The children of pregnancies previous to the one complicated by the contagious disease may be healthy, while those of subsequent pregnancies are defective.
Thus mothers have borne moral imbeciles, epileptics or lunatics, after a pregnancy during which they were attacked by contagious disease, albeit the children of subsequent and previous pregnancies were normal.
Marandon de Monteyel[237] finds that multiple and frequently repeated pregnancies often occur among the families of hereditary lunatics.
Mares usually go about eleven months with young, though first pregnancies often last a year.
With the longer pregnancies there is a greater probability of male offspring.
They never laid off at this time except in a few cases in which subinvolution after pregnancies and genital infections had left conditions that made it hard to understand how they worked at all.
For example, too frequent pregnancies of the child's mother, which have resulted in impoverishing the maternal organism, causing deficiency of milk, etc.
Very short intervals between successive pregnancies interfere with this progression in weight; long intervals on the contrary do not interfere with it" (Wernicke).
If, then, in normal pregnancies about one child in five is lost before birth, husbands should be taught a continence which would to some degree avert this calamity.
When successive pregnancies are interrupted prematurely the abortion is said to be habitual, and again the commonest cause is syphilis.
A woman may not be sterilized by having the uterus removed, by fallectomy, or otherwise, solely to obviate danger or morbidity from subsequent pregnancies and cesarean deliveries.
Dread of large families or of close-interval pregnancies under modern conditions is undoubtedly a common reason for attempting to limit the family.
Here again it was found exceedingly difficult to obtain exact figures, but the evidence suggests that probably less than seven pregnancies in every 100 terminate in spontaneous abortion.
Not only are there cases in which severe illness exists making further pregnancies dangerous, but there is also a heterogenous group including all gradations of health and economic reasons.
In other words, roughly twenty pregnancies in every 100 terminated in abortion.
Footnote 55: According to Kassowitz, in women who are not treated all pregnancies occurring within the first three years of their infection terminate either in abortion or in the birth of children who survive for only a few weeks or months.
We will therefore follow up this tendency of the patient and carry on his play with figures, by adding to the figure 26 the two completepregnancies of nine months each.
Here again we come upon the important figure 9, which neatly combines the reckoning of the pregnancies and births.
First pregnanciesare also fraught with the danger of miscarriage, which occurs more often in them than in others, excepting the latest.
It has been asserted that compound pregnancies are more frequent in certain years than in others.
Protracted pregnancies are caused by a defect in the energy of the womb, induced by moral as well as physical influences.
These alterations do not occur in all women, nor in all pregnancies of the same woman.
How to avoid them--Education of the child in the womb--Are double pregnancies possible?
We may remark, in closing this subject, that fewer plural births come to maturity than pregnancies with single children.
The last pregnancies are not only most commonly unsuccessful, but there is also reason to believe that the occurrence of idiocy in a child may be associated with the circumstance of its being the last-born of its mother.
The evils of a too rapid succession of pregnancies are likewise conspicuous in the children.
And in twin pregnancies the morning sickness is apt to be more distressing, and all the other discomforts incident to this condition increased.
Miscarriages are comparatively more frequent in such pregnancies than in ordinary ones.
During each of twopregnancies she was punctured three or four times; one of her children was still living.
In twin pregnancies there is sometimes a delay of many days in the birth of a second child, even to such an extent as to give suspicion of superfetation.
She nursed all 14 of her children up to the time that she found herself pregnant again, and during the pregnancies after the first the flow of milk never entirely ceased; always after the birth of an infant she was able to nurse it.
Cases of long retained intrauterine pregnancies are on record and deserve as much consideration as those that were extrauterine.
Since Willoughby's time several cases of similar interest have been noticed, one in a woman of forty, who had been married sixteen years, and who had had several pregnancies in her early married life and a recent abortion.
Brodie, Dunglison, Erich, Rodbard, Fox, and Wilson are among others reporting the expulsion of remnants of ectopic pregnancies through the abdominal parietes.
The time of the retention of an extrauterine gestation is sometimes remarkable, and it is no uncommon occurrence for several pregnancies to successfully ensue during such retention.
