The Mother and her Child, by William S. Sadler, M. D. and Lena K. Sadler, M. D

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Author

Sadler, Lena K. (Lena Kellogg), 1875-

Title

The Mother and Her Child

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Produced by Audrey Longhurst, Hillie Plantinga and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

RJ: Medicine: Pediatrics

Subject

Infants -- Care

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20817

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20817

Release Date

March 14, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Transcriber's Notes
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.THE MOTHER
6. 6.THE MOTHER AND HER CHILD
7. 7.THE MOTHER
8. 8.THE EXPECTANT MOTHER — MOTHERHOOD THE HIGHEST CALLING — MOTHERCRAFT PREPARATION — EARLY MEDICAL SUPERVISION — THE RESENTFUL MOTHER — EARLY SIGNS OF PREGNANCY — PROBABLE DATE OF DELIVERY
9. 9.STORY OF THE UNBORN CHILD — EMBRYOLOGICAL IGNORANCE — THE STREAM OF LIFE — THE PROCESS OF FERTILIZATION — THE FIRST WEEKS OF LIFE — LATER EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT — AT THE END OF THREE MONTHS — LAST WEEKS OF PREGNANCY
10. 10.BIRTHMARKS AND PRENATAL INFLUENCE — HEREDITARY TRAITS — MATERNAL IMPRESSIONS — EUGENIC SUPERSTITION — CAUSES OF BIRTHMARKS — ROLE OF THE PLACENTA — SUGGESTION AND HEREDITY
11. 11.THE HYGIENE OF PREGNANCY — EARLY PLANNING — THE CLOTHING — DIET — WATER DRINKING — EXERCISE — REST — FRESH AIR — BATHING — THE TEETH — DIRECTIONS FOR SAVING URINE SPECIMENS — THE BOWELS — BRAN BREAD RECIPES — CARE OF THE BREASTS — THE MENTAL STATE
12. 12.COMPLICATIONS OF PREGNANCY — MORNING SICKNESS — HEARTBURN — IRRITABILITY OF THE BLADDER — LEUCORRHEA — THREATENED ABORTION — SUDDEN ABDOMINAL PAIN — MISCARRIAGE — CRAVINGS — CONSTIPATION — HEMORRHOIDS — VARICOSE VEINS — CRAMPS — SWELLINGS — GOITRE — BACKACHE — PERNICIOUS VOMITING — INSOMNIA — HEADACHE — HIGH BLOOD-PRESSURE
13. 13.TOXEMIA AND ITS SYMPTOMS — TOXIC SYMPTOMS — CONVULSIONS OF PREGNANCY — CARDINAL SYMPTOMS OF TOXICITY — HIGH BLOOD-PRESSURE — ECLAMPSIA PREVENTED
14. 14.PREPARATIONS FOR THE NATAL DAY — THE FINAL WEEKS — SELECTION OF THE HOME — SANITARY PREMISES — ENGAGING THE DOCTOR — THE PLACE OF CONFINEMENT — THE NURSE — PREPARATIONS FOR A HOME DELIVERY — THE PREPARATION OF THE SUPPLIES — REQUISITES FOR THE HOSPITAL — BABY'S NECESSITIES — THE CONFINEMENT ROOM — THE BED
15. 15.THE DAY OF LABOR — THE TIME OF WAITING — FIRST SYMPTOMS OF LABOR — THE PRELIMINARY BATH — THE PROGRESS OF LABOR — FALSE LABOR PAINS — WHAT TO DO IN THE ABSENCE OF A DOCTOR — CARE OF THE MOTHER — CARE OF THE BABY
