CONTENTS

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Preface[ix]
CHAPTER
I. The Lover’s Dream[1]
II. Conceived in Beauty[9]
III. The Gateway of Pain[18]
IV. The Young Mother-to-be:
Her Amazements[32]
V. Her Delights[39]
VI. Her Distresses[44]
VII. The Young Father-to-be:
His Amazements[52]
VIII. His Delights[58]
IX. His Distresses[62]
X. Physical Difficulties of the Expectant Mother[71]
XI. Physical Difficulties of the Expectant Father[93]
XII. The Union of Three[99]
XIII. The Procession of the Months[113]
XIV. Prenatal Influence[130]
XV. Evolving Types of Women[146]
XVI. Birth and Beauty[161]
XVII. Baby’s Rights[171]
XVIII. The Weakest Link in the Human Chain[183]
XIX. The Cost of Coffins[201]
XX. The Creation of a New and Irradiated Race[208]
APPENDICES
A. Physical Signs of Coming Motherhood[229]
B. On Birth[231]
C. Suggestions for Calculating the Date of Anticipated Birth[233]