Chapter I: Preface

For many years the call for a book on the mother and her child has come to us from patients, from the public, and now from our publishers--and this volume represents our efforts to supply this demand.

The larger part of the work was originally written by Dr. Lena K. Sadler, with certain chapters by Dr. William S. Sadler, but in the revision and re-arrangement of the manuscript so much work was done by each on the contributions of the other, that it was deemed best to bring the book out under joint authorship.

The book is divided into three principal parts: Part I, dealing with the experience of pregnancy from the beginning of expectancy to the convalescence of labor: Part II, dealing with the infant from its first day of life up to the weaning time; Part III, taking up the problems of the nursery from the weaning to the important period of adolescence.

The advice given in this work is that which we have tried out by experience--both as parents and physicians--and we pass it on to mothers, fathers, and nurses with the belief that it will be of help in their efforts at practical and scientific "child culture." We believe, also, that the expectant mother will be aided and encouraged in bearing the burdens which are common to motherhood by the advice and instruction offered.

While we have drawn from our own professional and personal experience in the preparation of this book, we have also drawn freely from the present-day literature dealing with the subjects treated, and desire to acknowledge our indebtedness to the various writers and authorities.

We now jointly send forth the volume on its mission, as a contribution toward lightening the task and inspiring the efforts of those mothers, nurses, and others who honor us by a perusal of its pages.

WILLIAM S. SADLER.

LENA K. SADLER.

_Chicago_, 1916.

CONTENTS

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PART I

THE MOTHER

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I The Expectant Mother 1
II Story of the Unborn Child 7
III Birthmarks and Prenatal Influence 14
IV The Hygiene of Pregnancy 21
V Complications of Pregnancy 35
VI Toxemia and Its Symptoms 47
VII Preparations for the Natal Day 53
VIII The Day of Labor 63
IX Twilight Sleep and Painless Labor 71
X Sunrise Slumber and Nitrous Oxid 84
XI The Convalescing Mother 93

PART II

THE BABY

XII Baby's Early Days 103
XIII The Nursery 114
XIV Why Babies Cry 123
XV The Nursing Mother and Her Babe 133
XVI The Bottle-Fed Baby 147
XVII Milk Sanitation 156
XVIII Home Modification of Milk 165
XIX The Feeding Problem 177
XX Baby's Bath and Toilet 190
XXI Baby's Clothing 202
XXII Fresh Air, Outings, and Sleep 213
XXIII Baby Hygiene 222
XXIV Growth and Development 232