16. 16.TWILIGHT SLEEP AND PAINLESS LABOR — THE PAIN OF LABOR — PREPARATION FOR LABOR — WHAT IS TWILIGHT SLEEP? — TECHNIC OF "TWILIGHT SLEEP" — THE CLAIMS OF "TWILIGHT SLEEP" — DANGERS OF TWILIGHT SLEEP — CONCLUSIONS REGARDING TWILIGHT SLEEP
17. 17.SUNRISE SLUMBER AND NITROUS OXID — OBSTETRIC FEAR — NITROUS OXID—"LAUGHING GAS" — ANALGESIA VS. ANESTHESIA — EFFECTS OF NITROUS OXID — METHOD OF ADMINISTRATION — CHLOROFORM AND ETHER — CONCLUSIONS
18. 18.THE CONVALESCING MOTHER — THE NURSE — REST AND EXERCISE — AFTER PAINS — THE TEMPERATURE — THE TOILET OF THE VULVA — URINATION — THE LOCHIA — THE ABDOMINAL BINDER — THE BOWELS — CARE OF THE NIPPLES — THE DIET — GETTING UP — COMPLICATIONS
19. 19.THE BABY
20. 20.THE BABY
21. 21.BABY'S EARLY DAYS — MODERN METHODS — THE HEAD — CHEST, ABDOMEN, AND LEGS — PULSE AND RESPIRATION — THE WEIGHT — THE SKIN — THE CORD DRESSING — THE EYES — THE FIRST OIL BATH — THE FIRST CLOTHING — BABY'S FIRST NAP — PUTTING TO THE BREAST — THE URINE — GENITALS OF THE MALE CHILD — POST-OPERATIVE CARE OF CIRCUMCISION — CARE OF THE FEMALE GENITALS — HANDLING THE BABY — THE EARLY BATHS — REGARDING SOAP — CARE OF THE UMBILICUS — BIRTH REGISTRATION
22. 22.THE NURSERY — THE SEPARATE NURSERY — NURSERY EQUIPMENT — BABY'S BED — THE CRIB — THE SLEEPING BLANKET — NURSERY HEATING AND VENTILATION — BABY'S CORNER IN MOTHER'S ROOM — CRIB SUBSTITUTES — EXTRA HEAT TO THE CRIB — LIGHTING BABY'S ROOM — FRESH AIR — THE BATH EQUIPMENT — BATH TEMPERATURES — NURSERY CLEANLINESS
23. 23.WHY BABIES CRY — NORMAL HEALTHY CRYING — THE BIRTH CRY — ABNORMAL CRYING — THE HUNGER CRY — THE CRY OF THIRST — THE FRETFUL CRY — THE PAIN CRY — HABIT CRYING — THE TEMPER CRY — THE SPOILED BABY — THE CRY OF SERIOUS ILLNESS — THE COLICKY CRY — COLIC IN THE BREAST-FED — COLIC IN BOTTLE-FED BABIES — COLIC AND CHILLINESS — THE TREATMENT OF COLIC — BABY CRIES BECAUSE:
24. 24.THE NURSING MOTHER AND HER BABE — HYGIENE OF NURSING MOTHERS — DIET OF THE NURSING MOTHER — OBJECTIONABLE FOODS — CAKED BREASTS — SORE NIPPLES — CONSTITUENTS OF MOTHER'S MILK — THE TIME OF THE FIRST FEEDING — WATER DRINKING — REGULARITY IN FEEDING — POSITION OF MOTHER DURING THE NURSING — NURSING WHEN ANGRY AND OVERHEATED — THE STOOLS — SYMPTOMS OF SUCCESSFUL NURSING — EARMARKS OF UNSUCCESSFUL NURSING — AIDS TO THE MILK SUPPLY — WHEN THE BABY SHOULD NOT BE NURSED — THE WET NURSE
25. 25.THE BOTTLE-FED BABY — THE HOURLY SCHEDULE — QUANTITY OF FOOD — REFRIGERATOR NECESSITY — HOMEMADE ICE BOX — PREPARING THE BOTTLE — POSITION DURING FEEDING — TIME ALLOWANCE FOR ONE FEEDING — AFTER THE FEED — INTERVALS BETWEEN MEALS — ADDITIONAL FOODS — FOOD FOR THE TRAVELING BABE — RULES FOR THE BOTTLE-FED
