Part II

. THE WIFE.

HINTS TO YOUNG WIVES 90-132

The wedding night--Should husband and wife sleep together or apart?--The most healthful bed--The dignity and propriety of the sexual instinct--The proper indulgence and the restraint of sexual desire--Marital relations, when they should be suspended--When they are painful--Barrenness, its causes and its cures--Advice to wives who desire children--The limitation of offspring--When it is proper--Justifiable means--Injurious means--The crime of abortion--The nature of conception--Signs of conception--How to retain the affections of a husband.

INHERITANCE 132-166

The varieties of inheritance--The legacy of beauty--The complexion--What physical qualities each parent bestows--The inheritance of fertility and longevity--Even deformities sometimes transmitted--How to have beautiful children--Talent and genius may be transmitted--The physical traits of fathers in daughters, and of mothers in sons--Examples--Influence of education on inherited qualities--Transmission of disease--Of mutilations--How to avoid inherited ill tendencies--The excess of women--How to have boys or girls at will--Twins and triplets.

PREGNANCY 167-218

Veneration of the pregnant woman--Signs of pregnancy--Quickening --Mental changes--Miscarriage, its causes, symptoms, and prevention--Mother's marks--What makes them?--How to avoid them--Education of the child in the womb--Are double pregnancies possible?--Instances of double children--Can a child cry in the womb?--Is it a son or a daughter?--Are there twins present?--The duration of pregnancy--How to calculate when the confinement will come--Care of health during pregnancy--The food, clothing, exercise, bathing, ventilation, and sleep--Effect on health of body and mind--Relations of husband and wife during pregnancy.

THE CONFINEMENT 219-242

Preparations for childbirth--The signs of approaching labor--The symptoms of actual labor--Attention is required during labor--To the mother--To the child--To have labor without pain--The risks of childbed--Weight and length of new-born children--The duration of labor--Stillborn children--Imprudence after childbirth--To preserve the form after childbirth.

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