result from something unusual about
the lining of the uterus such as an endometritis--an inflammation of
the mucus membrane.

Expectant mothers who manifest symptoms of a threatened miscarriage
should studiously avoid such exercises as climbing, riding, skating,
tennis, golf, dancing, rough carriage or automobile riding, and such
taxing labor as sweeping, lifting, washing, running the sewing
machine, window cleaning, the hanging of pictures, draperies, etc.

CRAVINGS

Within reason, a pregnant mother should follow her natural appetite
and satisfy her dietetic longings. Should she desire unusual articles
of food, as far as possible she should have them. The idea has long
prevailed that if the mother does not get what her longing soul
supremely desires, that the on-coming baby is going to cry and cry
until it is given what the mother wanted with all her heart and did
not get. Such an idea is the very quintessence of folly and the
personification of foolishness and superstition.

Many a precious babe has suffered as a victim of this notion of
"craving" and "marking." One mother gave her baby a huge mouthful of
under-ripe banana because "she knew that was just what he wanted,
because, when pregnant, she had craved and craved bananas and for some
reason or another she did not get them." The soft, smooth piece of
banana slipped down the baby's throat--on into the stomach and
intestines--caused intestinal obstruction and finally the end came;
and we registered one more victim to the fallacies of fear and the
superstitious belief in "cravings" and "markings." Occasionally some
cravings are unusual and freakish, for instance, egg shells, leather,
candles, chalk, and other abnormal tastes are developed. Of these we
have only to say, "Rise above them, become mistress of the situation
and change your longings." If such abnormal cravings come to you in
the kitchen, don your bonnet and go at once out of doors and take a
walk. Don't be foolish just because somebody told you foolish stories
about these things.

CONSTIPATION

Bowel hygiene is an important part of the management of pregnancy.
Constipation often proves to be very troublesome. In another chapter
this subject is treated at some length. Here, we pause only long
enough to say that habit has much to do with this difficulty. A
regular time should be set apart each day for attending to this
important matter.

HEMORRHOIDS

Of all the maladies that the human fam