A manual for midwives and monthly nurses / by Fleetwood Churchill.

  • Fleetwood Churchill
Date:
1872
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Credit: A manual for midwives and monthly nurses / by Fleetwood Churchill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and have a firm, solid, and knotted feel, and the woman complains of tingling and stinging pains in them. The nipple becomes more pro- minent, and with the circle {areola) round it, acquires a deeper color, and the little pimple- like glands upon the areola are more marked. There is frequently, as pregnancy advances, a secretion of milk, or something like it, which escapes from the nipple and stains the linen. Some of these changes may occur without pregnancy, or may be very slightly marked, although the patient be pregnant. They, therefore, are not proofs of pregnancy, but. only additional evidence of its probability. I am, however, inclined to lay great stress upon the knotty, solid, glandular feel, as I have never seen it well marked, except in pregnant women. 4. Somewhere about the middle of the fourth month of pregnancy, the mother quickens, as it is called, on the supposition that, at tha' moment, the child became alive or quick. This is simply a popular delusion. The child is alive, in the fullest sense of the term, from the moment of conception, but the mother first perceives its movements when she quickens, not because it never moved before, but because she could not feel them, owing to the situation of the uterus. At first, this quickening is like a feeble pulse in the lower bell}-, gradually in-
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