ned and travel in the
general circulation and thus endanger life.

Diet.--Should be supporting. Salts for the bowels.

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ALL ABOUT BABY

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Preparation, Outfit, Nursing, Formulas for Preparation of Milk
for Bottle-Fed Infants; Weaning, Teething, Diet Through
Childhood, All the Baby Diseases, etc., from the Best Medical
Authority, Infant Hospitals and Nurses.

How long does pregnancy usually last? Two hundred and eighty days.

How can the time be reckoned? Count back three months from the first day
of the last menstruation and add seven days to the date thus obtained. To
be more accurate, you should add only six days in the months of April and
September, five days in December and January, and in February four days.

What time of pregnancy does the form begin to change? It changes a little
the first two months. It is flatter and lower down. After the third month
there is a progressive enlargement.

What is quickening, and when first felt? It is a motion, of the foetus
(child) in the womb, imparted to the abdominal walls, and is felt from the
sixteenth to the twentieth week. It has been said to have occurred earlier
in some cases.

Can you foretell twin pregnancy? Not to a certainty.

Can a mother influence her child as to character and temperament before
birth? Authorities differ very much upon this point. The child inherits
the physical characteristics of its parents. The frame of the mother's
mind, some think, can be given in some degree to her offspring.

Will nervousness be inherited by the child? Not invariably; if the mother
is fretful, irritable, cross, repining, etc., her child may be puny, cross
and irritable, etc.

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Do you believe in influences transmitted before birth (parental
influences?) All must admit that there is a great deal in heredity, and
the characteristics of parents are shown in their children.

Can a mother mark her baby? This is another disputed question.

When should the family physician be informed of the woman's condition? The
first month.

Why? So that the woman will know how to live properly, and also that he
will be given the urine twice each month to examine. This is for her
protection and is necessary, because anything that may be wrong with the
kidneys can be corrected much easier, and diet, etc. can be arranged to
prevent future trouble.

What kind of diet should a pregnant woman have? She shoul