VIII. SHE is prudently to avoid all Apprehensions of _Fears_ and _Frights_, and not to be _surpriz’d_ at any thing she hears or sees.
IX. SHE is cautiously to decline _Watchings_, and sitting up late at _Nights_; but must indulge _moderate Sleep_.
X. SHE must not _lace_ herself (as _before_) with _Whalebone-Stays_, nor use _Busks_; which may not only spoil her _Breasts_ and _Belly_, but also _mis-shape_ the INFANT, if _Abortion_ does not immediately follow.
XI. SHE ought discreetly to suppress all _Anger_, _Passion_, and other _Perturbations_ of Mind, and avoid entertaining too _serious_ or _melancholick Thoughts_; since all _such_ tend to impress a _Depravity_ of Nature upon the INFANT’S _Mind_, and _Deformity_ on its _Body_.
XII. SHE is not to be too _Busy_, or _Attentive_, fixing her _Eyes_ too much upon any one OBJECT; especially on deformed _ugly Persons_, or any such accidental _disagreeable Sight_.
XIII. AS to her _Appetite_, she ought to set the _Delphick Oracle_ before her (_Nil nimium cupito_) and _desire_ nothing but what _she can have_ to her Satisfaction.
XIV. SHE must carefully avoid all strong _purging Medicines_,[56] especially before the _fourth_, and after the _sixth Month_: And even _Then_ also, unless a Necessity of turgid _Matter_, or unfix’d _Humours_, oblige her to it, or require _Evacuation_. She is also likewise to abstain from all PHLEBOTOMY[57], especially in the _latter Months_.
XV. AS to her _Exercise_, of what kind soever, the following general _Rule_ may suffice; _viz._ the _first Month_ she ought not to _exercise_ herself at all: The _second_, but seldom and slowly: The _third_, oftner and briskly: The _fourth_, _fifth_, and _sixth_, moderately and boldly: The _seventh_, _eighth_, and to the middle of the _ninth_, she should study by degrees to reduce Herself discreetly, and abstain from all her wonted _Exercise_, and act very circumspectly in all Regards; especially[58] the _eighth Month_, which is the most dangerous and troublesome of all the Time of _Pregnancy_.
XVI. LASTLY, Let her _State of Health_ be never so good, she ought to take proper _Medicines_ to strengthen the WOMB, as well as the FŒTUS, in order to prevent _Accidents_, which may happen to the _strongest Woman_.