Category: Health & Medicine
The Positive Signs--The Probable Signs--The Presumptive Signs: The Cessation of Menstruation; Changes in the Breasts; Morning Sickness; Disturbances in Urination--The Duration of Pregnancy--The Estimation of the Date of Confinement--Prolonged Pregnancy.
The Cause of Labor--The Course of Labor--The Stage of Dilatation--The Stage of Expulsion--The Placental Stage--The Effect of Labor upon the Child--Meddling--Justifiable Interven...
9. Chapter 9Engaging the Nurse--Desirable Qualities in the Nurse--Preliminary Visits of the Nurse--The Necessary Supplies for Confinement--The Baby's Outfit--Sterilization--The Choice and A...
12. Chapter 12When the obstetrician pays his final visit the mother usually has ready a number of questions, most of which anticipate difficulties in the care of the baby. At that time, howev...
4. Chapter 4The Food-stuffs: Water; Mineral Material; Protein; Carbohydrate; Fat-- What We Do to Our Food--How Much Food Is Needed During Pregnancy?-- The Importance of Liquid Nourishment--...
11. Chapter 11The Changes in the Uterus--The Lochia--The Return of Menstruation-- Other Restorative Changes: The Loss in Weight; The Abdominal Wall; The Pelvic Floor--The Care of the Patient:...
8. Chapter 8We have learned that forty weeks are required for the full development of the human embryo, but this fact carries no assurance that pregnancy will last so long; in reality, it m...
2. Chapter 2Pregnancy, besides changing the external form of the body, causes sensations--as for example those due to fetal movements--which are so distinctive that they cannot escape notic...
3. Chapter 3The new human being begins existence, as I have shown, as soon as the ovum is fertilized, though at that moment it consists merely of a solitary cell formed by the union of the...
5. Chapter 5If we stop to think it is only too apparent that the human body is a machine. We seize energy in one form and convert it into another, just as truly as do the windmill, the loco...
7. Chapter 7Most of the ailments to which prospective mothers are liable are merely the natural manifestations of pregnancy, exaggerated to such an extent as to cause inconvenience and disc...
6. Chapter 6Besides the hygienic measures described in the preceding chapter, whose observance should be recognized as more or less obligatory, there are more general questions of conduct,...
1. Chapter 1The Positive Signs--The Probable Signs--The Presumptive Signs: The Cessation of Menstruation; Changes in the Breasts; Morning Sickness; Disturbances in Urination--The Duration o...