CHAPTER X. HYGIENE IN PREGNANCY--EXERCISE. Motion a law of nature--Nest building--Home labor delights the heart--Contact with the earth a “cure-all”--Waist breathing--Educate the muscles--Massage--Muscle beater--Military position--Exercises in pregnancy--Climbing stairs during gestation--Rules for climbing stairs and hills--Delsarte 138-149 CHAPTER XI. CHASTITY IN THE MARRIAGE RELATION. Rights of children--Popular theories--Social evil--Who are the prostitutes?--Touching experience--Lessons for husbands--Theory of continence--A New Testament Lesson--Continence in pregnancy--Its influence upon pain at parturition--Influence upon offspring--Men reverence the maternal in woman--Parenthood and progress--Motherhood, central fact in human life 150-162 CHAPTER XII. VENTILATION--REST. A pregnant woman breathes for two--Open fire places in sleeping rooms--Charcoal pit easily constructed--Fresh air in bedrooms--Drafts--Cold air not pure air--The nose a sentinel--Unslaked lime and charcoal--Interesting experiments--A daily siesta needed--How one mother slept--Recapitulation--Mrs. Stanton’s experience--A girl is as good as a boy 163-173 CHAPTER XIII. PARTURITION. What are labor pains?--Stages of labor--Bag of waters--Necessary preparations--Directions for making the bed--Management during the first stage--Meddlesome midwifery--Cutting the cord--A new heresy--No child should be washed as soon as it is born--Delivery of the after-birth--Should the bandage be applied?--Castor oil--Rest, the best remedy 174-182 CHAPTER XIV. DYSTOCIA. Difficult labor--Caustic treatment a frequent cause--Hot sitz-bath overcomes rigidity--A very remarkable case--Notes from practice--Ergot and cohosh--Their poisonous effects--Instruments--Temptation of physicians--Women can make instruments known in tradition only 183-189 CHAPTER XV. POST PARTUM DISEASES. Daily bath--Compress--Sitz-bath--Very best food--Cases in Home of the Friendless--No need of milk fever--Abscess of the breast--Excoriated nipples--Insufficient milk--Drink new or hot milk--Do not use ale or beer--Excessive flow of milk--After-pains--The lochia--Hemorrhage--Childbed fever--Causes to be avoided--Dr. Playfair’s opinion--Treatment must be prompt 190-203 CHAPTER XVI. INFANTS, THEIR CARE AT BIRTH AND DURING EARLY INFANCY. A new being--Need of rest--An oil bath--Dressing the navel--Clothing--Useful suggestions--Habits of cleanliness can be secured--Nursing--Mother’s milk the natural food--Best artificial food--Causes of mortality in hand-fed children--Artificial human milk--Analysis of milk--Care of the bottle--Time of weaning--Meat-fed children 204-216