Getting Ready to be a Mother

Getting Ready to be a Mother - a little book of information and advice for the young woman who is looking forward to motherhood

The childbearing function is a wonderfully complex physiological phenomenon. It affects and is influenced by almost every organ and tissue in the human body. The body of the female child from the earliest weeks of its life in its mothers womb, while receiving nourishment from her body, through infancy and the years of childhood to maturity is being gradually molded and developed for the special carrying out of this one functionthe crowning and most vital act of woman. Although the childbearing function is the origin and source of the human race, existing throughout the ages, the processes connected with it have only in recent years been clearly understood. Our present-day knowledge of the processes connected with childbirth makes it easy to understand how, in the early ages of the human race, the function was a normal function, with little or no danger to mother or child. But with the gradual growth of the race, with the beginning of the struggle for existence and the appearance and spreading of disease, all interfering with the natural growth and development of the body, the function of child bearing ceased to be a normal function, as designed by its Maker, and became one fraught with dangers to both mother and child. Nevertheless, through ignorance of these changes brought on by civilization, the idea that the function is a normal process, the risk slight and fatalities infrequent and when occurring, inevitable, is the almost universal belief to-day. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 67971
Author: Van Blarcom, Carolyn Conant
Release Date: May 2, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Publication Date: 1922
Publisher Country: United States