The care of the baby : a manual for mothers and nurses, containing practical directions for the management of infancy and childhood in health and in disease / by J.P. Crozer Griffith.

  • John Price Crozer Griffith
Date:
1923
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Credit: The care of the baby : a manual for mothers and nurses, containing practical directions for the management of infancy and childhood in health and in disease / by J.P. Crozer Griffith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nancy, many of which she is capable of observing her¬ self. It is proper to remark that none of these indicate anything further than the probable existence of preg¬ nancy. There are only a few positive signs, and these can be„ detected by the physician alone. The most striking and valuable of the presumptive signs is, of course, the cessation of the monthly periods; yet even this is not entirely reliable, for various other causes may account for it. It sometimes happens that menstruation is absent for several months in early married life, and yet that conception has not taken place; while, on the other hand, the menstrual periods oc¬ casionally come on regularly during a part or, rarely, all of pregnancy, although in this case they are usually scanty and of short duration. Finally, a woman may conceive while still nursing and before menstruation has been re-established. As a rule, however, the cessation of menstruation in a married woman previously regular indicates pregnancy. Enlargement of the abdomen is another important sign, although usually not detected before the fourth month of pregnancy. A valuable indication is enlarge¬ ment of the breasts with tenderness of the nipples and a decided widening and darkening of the pink or light- brown ring, or areola, around each of these. Sometimes a small amount of watery fluid is secreted later. The enlargement of the breasts begins in some instances in the second month of pregnancy, and becomes quite noticeable in the fourth and fifth months. The altera¬ tion of the areola commences to be visible by the end of the second month. “Morning sickness” is a symptom present in many women. It consists usually in the occurrence of nausea, and perhaps vomiting, in the early morning, but it some¬ times lasts all day. It appears generally in the second
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