Show EXPECTANT MOTHERS j GO THROUGH PERIOD r OF NERVOUS STRESS rt Temperamental al Moods Are Arel Part of Condition Caused i iby by Glands Gland By MYRTLE MEYER 1 The prospective cUve mother quite of or ten battles h her r way WAr through a a p f rind of high em emotional n i She looks and f feels interIor inferior Sh SheM ls moody at one moment the pr prey y to tol the hc most ridiculous and gloomy t for foi bodings and again unnaturally x- x These hel heights and d dof de dDt of ot emotion make her irritable i Why is she moved and tantalized by jy such emotional vagaries The They are part and parcel of ot the tension and imbalance natural to toh her condition The thyroid and the tary glands arc are with the sex leX 11 a in in a state stale of The whole system m Is so 50 closely related that pregnancy which af affects ex glands will be accompanied by a 1 corn COm actuating excitation of th the other re y glands This ThU may make for f h. h cial elal eruptions for the extreme nausea that is commonplace the first firt f Ww w weeks until a better glandular balance Is i attained for the swollen ly 11 condition of the face related t to pituitary and to lh lb highly nervous excitation accompany ing an overactive thyroid Whether or not the mother understands under stands the interrelation of or these thie glands gland she should at least recognize their influence on her conduct ie Then Then- she n need ed not allow herself to be enguLfed engulfed en en- gulfed gulled by the harrowing thought that that- she is unhappy and morose became beaus she is being forewarned of some aster lter Likewise e because of ot he her e em emo tension she makes herself tb natural victim of calamity howler Hordes of them descend upon her heri re reo telling their own experiences with O ob 4 relish Childbirth has ha always alway been moth smothered 1 ered in that sort ort of traditional a abr tj of suffering which being Ing so entire ly Iy personal cannot be discounted d ar or r refuted It makes each mother feel fed compelled to carry on th the tradition n nand and join the ranks of other female martyrs to motherhood Pros Prospective j cUie mothers should cling to th the thought that their estate tate Is La a natural one It Is accompanied by some some discomforts and by the temperamental tal moods mood which being part and parcel of the condition presage nothing The ordinary information on physical phy I Ical 1 cal care caje is to be found in my my leaflet called Prenatal Care Be sure td in- in close a self self addressed addressed sed 3 3 cent ent At stamped d envelope with your your r request f for r it from this department The emotional upheaval from which mothers mothers' sult suffer r unaware of its significance is s apt tibe to ti tobe be pooh or ignored Understand Understand Under Under- stand it and nod b bear ar with it k knowing that it is as s temporary as their ir physical hYl cal cai condition i |