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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
April
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
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AFTER BABY COMES.

The Disappointments of a Weak Mother.

After the baby's coming the weak mother often has her first great disappointment in not being able to nurse her child. Perhaps she is not strong enough to sustain more than her own life during the days of slow convalescence. Perhaps there is a lack of the secretions which make the baby's food. In any case she feels robbed of half the joy of her maternity because she cannot nurse her child. And she envĂ­es the healthy woman who cares for it and who permits the mother to occasionally see and caress her own baby. If women would consider the matter they could hardly expect to be strong after the baby's coming if they were weak before. The woman who suffers during the prenatal period -- who is nervous and sleepless ad without appetite, is exhausting her vitality before the hour of her trial, and when that time comes her very weakness increases her sufferings and prolongs them. It is no wonder, if, after the baby is born, the mother has no strength to nurse it. The one great necessity for happy motherhood is good health.

THE SECRET OF HEALTHY MOTHERHOOD lies largely in the proper preparation for the great physical strain and drain which women undergo at such a time. A proper preparation for maternity will keep the nerves tranquil and the temper even; it will encourage the appetite and give restful sleep. It will enable the mother to actively engage in her household duties until the time of the baby's advent, and give her strength to give her child.

Because it does all this and more women have named Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription "A God-send to Mothers."

"I take this opportunity of expressing my everlasting gratitude to you for the wonderful benefits I have received from the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and 'Golden Medical Discovery.'" writes Mrs. E. H. Newton, of Vauburen, Aroostook Co., Maine. "My baby was born in May, 1896, and for weeks after I was delirious. My friends did not know whether I would live or die. The doctor in attendance did not give much encouragement, and said that if I did get well I would never live through another such period. When I consulted you in April, 1899, I was in poor health; had been sick all winter, and to add to my trouble, was on the road to what the doctor said would end my days. I was almost discouraged; did not expect any help, but thought the end was only a matter of time, and -- oh! my two poor, little, motherless children.

"It was in this condition that I began the use of your valuable medicine. On receipt of your letter of April 6th my husband purchased six bottles and I used it as you directed. When you wrote me words of encouragement on April 27th I had received no benefit from the medicine, but determined as a last resort to give it a fair trial. I am now taking the thirteenth and last bottle. I have a lovely baby girl three weeks old that weighed 11 1/2 pounds at birth. My baby and I are enjoying perfect health, thanks to your wonderful medicines, to which I believe I owe my life. I cannot find words to express my gratitude to you, and I hope you may long be spared to perform the good work in which you are now engaged."

MOTHERS PONDER THIS!

It is not you only who suffer when you are weak during the term of maternity, but your child must suffer also. It can have only what strength you can give. Your nervousness, fretfulness and fearfulness will leave a life-long impress upon your child, and while you in a few months will recover from the effects of the trial you have undergone, the baby's whole life will reflect the influence of those months of maternal misery.

If you can be a strong, healthy mother by any means, you owe it to your child to use those means at any cost. It is a matter of record that thousand of women to whom maternity was a menace and a misery have been made healthy, happy mothers by the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, which gives abundant strength and makes the baby's advent practically painless.

"I cannot say too much for Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription," writes Mrs. S. E. Rose, of Big Otter, Clay Co., West Va. "I feel it my duty to say to all women who are suffering from female trouble that it is the best medicine on earth that they can use. I cannot praise it too highly for the good it has done me.

I am the mother of five children, and have been as high as eight days in the doctor's hands, and never less than two days at any time until the last. Then I had used two bottles of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and was only two hours in the hands of the doctor."

REALLY WONDERFUL RESULTS.

Read the letter of Mrs. Rose carefully and you will realize why she cannot praise "Favorite Prescription" too highly. The difference between one hundred and ninety-two hours suffering reduced to two hours by the use of "Favorite Prescription" explains her gratitude, but cannot express it. It takes a woman and a mother to understand all that can be possible in one hundred and ninety two hours of suffering at maternity.

Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription not only gives the mother strength in the period of waiting, but it cures or prevents nausea, and makes the baby's advent practically painless. It is the best tonic and nervine tor nursing mothers. It promotes the secretion of an abundance of nourishment for the child while giving strength to the mother. All alcoholic and stimulating medicines are particularly dangerous to nursing mothers, or in the period of convalesence which follows the baby's birth. "Favorite Prescription" contains no alcohol, and is entirely free from opium, cocaine and all other narcotics. It is a real nerve-feeding, body-building medicine.

FREE TO MOTHERS.

Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser, the best modern medical work, is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Send thirty-one one-cent stamps for the cloth-bound volume, or only twenty-one stamps for the book in paper covers. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N.Y.