A lady who had several children and suffered much in her pregnancies passed five years without becoming impregnated.
From the Protestant point of view it is immoral to burden one's wife with continual pregnancies, while from the Catholic point of view it is immoral to interfere with these pregnancies by preventive measures.
They do not run the risk, like girls, of falling through ignorance into the abject dependence of a forced marriage, and have no pregnancies to fear; but they are more exposed to temptation.
Hence, if the woman is very fruitful, the husband has only the choice between complete abstention from coitus (when both conjoints are in agreement) and pregnancies following without interruption.
Some pregnancies are a veritable misfortune for the parents and offspring, when the bodily and mental health of the mother or child, or both of them, is in danger.
When pregnancies succeed each other at reasonable intervals of one or two years, the normal woman lives with her children for many years in intimacy which never entirely ceases in a family animated by human and social sentiments.
It had been estimated that one-third of the pregnancies in several great cities abroad aborted.
The babies of all those to whom the question was submitted were normal; yet without exception those whose pregnancies just completed were their first answered in the affirmative.
Occasionally, such pregnancies come to a premature end in spite of every precaution.
We have seen that the proportion of pregnancies which end in miscarriage is quite formidable.
When pregnanciesfollow one another in rapid succession, the liability to miscarriage is notably increased.
With individuals inclined to be stout the increase is greater, and it is relatively greater in later pregnancies than in the first.
French statesmen attribute the alarming decline of the birth-rate in their country, in great part, to a rapid increase in the number of pregnancies which end prematurely.
Similar variations occur in the pregnancies of all animals, and are, moreover, notably greater among larger animals, since for such animals the period of gestation is relatively long.
Reliable English and German statistics indicate that of the pregnancies which come under the observation of physicians approximately twenty per cent, end in miscarriage.
It is generally admitted that second pregnancies average somewhat longer than first pregnancies; one series of statistics indicates that the duration increases slightly with each pregnancy up to the ninth and decreases after that.
A woman of thirty-eight years had undergone thirteen pregnancies in seventeen years.
These unwantedpregnancies often provoke the crime of abortion, or alternatively multiply the number of child-workers and lower the standard of living.
But from the point of view of Birth Control, that will never be possible until the crushing exigencies of overcrowding are removed--overcrowding of pregnancies as well as of homes.
It may be noted that most observers find that very early pregnancies occur in women who begin to menstruate at an unusually early age, that is, some years before the early pregnancy occurs.
She considers that most of the women who terminate their pregnancies artificially would only have produced undesirables, for the normal, healthy, robust woman has no desire to effect abortion.
We've got to ask our community leaders and all kinds of organizations to help us stop our most serious social problem: the epidemic of teen pregnancies and births where there is no marriage.
The Family Planning program has been effective at reducing unwantedpregnancies among low-income women and adolescents.
In a small number of pregnancies the impregnated ovum is arrested at the ovary, or on its passage from the latter through the Fallopian tubes; it then does not arrive in the cavity of the uterus.
Another requisite to bearing healthy children is that the pregnancies shall not follow each other too rapidly.
It is a sympathetic disorder reflected from the uterus; it is aggravated by indigestible food, by sexual excitement, and by emotional disturbances; it is most marked in first pregnancies and in women of highly emotional natures.
A further investigation in order to ascertain any possible relation between the age of marriage and the number of pregnancies and the sufferings of the menopause elicited the following statistics.
As most pregnancies occur in married women, we cannot base any calculations on a single act of coitus.
Pregnancy from post-partum oestrus would seem to be less frequent than pregnancies beginning a few days after birth of the previous litter, and within the period of lactation.
Earliest pregnancies occur when females are approximately one month old, but most are several weeks older before they become pregnant.
The occurrence of multiple pregnancies may be explained by the supposition that ova matured subsequent to the first fecundation are also fecundated.
These accidental pregnancies are the great immediate cause of the enormously common crime of abortion, concerning which the morals of the people are amazingly blunted.
I do not think I was very different in my pregnancies to others.
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