Advice to a wife on the management of her own health : and on the treatment of some of the complaints incidental to pregnancy, labour and suckling with and introductory chapter especially addressed to a young wife / by Pye Henry Chavasse.

  • Q52148313
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[1877]
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Credit: Advice to a wife on the management of her own health : and on the treatment of some of the complaints incidental to pregnancy, labour and suckling with and introductory chapter especially addressed to a young wife / by Pye Henry Chavasse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    development are arrested and interfered with by tight stays and corsets. Why, the nipple is by them drawn in, and retained on a level with the breast—countersunk as it were, as though it were of no consequence to her future well-being, as though it were a thing of nought. Tight lacers will have to pay penalties they little dream of. Oh, the monstrous foUy of such proceedings ! When will mothers awake from their lethargy ] It is high time that they did so! Many a home, from the mother having no nipple—the effects of tight lacing—has been made childless—from the babe not being able to procure its proper nourishment, and dying in consequence ! It is a frightful state of things ! But fashion unfortunately blinds the eyes and deafens the ears of its votaries ! _ 879. A gathered bosom, or bad breast, as it is some- times called, is more likely to occur after a first confine- ment aad during ihQ first month. Great care, therefore, ought to be taken to avoid such a misfortune. A gathered breast is frequently owing to the carelessness of a mother in not covering her bosoms during the time she is suck- ling. Too much attention cannot be paid to keeping the breasts comfortably warm. This, during the act of nursing, should be done by throwing either a shawl or a square of flannel over the neck, shoulders, and bosoms. 880. Another cause of gathered breasts arises from d. mother sitting up in bed to suckle her babe. He ought to be accustomed to take the bosom while she is lying down; if this habit be not at first instituted, it wdl be difficult to adopt it afterwards. Good habits may, from earliest babyhood, be taught a child. 881. A sore nipple is another fruitful cause of a gathered breast. A mother, in consequence of the suffering it produces, dreads putting the babe to it: she therefore keeps him almost entirely to the other bosom, ihe result is, the breast with the sore nipple becomes distended with milk, which, being unrelieved, ends in inftammation, and subsequently in gathering. 882. Another cause, as I have before indicated, of a gathered breast is a mother not having a properly deve-