Maternity should have the largest and brightest room in the house.—It is her coronation room.—Simplicity of labor with healthy women.—Science has reduced risk to the minimum.—The exaltation of motherhood.—The rest after labor.—How to prepare a bed for the parturient.—Deliverance of mother from friends and visitors.—Sanitary pads.—Regular nursing.—Undisturbed sleep.—No binder necessary for mother.—The care of the breasts.—Diet.—Sitting up.—Six or eight weeks needed to regain normal condition.—The use of the douche.—Sore nipples.—The bearing of children not to be dreaded.—The joy of motherhood, 189-200 CHAPTER XVIII. CARE OF THE BABY. The more thoughtful treatment of babies than formerly.—The first attention that baby needs.—Its oil bath.—The care of the eyes.—The care of the placentic cord.—Baby’s first bath.—Its covering after the bath.—The basket.—Regularity in nursing.—Waking at night.—Rocking to sleep.—Quantity of food.—The appointments of the nursery.—The mother and the care of her own children.—To her children the mother should be the dearest creature in the world.—The babies born of love.—The babies born in bitterness.—The responsibilities and joys of motherhood, 201-212 CHAPTER XIX. THE MOTHER THE TEACHER. Food, clothing and restraint not the mother’s full duty to her children.—Teach them self-knowledge.—Mother should give honest answers to honest inquiries.—Ignorance leads to vice, and vice to ruin.—When shall children be taught physical truths.—How to teach little children physical truth.—Questions of sex should be the most sacred things of their knowledge.—How to teach the children in this sacred way.—Mothers should teach their boys as well as the girls.—How boys grow away from their mothers.—How mothers may win and hold their boys.—An honest mother’s reward, 213-228 CHAPTER XX. COMMON AILMENTS OF CHILDREN. Little ailments.—Nursing babies affected by condition of mother.—Sleep and health.—The baby’s food.—Why babies are restless when nursed from the right breast.—Children’s symptoms often more grave than the ailment.—Illustrations.—Fevers and teething.—Vomiting.—The cause of rash.—Pallid children.—Chafing.—Babies do not cry without cause.—Need of water and fresh air.—Sleeping in open air.—Relief in constipation.—Important suggestions, 229-236 CHAPTER XXI. GUARDING AGAINST SECRET VICE.