Quick Recovery After Painless Birth

I take great pleasure in giving to the public one instance, out of many, of Mrs. Eddy’s skill in metaphysical healing. At the birth of my youngest child, now eight years old, I thought my approaching confinement would be premature by several weeks, and sent her a message to that effect. Without seeing me, she returned an answer that the proper time had come, and that she would be with me immediately. Slight labor pains had commenced before she arrived. She stopped them at once, and requested me to call an accoucheur, but to keep him below stairs until after the birth. When the doctor arrived, and while he remained in a lower room, Mrs. Eddy came to my bedside. I asked her how I should lie. She answered, ‘It makes no difference how you lie,’ and added, ‘Now let the child be born.’ Immediately the birth took place, and without pain.

The doctor was then called into the room to receive the child, and he saw that I had no pain whatever. My sister, Dorcas B. Rawson, of Lynn, was present when my babe was born, and will testify to the facts as I have stated them. I confess my own astonishment. I did not expect so much, even from Mrs. Eddy, especially as I had suffered before very severely in childbirth. The physician covered me with extra bed-clothes, charged me to be very careful about taking cold and to keep quiet, and then went away. I think he was alarmed at my having no labor-pains, but before he went out I had an ague coming on. When the door closed behind him. Mrs. Eddy threw off the extra coverings and said, ‘It is nothing but the fear produced by the doctor that causes these chills.’ They left me at once. She told me to sit up when I chose, and eat whatever I wanted. My babe was born about two o’clock in the morning, and the following evening I sat up several hours. I ate whatever the family did. I had a boiled dinner of meat and vegetables the second day. I made no difference in my diet, except to drink gruel between meals, and never experienced the least inconvenience from this course. I dressed myself the second day, and the third day felt unwilling to lie down. In one week I was about the house and was well, running up and down stairs and attending to domestic duties. For several years I had been troubled with prolapsus uteri which disappeared entirely after Mrs. Eddy’s wonderful demonstration of Christian Science at the birth of my babe. Lynn, Mass., 1874