26. 26.MILK SANITATION — SUGAR — ACIDITY — CREAM — HERD MILK — SANITARY DAIRIES — CERTIFIED MILK — BOILING THE MILK — PASTEURIZATION — THE CARE OF BOTTLED MILK
27. 27.HOME MODIFICATION OF MILK — PREPARATION FOR MODIFICATION — BOTTLES AND NIPPLES — CARE OF BOTTLES AND NIPPLES — PREPARING THE FOOD — DETAILS OF PREPARATION — TABLE FOR INFANT FEEDING — TOP-MILK FORMULA — PEPTONIZED MILK — BUTTERMILK — CONDENSED MILK — SPECIAL FOODS
28. 28.THE FEEDING PROBLEM — INFANT WELFARE — CHOOSING A FORMULA — THE BOTTLE-FED BABY — MAKE CHANGES GRADUALLY — COMMON MISTAKES IN FORMULAS — SYMPTOMS OF DISSATISFACTION — FLATULENCE — VOMITING — OVER-FEEDING — WEIGHT — THE STOOLS — BOTTLE FEEDING AND CONSTIPATION — DIARRHOEA — REGULATION OF THE STOOLS — MIXED FEEDING — INFANT FEEDING PUZZLES — INFANT FOODS
29. 29.BABY'S BATH AND TOILET — THE FIRST WEEK — GIVING THE BATH — THE SECOND WEEK — TEMPERATURE OF BATHS — THE BATHING PLACE — FREQUENCY OF BATHS — BEST HOUR FOR BATHING — SOAP AND WATER — ROUTINE OF THE TUB BATH — BABY'S DAILY RUB — USE AND ABUSE OF TALCUM — TONIC AND MEDICATED BATHS — FEAR OF BATHS — OUT OF DOOR BATHING — MILK CRUST — THE EYES, EARS, AND NOSE — CARE OF THE MOUTH — THE CARE OF THE GENITAL ORGANS — CARE OF THE BUTTOCKS — OTHER SPECIAL CARE
30. 30.BABY'S CLOTHING — GENERAL SUGGESTIONS — BABY'S LAYETTE — BANDS AND SHIRTS — DIAPERS — CHANGING THE DIAPER — RUBBER DIAPERS — STOCKINGS AND BOOTIES — SKIRTS AND PETTICOATS — NIGHTGOWNS, WRAPPERS, AND SLIPS — SLEEPING BAG — COMMON FAULTS WITH MOST LAYETTES — ERRORS IN CLOTHING — SHORT CLOTHES — CAPS AND WRAPS — THE FIRST SHOES — PLAY SUITS — WINTER GARMENTS — CLOTHING RULES
31. 31.FRESH AIR, OUTINGS, AND SLEEP — INDOOR AIRING — OUTDOOR LIFE — BEST HOURS FOR AIRING — THE COUNTRY BABY — WHEN NOT TO TAKE BABY OUT — WINTER OUTINGS — OPEN WINDOWS — SLEEP — SLEEP REQUIREMENTS — PUTTING BABY TO SLEEP — BEDTIME AND SLEEPING POSITION — WAKING UP AT NIGHT — DAILY NAPS
32. 32.BABY HYGIENE — WATER DRINKING — URINATION — EXERCISE — KISSING THE BABY — SUCKLING HABITS — KEEP BABY WARM — BABY'S TEMPERATURE — BABY BOUNCING — CARRIAGES AND GO-CARTS — BOW LEGS — LIFTING THE BABY — PREVENTION OF FALLS — THE BABY'S BREASTS — VISITING — THE RUNABOUT BABY — TOYS
33. 33.GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT — SPECIAL SENSES — HAIR AND SCALP — MISSHAPEN HEADS — THE SALIVA — SENSATIONS AND RECOGNITION — SITTING ALONE — DENTITION — APPEARANCE OF THE TEETH — DENTAL SUGGESTIONS — THE WEIGHT — GENERAL DEVELOPMENT — NORMAL BREAST WEANING — NORMAL BOTTLE WEANING — TRAINING THE BOWELS AND BLADDER — BABY'S SPEECH — DEFECTIVE SPEECH — CALISTHENICS — BOW LEGS AND WALKING — SUMMARY OF BABY'S DEVELOPMENT — DIET AFTER THE FIRST YEAR — CANDY
34. 34.THE CHILD
35. 35.THE CHILD
