Chapter XV: Preparing for Motherhood

Menstruation--Irregular menstruation--Changes in the quantity of the flow--How the womb is held in place--Symptoms of menstruation--Menstruation should not be accompanied with pain--Don't give your daughters patent medicines, or "Female Regulators"--Take your daughter to the doctor--Leucorrhea in girls--Bathing when menstruating--Constipation and displaced wombs--Dress and menstruation--Absence of menstruation, or amenorrhea--Treatment of amenorrhea--Painful menstruation, or dysmenorrhea--Causes of dysmenorrhea--Treatment of dysmenorrhea--Sterility in the female--Conditions which affect the fertility of women--Climate, station in life, season of the year, age, the tendency to miscarry--Causes of sterility in the female--Displacement of womb--Diseases of womb, ovaries, or tubes--Malformations--Lacerations--Tumors--Leucorrhea--Physical debility--Obesity--Special poisons--"Knack of miscarrying"--Miscarriage--Cause of miscarriage--The course and symptoms of miscarriage--What to do when a miscarriage is threatened--Treatment of threatened miscarriage--Treatment of inevitable miscarriage--After treatment of miscarriage--The tendency to miscarriage ... PAGE 187

THE BABY

CHAPTER XVI

HYGIENE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE BABY

What to prepare for the coming baby--Care of the newly-born baby--The first bath--Dressing the cord--Treatment after the cord falls off--A pouting navel--Bathing baby--Clothing the baby--Baby's night clothes--Care of the eyes--Care of the mouth and first teeth--Care of the skin--Care of the genital organs--Amusing baby--Temperature in children--The teeth--The permanent teeth--Care of the teeth--Dentition--Treatment of teething--How to weigh the baby--Average weight of a male baby--Average weight of a female baby--Average height of a male child--The rate of growth of a child--Pulse rate in children--Infant records, why they should be kept--"Growing pains" ... PAGE 209

CHAPTER XVII

BABY'S FEEDING HABITS

Overfeeding baby--Intervals of feeding--How long should a baby stay at the breast--Vomiting between feedings--Regularity of feeding--Why is regularity of feeding important--A baby never vomits--What is the significance of so-called vomiting after feedings--Mother's milk that is unfit for baby--Fresh air for baby--Air baths for baby ... PAGE 223

CHAPTER XVIII

BABY'S GOOD AND BAD HABITS--FOOD FORMULAS

Baby's bed--The proper way to lay baby in bed--Baby should sleep by itself--How long should a baby sleep--Why a baby cries--The habitual crier--The habit of feeding baby every time it cries--The habit of walking the floor with baby every time it cries--Jouncing, or hobbling baby--Baby needs water to drink--The evil habit of kissing baby--Establishing toilet habits--Baby's comforter--What can be done to lessen the evil effects of the comforter habit--Beef juice--Beef juice by the cold process--Mutton broth--Mutton broth with cornstarch or arrowroot--Chicken, veal, and beef broths--Scraped beef or meat pulp--Junket or curds and whey--Whey--Barley water--Barley water gruel or barley jelly--Rice, wheat or oat water--Imperial Granum--Albumen water--Dried bread--Coddled egg ... PAGE 235

ARTIFICIAL FEEDING

CHAPTER XIX

ARTIFICIAL FEEDING

Elementary principles of milk modification--The secret of the efficiency of mothers' milk--Two important factors in successful artificial feeding--Every child is a problem in itself--Proprietary foods of little value as infant foods--Their value is in the milk added to them--The credit belongs to the cow--Difference between human and cow's milk--What "top-milk" feeding means--Utensils necessary for home modification of milk--Artificial feeding from birth to the twelfth month--How to measure "top-milk"--Easy bottle-feeding method--Condensed milk feeding--Objections to condensed milk feeding ... PAGE 249