Mother and child / by Edward P. Davis.

  • Edward P. Davis
Date:
1921
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Mother and child / by Edward P. Davis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ble for a woman to conceive while nursing a child and for menstruation to be continually absent for a number of years. Conception is most apt to occur either before or after the usual time for menstruation. If the month be reckoned at thirty days between menstrual periods, the ten days immediately preceding menstruation and the ten days immediately following the time when it occurred or should have occurred are the most favorable periods for conception. Asmenstruation occurs in most patients, it affords the only basis which we have for computing the duration of pregnancy. The conditions which favor the occurrence of conception are in many cases obscure. General good health is often not present in women who bear children frequently. Re¬ covery from severe illness seems in some cases to make the patient more liable to conception. The fecundity of the poor shows that luxury is not a requisite for fertility. Unfortunately, the drunken and vicious bear children much too frequently. In general, sound health and a life as normal as surroundings will permit favor healthful pregnancy, and abnormal con¬ ditions do not conduce to healthful conception. Signs and Symptoms of Pregnancy. Pregnancy may exist for several weeks and occasionally for several months without signs