36. 36.THE SICK CHILD — THE NURSE — POSITION — GESTURES — SKIN COLOR — FACIAL EXPRESSION — THE HEAD — THE CHEST — THE ABDOMEN — THE CRY — COUGHING — THE BREATHING — THE PULSE — THE TEMPERATURE — THE MOUTH — NURSING — THE URINE — THE STOOLS — WHEN BABY GETS SICK — FEEDING THE SICK BABY — EXAMINING SICK CHILDREN — TREATMENT OF SICK CHILDREN — NURSING RECORDS — BAD-TASTING MEDICINES — TEMPERATURES AND PULSE — FEVER
37. 37.BABY'S SICK ROOM — LOCATION OF THE SICK ROOM — NECESSARY FURNISHINGS — THE NURSERY REFRIGERATOR — SICK ROOM DISINFECTANTS — THE MEDICINE CHEST — PATENT MEDICINES — AFTER THE SICKNESS IS OVER
38. 38.DIGESTIVE DISORDERS — VOMITING — COLIC — CHRONIC INDIGESTION — JAUNDICE — WORMS — HOOKWORM DISEASE — DISORDERED STOMACH — STOMATITIS OR THRUSH — CONSTIPATION — DIARRHEA — TREATMENT OF DIARRHEA — RUPTURE — PROLAPSE OF THE BOWEL — BLEEDING FROM THE NAVEL
39. 39.CONTAGIOUS DISEASES — CATCHING DISEASE — THE SPREAD OF CONTAGION — INCUBATION PERIODS — TYPHOID FEVER — MUMPS — SCARLET FEVER — MEASLES — CHICKENPOX — SMALLPOX — VACCINATION — DIPHTHERIA — WHOOPING COUGH — EYE INFECTIONS — RUNNING EARS
40. 40.RESPIRATORY DISEASES — WHY BABIES CATCH COLD — CORYZA—COLD IN THE HEAD — GRIPPE — SORE THROAT — ADENOIDS — DISEASED TONSILS — BRONCHITIS — SPASMODIC CROUP — PNEUMONIA
41. 41.THE NERVOUS CHILD — HEREDITARY NERVOUSNESS — EARLY TRAINING — SPOILING THE CHILD — PLAYMATES — TEACHING SELF-CONTROL — CRIME AND INTEMPERANCE — UNSPOILING THE CHILD — PREVENTING HYSTERIA — METHODS OF DISCIPLINE — RESPECT FOR AUTHORITY — FALSE SYMPATHY — SYSTEM AND ORDER — EMOTIONAL RUNAWAYS — THE FINAL REWARD
42. 42.NERVOUS DISEASES — SLEEPLESSNESS—INSOMNIA — NIGHT TERRORS — NERVOUSNESS — HEADACHE — CONVULSIONS—SPASMS — NERVOUS TWITCHINGS — RETENTION OF URINE — BED WETTING — MENINGITIS — INFANTILE PARALYSIS — SAINT VITUS' DANCE — CONGENITAL DISORDERS
43. 43.SKIN TROUBLES — CHAFING — VULVOVAGINITIS — ECZEMA — ECZEMA TREATMENT — HIVES AND FRECKLES — RINGWORM — BOILS — FEVER BLISTERS — WARTS — BIRTHMARKS — ERYSIPELAS — SCABIES AND LICE
44. 44.DEFORMITIES AND CHRONIC DISORDERS — HARELIP AND CLEFT PALATE — DEFORMED HANDS AND FEET — SPINAL CURVATURE — POTT'S DISEASE — RHEUMATISM — SCURVY — ADENITIS—ENLARGED GLANDS — RICKETS — MALARIA — TUBERCULOSIS — SYPHILIS
45. 45.ACCIDENTS AND EMERGENCIES — INSECT BITES AND STINGS — DOG BITES AND SNAKE BITES — SWALLOWING FOREIGN BODIES — FOREIGN BODIES IN THE EYE — FOREIGN BODIES IN EAR AND NOSE — EARACHE — NOSEBLEED — CUTS AND TEARS — PUNCTURED WOUNDS AND SLIVERS — BRUISES — FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS — SPRAINS — FROST BITES AND CHILBLAINS — SWALLOWING POISONS — BURNS — FAINTING
