Hints to mothers for the management of health during the period of pregnancy and in the lying-in room : with an exposure of popular errors in connection with those subjects. : and hints upon nursing.

  • Bull, Thomas.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Hints to mothers for the management of health during the period of pregnancy and in the lying-in room : with an exposure of popular errors in connection with those subjects. : and hints upon nursing. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    afterwards grow into a voracious appetite, de- cidedly favour this opinion; for the severest and most trying cases of indigestion are by these means induced, the general health of the woman disturbed and more or less impaired, and through it the growth and vigour of the child, so that the means intended for its good become a source of direct injury. And, in the second place, Natm-e evidently points to another source from which she provides the demand, viz. in the suppression during pregnancy of the periodical discharge to which women are at other times subject; and which, it will be remembered, ceases for ever when the time for child-bearing has passed. Dietetic rules for the early months.—If the general health was good before pregnancy took place, it will not be interfered with in the majority of cases by this event. No essential difference should be made in the diet. Only let moderation and simplicity be observed, and the same kind of nourishment may be continued by which health was maintained previous to the occurrence of pregnancy. If heretofore the general health has been delicate and feeble, and, as a consequence of pregnane)-, becomes invigorated, the powers of digestion in- creasing, a larger supply of nourishment is de- manded. Caution, however, must be observed as to quality and quantity, or even here disorder mil quickly be produced. On the other hand, if the stomach, from sym-