This excellent little pamphlet is now brought out in its eleventh edition and remains what it has always been, a well written and very useful aid to mothers who are about to have their first baby. The neonatal and antenatal paediatric advice is up-todate in conception and description, and it might well be distributed to all mothers by a benevolent Welfare State. Your Baby-and You. By WINIFRED DE KOK. (Pp. 221; illustrated. 2s. 6d.) Lon,don: Pan Books. 1957. This small paper-covered book, by a medical grandmother sets out to inform a young expectant mother, living in this country, of what might be called the routine happenings she may anticipate as regards the course of pregnancy and labour, antenatal care, care in hospital, and postnatal care, as well as the normal development and behaviour of her infant. In addition, it provides practical advice on measures needed for her own health and on infant and child care. A considerable part of the book is factual, and the teaching provided would meet with the approval of most paediatricians, in general if not in every detail, since opinions inevitably differ. In the reviewer's opinion it is a book which would be appreciated by very many young women experiencing their first pregnancy.