. Woman : her sex and love life. Under Care of Physician and Eemaining Under HisCare During Entire Period. The disorders and disturbances described aboveare, with the exception of pernicious vomiting, of aminor nature. They are annoying, may cause con-siderable discomfort and suffering, but they do notendanger the life of the woman or of the child. Oc-casionally, however, fortunately not very often, thekidneys become affected, and for this conditiontreatment by a physician is absolutely fact, the correct and safe thing for a woman todo is to consult a physician as soon as she know
. Woman : her sex and love life. Under Care of Physician and Eemaining Under HisCare During Entire Period. The disorders and disturbances described aboveare, with the exception of pernicious vomiting, of aminor nature. They are annoying, may cause con-siderable discomfort and suffering, but they do notendanger the life of the woman or of the child. Oc-casionally, however, fortunately not very often, thekidneys become affected, and for this conditiontreatment by a physician is absolutely fact, the correct and safe thing for a woman todo is to consult a physician as soon as she knowsshe is pregnant, and have him take care of her dur-ing the entire pregnancy. Some women engage aphysician during the eighth or ninth month andthis is decidedly wrong, because it may then be toolate to correct certain troubles which if taken atthe outset could have been easily cured; while manytroubles in the hands of a competent physician canbe prevented altogether. I must therefore reiterate: 102 WHEN TO ENGAGE A PHYSICIAN 103. every woman should engage a physician from the beginning of her pregnancy, or at least during the third or fourth and certainly not later than the fifth month. He will examine the urine every month and make sure that the kidneys are in order, he will make sure that the child is in a normal position, and will prevent a host of other is not a special treatise on the management of pregnancy, and therefore minute details are out of place. Besides, to the details the physician will attend. But some hints regarding diet and general hygiene will prove useful. If everything is satisfactory, ifthere is no severe vomiting, kidney trouble, etc., theusual mixed diet may continue. The only changes Iwould make are the following: Drink plenty of hotwater during entire course of pregnancy: a glass ortwo in the morning, two or three glasses in the after-noon, the same at night. From six to twelve glassesmay be consumed. Also plenty of milk, buttermilkand ferm
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