twisted into a spiral.
Six pieces of bobbin or narrow tape, 9 inches long, to tie the baby’s cord.
