Radiant Motherhood: A Book for Those Who are Creating the Future

by Marie Carmichael Stopes

Dedicated to young husbands and all who are creating the future

CONTENTS

	PAGE
	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]

PREFACE

This book is written for the same young people who inspired Married Love. Many of my readers have asked me to write such a book as this, and I sincerely hope that it will not disappoint them. Many, many people have contributed facts which have helped me to write it. The book, however, is pre-eminently the work of my baby son and his father, whose beautiful spirits have been, and will be, through all eternity united with me in a burning desire to bring light into dark places.

M. C. S.