Advice to the Expectant Mother: Fifty Antenatal Talks
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The doctor who finds difficulty in eliminating the less essential facts and in simplifying his knowledge sufficiently for presentation to the average working-class mother will be helped by this small book. All the important advice necessary for a woman during pregnancy is contained in the fifty outline talks designed to cover the 40 weeks of pregnancy. The majority of the talks are simple and short, conveying one lesson only and there is much repetition of essential points. Doublless Colonel Birdwood's experience as a professor of midwifery in Lucknow and as medical officer to a child welfare clinic has taught him that attention to these points is very necessary in successful teaching. Even when the standard of intelligence is not high, the adult will respond better to suggestion accompanied by explanation than to suggestion alone aud it hardly seems enough to make bald statements such as ' Washing the body keeps the skin healthy and acting well' and ' Danger in confinement may arise from diet' without
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