See, e.g., T. Arthur Helme, "The Unborn Child," British Medical Journal, Aug. 24, 1907. Nutrition should, of course, be adequate. Noel Paton has shown (Lancet, July 4, 1903) that defective nutrition of the pregnant woman diminishes the weight of the offspring.

[11]

Debreyne, Mœchialogie, p. 277. And from the Protestant side see Northcote (Christianity and Sex Problems, Ch. IX), who permits sexual intercourse during pregnancy.

[12]

See Appendix A to the third volume of these Studies; also Ploss and Bartels, loc. cit.

[13]

Thus one lady writes: "I have only had one child, but I may say that during pregnancy the desire for union was much stronger, for the whole time, than at any other period." Bouchacourt (La Grossesse, pp. 180-183) states that, as a rule, sexual desire is not diminished by pregnancy, and is occasionally increased.