Four physical signs--Cessation of menses--Increase of size--Quickening--Fetal heart-beat--Positive indication of pregnancy--Pathological symptoms--Physicians offer no relief--A woman’s sad experience 37-41 CHAPTER IV. DISEASES OF PREGNANCY--INDIGESTION, NAUSEA, ETC. Indigestion a common ailment--Starch and fats the prime cause of dyspepsia--Children’s food is given to the pigs--Morning sickness--Is it a natural symptom?--Biliousness, what is it?--Enemas, their uses--Do not force the appetite--Tradition’s teachings--Will the fetus starve? 42-50 CHAPTER V. DISEASES OF PREGNANCY--CONSTIPATION. Most women suffer from constipation--Causes--Hot bread--White flour--Baking powders--Errors in dress--Cathartic drugs--Treatment--Wally and the Lockport entire wheat bread--Wheatlet--Cracked or rolled wheat--How Charlie was cured--Feast on fruits--Foods, laxative and constipating--Special exercises--Going without supper 51-73 CHAPTER VI. DISEASES OF PREGNANCY--HEADACHE, NEURALGIA, HEARTBURN. Headache--Tea and sick headache--Headache can be cured--Treatment--Heartburn--Flatulence--Hemorrhoids--Greedy appetite-Loss of appetite--Longings--Diarrhea--Neuralgia--Case from practice--Burning feet--Cramps--Swelling of extremities--Sleeplessness--Leucorrhea--Pruritus 74-89 CHAPTER VII. HYGIENE OF PREGNANCY--DRESS. Congenial surroundings--Overtaxed mothers--An old lady’s story--An every-day experience--Lucrative work--An author’s interesting testimony--Prophecy for the future--Dress and fashion--Common sense shoes--Can ladies stand in street cars?--Union under-garments--The chemiloon--The princess garment--Bates waist--The divided skirt--Equestrian tights--Dress and freedom for women--Dress in pregnancy--What corset can be worn--Fashion in deformity 90-110 CHAPTER VIII. HYGIENE IN PREGNANCY--BATHING. The water cure mania--The “ounce of prevention”--“A coat of mail”--The sitz-bath the very best bath for a pregnant woman--Fomentations--Save doctors’ visits--Hot water bottles--Cold compress--Foot and leg bath--The Turkish bath--Thermal bath at home--Queen of baths 111-123 CHAPTER IX. HYGIENE IN PREGNANCY--DIET. Avoid fats and sweets--The chemist’s theory--Proper food prevents pain in childbirth--Mrs. Rowbotham’s experience--Marvelously easy labor and rapid recovery--Interesting testimony from the wife of a Michigan judge--Mrs. ---- could get no doctor, and child born without pain!--She believes pain in childbirth unnecessary--Extraordinary experience!--Scientific theory accidentally proved--A boon to every woman--Bill of fare for every day in the week--Analysis of food 124-137