OF HIS UNCONSCIOUS CONTRIBUTIONS TO ITS
PRACTICAL FEATURES, SHOULD BE REGARDED AS A
CO-AUTHOR, THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY
DEDICATED BY HIS PARENTS
THE AUTHORS

PREFACE

For many years the call for a book on the mother and her child has
come to us from patients, from the public, and now from our
publishers--and this volume represents our efforts to supply this
demand.

The larger part of the work was originally written by Dr. Lena K.
Sadler, with certain chapters by Dr. William S. Sadler, but in the
revision and re-arrangement of the manuscript so much work was done by
each on the contributions of the other, that it was deemed best to
bring the book out under joint authorship.

The book is divided into three principal parts: Part I, dealing with
the experience of pregnancy from the beginning of expectancy to the
convalescence of labor: Part II, dealing with the infant from its
first day of life up to the weaning time; Part III, taking up the
problems of the nursery from the weaning to the important period of
adolescence.

The advice given in this work is that which we have tried out by
experience--both as parents and physicians--and we pass it on to
mothers, fathers, and nurses with the belief that it will be of help
in their efforts at practical and scientific "child culture." We
believe, also, that the expectant mother will be aided and encouraged
in bearing the burdens which are common to motherhood by the advice
and instruction offered.

While we have drawn from our own professional and personal experience
in the preparation of this book, we have also drawn freely from the
present-day literature dealing with the subjects treated, and desire
to acknowledge our indebtedness to the various writers and
authorities.

We now jointly send forth the volume on its mission, as a contribution
toward lightening the task and inspiring the efforts of those mothers,
nurses, and others who honor us by a perusal of its pages.

WILLIAM S. SADLER.

LENA K. SADLER.

_Chicago_, 1916.

CONTENTS

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PART I

THE MOTHER

CHAPTER PAGE

I The Expectant Mother 1
II Story of the Unborn Child 7
III Birthmarks and Prenatal Influence 14
IV The Hygiene of Pregnancy 21
V Complications of Pregnancy 35
VI Toxemia and It