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Nine Months' Reading: A Medical Guide for Pregnant Women
A Pregnancy Guide
176 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1972
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February 19, 2018
Okay my copy says this was published in 1960 which makes a lot more sense than the goodreads info.
Really interesting to think they didn't have a solution for Rh compatibility even twenty years before I was born. Or ultrasounds. You get an x-ray at 5 months if they think you might be carrying twins and that's it, no gender until delivery day.
Of course you can't judge the book for its inaccurate information, which I'm sure was the best they had at the time. It's grating, though, to hear a great take down of the natural child birth movement's arguments and then a chapter later to read those same arguments used in favor of breast is best (sure women benefit from the modern science of forceps delivery, but obviously every single woman could breast feed because: evolution? oh and don't worry about most of what happens during delivery because you don't have any control over it, but milk supply? totally a mind over matter thing and if you really love your child you'll have enough).Though I guess to be fair it was more valid to be cynical about formula when it was, according to the book, a homemade recipe of condensed milk, sugar, and water.
And of course the best thing about old medical books, the advice like this: all it takes is willpower to avoid gaining more than 15 pounds during pregnancy and if you're struggling to avoid snacks between meals, just have a cigarette instead.
Really interesting to think they didn't have a solution for Rh compatibility even twenty years before I was born. Or ultrasounds. You get an x-ray at 5 months if they think you might be carrying twins and that's it, no gender until delivery day.
Of course you can't judge the book for its inaccurate information, which I'm sure was the best they had at the time. It's grating, though, to hear a great take down of the natural child birth movement's arguments and then a chapter later to read those same arguments used in favor of breast is best (sure women benefit from the modern science of forceps delivery, but obviously every single woman could breast feed because: evolution? oh and don't worry about most of what happens during delivery because you don't have any control over it, but milk supply? totally a mind over matter thing and if you really love your child you'll have enough).Though I guess to be fair it was more valid to be cynical about formula when it was, according to the book, a homemade recipe of condensed milk, sugar, and water.
And of course the best thing about old medical books, the advice like this: all it takes is willpower to avoid gaining more than 15 pounds during pregnancy and if you're struggling to avoid snacks between meals, just have a cigarette instead.
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