Medicine: How Baby Grows

Chicago's Lying-in Hospital proudly announced the birth of its bouncingest baby. Delivered last week, after prolonged labor, and published by the hospital's Mothers' Aid organization, it is a new and radically revised edition of a baby record book, Our Baby's First Seven Years, Available in four bindings of varying luxe ($2.98 to $5.98), it has proved its appeal in 26 previous printings (more than 1,500,000 copies), from which profits of $300,000 have been plowed back into maternity research. Going far beyond the skeletal birth, height, weight and teething records of conventional baby books, the volume was designed originally by an obstetrician,...