What a Young Wife Ought to Know

Name: What a Young Wife Ought to Know
Author: Drake, Emma F. Angell (Emma Frances Angell)

Drake, Emma F. Angell (Emma Frances Angell)

Infants -- Care; Marriage; Women -- Health and hygiene

The alarming prevalence of this hideous sin.—How daughters
    are initiated.—How expectant mothers appeal to reputable
    physicians.—Young women should be taught to associate the idea
    of marriage with motherhood.—Destruction of own health and life
    go hand in hand with prenatal murder.—Effect of such attempts
    upon the physical life and character.—Life from the moment of
    conception.—The injustice and cruel wrongs inflicted upon wives
    by uncontrolled passions of husbands.—Obligation of motherhood
    should be recognized.—Its blessings.—The duty of the physician
    as educator of public sentiment,                             123-134

                               CHAPTER XI.

                 THE MORAL RESPONSIBILITY OF PARENTS IN
                                HEREDITY.

    The duty of the present to future generations.—Darwin on
    heredity.—Nature inexorable.—The mother’s investment of
    moulding power.—The father’s important part in the transmission
    of heredity.—The parents workers together with God.—Parents
    must reap what they sow.—The law and the gospel of heredity
    contrasted.—The children of inebriates and others.—Lessons
    from reformatory institutions.—The outcast Margaret.—The
    mother of Samson.—How a child became an embodiment of “The
    Lady of the Lake.”—The woman who desired to be the mother of
    governors.—Importance of this study,                         135-145

                              CHAPTER XII.

                         AILMENTS OF PREGNANCY.

    Pregnancy not an unnatural but a normal state.—Tendency to
    neglect hygienic rules.—Morning sickness.—How to correct
    it.—Important questions of diet.—Displaced uterus as cause
    of nausea.—Mental states.—Companionship.—Various gastric
    troubles.—Insomnia.—Hysteria.—Constipation and how to correct
    it.—Longings.—Self-control.—With proper care, as a rule all
    goes well,                                                   147-154

                              CHAPTER XIII.

                        DEVELOPMENT OF THE FŒTUS.

    Minuteness of the germ of human life.—The embryo cell and
    its store of food.—Its journey to the uterus.—Meeting the
    spermatozoön, conception occurs.—The changes which take place
    in the uterus.—Life is present the moment conception takes
    place.—The mysterious development of the embryo.—The sin of
    tampering with the work of the infinite.—The various changes in
    the development of the embryo and fœtus set forth.—The changes
    that occur each month.—Parenthood the benediction of husband
    and wife,                                                    155-162

                              CHAPTER XIV.

                            BABY’S WARDROBE.

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What a Young Wife Ought to Know

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