Tokology : a book for every woman / by Alice B. Stockham.

  • Alice Bunker Stockham
Date:
[1911]
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Credit: Tokology : a book for every woman / by Alice B. Stockham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    evidence that there are morbid conditions. The system is likely to take on excess of fat, and become loaded with poisonous elements. To fight an excessive appetite is the hardest battle of the pregnant woman. If convinced herself that over-eating is injurious, her friends are delighted to see her enjoy her food, and furnish everything that pleases her taste, and she eats in season and out of season. She even “ gets so hungry she cannot sleep,” and in the night partakes of a pantry feast. If the best conditions are sought for self and child this morbid appetite must be overcome. Observe religiously a few rules: On no account eat between meals. Partake mostly of fruits and vegetables. Keep away from the odour of food. Take plenty of outdoor exercise. When a sense of hunger comes on, drink hot water, or hot lemonade. Have a strong will to conquer and the victory will be won. Loss of appetite is seldom sufficiently persistent to occasion anxiety, unless accompanied by nausea, or constipation. (See Chap. V.) Usually it is nature’s method of restoring normal conditions, and if let alone completely will right itself. One, however, is so imbued with the fear of not being nourished that she forces herself to eat, and hence thwarts nature. If there is no appetite, eat nothing, for the food will not be digested. If in following this rule one feels a faintness or a “ goneness ” at the stomach, drink thin bran gruel hot, or a cup of wheat coffee. Wait for the next meal—if still there is no appetite pursue the same course. Longings.—Many women all through pregnancy
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