A grandmother's advice to young mothers on the physical education of children / by Dowager Mountcashell.

  • Moore, Margaret King, 1772-1835.
Date:
1835
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Credit: A grandmother's advice to young mothers on the physical education of children / by Dowager Mountcashell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    seems to belong to the first months of pregnancy, and which might often be rendered scarcely per- ceptible by proper attention to the state of the bowels. Women of a costive habit of body, ge- nerally, suffer more from what is called the breed- ing sickness than those of a contrary constitution ; and such should therefore have recourse to the aid of medicine ; which, it is scarcely necessary to say, should be of the mildest sort. Bleeding is also sometimes requisite, and many women are taught to believe it so much so, that if they have had oc- casion for it in the first, the same necessity will occur in every succeeding pregnancy; but this is a false, and may often prove an injurious opinion. Were more judicious arrangements made respect- ing diet and exercise, it is probable that all these artificial aids might generally be dispensed with. If a pregnant woman eats a great quantity of animal food, drinks fermented liquors in abundance, and leads a sedentary life, her situation will na- turally produce an extraordinary fulness of the blood-vessels, and incur the necessity of bleeding and other medical aid: but to one who eats mode- rately of meat, vegetables, fruit, &c, drinks chiefly water, and takes exercise (especially on foot) every day, for her amusement, such assistance will pro- bably be unnecessary-. Loose and light clothing is, also, of the greatest importance to the well-being of both the mother