cy every kind of agitating exercise, such
as running, jumping, jolting in a carriage, and plunging in cold
water, should be carefully avoided, as well as the passions being kept
under perfect control.

THE DIET

must chiefly consist of fruits and farinaceous food, as sago, tapioca,
rice, etc. In proportion as a woman subsists upon aliment which is
free from earthy and bony matter will she avoid pain and danger in
delivery; hence, the more ripe fruit, acid fruit in particular, and
the less of other kinds of food, but particularly of bread or pastry
of any kind, is consumed, the less will be the danger and sufferings
of childbirth. Nearly all kinds of fruit possess two hundred times
less ossifying principle than bread or anything else made of wheaten
flour.

Honey, molasses, sugar, butter, oil, vinegar, etc., when
unadulterated, are entirely free from earthy matter. Common salt,
pepper, coffee, cocoa, spices, and many drugs are much worse than
wheaten flour in their hardening and bone-forming tendency, and should
therefore be avoided. The drink should be tea or lemonade made with
water, soft and clear, and, when practicable, distilled.

No mother who has adopted this mode of living but has blessed the
knowledge of it, and it has saved many a young mother from needless
terror.

In the third month of pregnancy, but not before, the belly begins to
enlarge or swell, and gradually increases in size till the full term
of pregnancy is completed. Between the sixteenth and twentieth week
the womb rises up into the belly, and the motion of the child is felt,
which is called

QUICKENING.

The first time a woman is with child this sensation of quickening is
like that of a bird fluttering within her; at other times she feels a
tickling or pushing sensation, or the child gives a kick or a jump,
and this, too, with so much energy as to move the petticoats, a book,
or any light article she may have in her lap.

It is important to remember these symptoms, and the order in which
they occur: first, cessation of the menses; second, morning sickness;
third, swelling and darting pains in the breast, and dark color around
the nipples; fourth, gradual enlargement of the abdomen or belly;
fifth, the movement of the child.

In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, if these symptoms are present
the woman is pregnant. Pregnant women are generally affected with
heartburn, sic