46. 46.DIET AND NUTRITION — ASSIMILATION OF FOOD — ELIMINATION OF BODY WASTES — ELEMENTS OF NUTRITION — PROTEINS — STARCHES — FRUIT SUGARS — FATS — MINERAL SALTS — CELLULOSE — WATER — ANIMAL HEAT — FUEL VALUE OF FOODS — DIET FOR CHILD TWO TO THREE YEARS OLD — FOODS ALLOWED CHILDREN OF FOUR YEARS AND OLDER — FOODS TO BE AVOIDED BY YOUNG CHILDREN — EATING BETWEEN MEALS — DAILY FOOD REQUIREMENT
47. 47.CARETAKERS AND GOVERNESSES — HOMEMAKING VS. HOUSEKEEPING — MOTHERS IN THE PROFESSIONS — WORK OUTSIDE THE HOME — SELECTING A CARETAKER — THE UP-TO-DATE MOTHER — QUALIFICATIONS OF THE GOVERNESS — HINTS FOR THE CARETAKER — OVERCOMING BAD HABITS
48. 48.THE POWER OF POSITIVE SUGGESTIONS — EARLY FEARS — FEAR OF NOISES — FEAR OF DARKNESS — THE FOLLY OF MAKING THREATS — CHILDREN WHO ARE CALLED "COWARDS" — THE GIRL WHO WOULD "TURN OUT BAD" — WHAT HEALTHY FAITH-THOUGHT WILL DO — THE POWER OF SUGGESTION — BEDTIME A GOOD TIME TO SUGGEST — NEVER ACCUSE CHILDREN OF DISHONESTY — IT IS EASY TO FORM GOOD HABITS — CHIVALROUS SPIRIT
49. 49.PLAY AND RECREATION — JUVENILE PLAY DAYS — OUTDOOR PLAY — INDOOR GAMES — THE "GOING TO SCHOOL" CHILD — COMPANIONS — THE "IN THE HOUSE" HOUR — PARTIES — PICNICS — "MOVIES" — VACATIONS — ADOLESCENT DAYS — ICE-CREAM PARLORS — DANCING — QUESTIONABLE PLAY
50. 50.THE PUNY CHILD — DIET AND HYGIENE — IMPROVING THE APPETITE — THE DAILY PROGRAM — TREATMENT SUGGESTIONS
51. 51.TEACHING TRUTH — A LESSON FROM NATURE — THE ALL IMPORTANT POLLEN — THE MORNING GLORY FAMILY — HOW MOTHER NATURE WORKS — THE SALMON FAMILY — EARLY QUESTIONS — ONE MOTHER'S AWAKENING — DON'T GET SHOCKED — DON'T REPULSE THE CHILD — NECESSARY MORAL TRAINING — SANTA CLAUS AND THE STORK — STORY OF THE HUMAN BABY — THE MATING STORY — UNFOLDING THE TRUTH — THE DOCTOR'S PART — TRUSTING YOUR CHILD — TEN POSSIBLE CAUSES OF SECRET VICE — TRUTH VS. EXAGGERATION
52. 52.APPENDIX
53. 53.APPENDIX — BATHS USED TO REDUCE FEVER — TONIC BATHS — THE NEUTRAL BATH — FOMENTATIONS — THE SOAP SHAMPOO — MOIST ABDOMINAL BANDAGE — HEATING COMPRESS — MUSTARD PASTE — THE OIL-SILK JACKET — STEAM INHALATIONS — LOTIONS FOR SORE MOUTH — FOR NOSEBLEED — THROAT GARGLES — MOUTH WASH — DISINFECTANTS — POULTICES — COUGH SYRUP — LOTIONS FOR CHAPPED HANDS — ECZEMA — TABLE OF POISONS AND ANTIDOTES — TABLE SHOWING THE AVERAGE WEIGHT, HEIGHT, AND CIRCUMFERENCE OF HEAD AND CHEST OF BOYS [6] — ICHTHYOL SUPPOSITORIES — OIL ENEMA — TABLE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES — HOT COLONIC FLUSHING — ENEMAS — EMETICS — A CALORIE — ACIDIFYING AND ALKALINIZING FOODS — CEREAL WATERS, ETC. — FRUIT JUICES — LEMONADE AND EGGNOGS — MILKSHAKE — MEAT AND MEAT JUICES — CODDLED EGG — SOUPS — BREADS
54. 54.INDEX
55. 55.INDEX

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