This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 23rd day of April, 1942, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [457], Associate Member of the Association for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.

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1. GC: You will have before you the body and enquiring mind of [457], N.Y.C., who seeks information, advice and guidance as to the preparation of body for pregnancy, and the best development of the child. You will answer the questions she submits, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [457], as respects the preparation of the body for pregnancy.
3. In these respects we have had this before.
4. The entity should realize that while the preparation of the body is purely pathological, the preparation of the mind and of the spiritual forces is of creative force and is as necessary as, or more so than, the purely physical.
5. Ready for questions.
6. (Q) Is the weight low enough now to make it safe to start a baby?
   (A) So far as the physical conditions in the body are concerned, as we find, it is sufficiently low enough.
7. (Q) Is it really weight or the pliability of the body which is more important for childbirth?
   (A) Pliability of the body. Thus the greater preparation THIS body may make, or MOST bodies for that matter, is to be under the care of a competent osteopath through the period of gestation; not a chiropractor but an osteopath!
8. (Q) Is the blood test as taken by Dr. Frank P. Dobbins satisfactory to show that there is the proper balance of the elements for replenishing all nerve energies?
   (A) This is very good and indicates that physically the body is very good for this preparation, as indicated.
9. (Q) It is not necessary to have it done again by Dr. Mary Miller? [See 457-5.]
   (A) No.
10. (Q) Since Dr. Dobbins says blood is normal in every way, it is not necessary then to have the vibratory influences of either the Wet Cell or the Radio-Active Appliance?
    (A) Not in the present. As just indicated, this may be better to be tested along as conditions develop.
11. (Q) Nor the vibratory influences of either gold or silver?
    (A) As just indicated.
12. (Q) Is the uneven beat of the heart anything abnormal? Can it be corrected?
    (A) This is rather the nerve and emotional nature of the body, and is NOT pathological; though it may under certain stresses or strains have pathological reactions, see?
13. (Q) Are teeth in good condition now to stand the strain of pregnancy?
    (A) Will necessitate that there be plenty of those foods carrying calcium, during the period.
14. (Q) Do the proper foods prevent deterioration of the teeth and falling out of hair?
    (A) They do; though it may necessitate glandular changes at times in a body. For, though the proper food may be taken if the glandular system does not assimilate it in such a manner as for it to be used properly in the body, it does not prevent deterioration, see? It must be properly assimilated.
15. (Q) Is there something else which must be done to prevent these things?
    (A) As we have just indicated.
16. (Q) What foods must the body eat to give the baby perfect physical health without making the mother too overweight?
    (A) As just indicated. As we find here, there will only be necessitated the keeping of a well balanced condition as related to calcium, and the foods that aid the body of the mother in the kidneys acting normally with the liver.
17. (Q) Should meat be entirely eliminated?
    (A) No. Fish food and fowl are the character of meats to be taken. Not ham or hog meat, nor rare beef.
18. (Q) What foods carry most of the Vitamin B?
    (A) All those that are of the yellow variety, especially, and whole grain cereals or bread.
19. (Q) Is it part of this vitamin which can prevent the hair from growing gray?
    (A) Not necessarily. This only supplies energy. Energy is not the activity, especially, for the thyroid. It is from the thyroid that the activity is produced for hair upon the body.
20. (Q) Why should body take the Grape Juice?
    (A) To supply the sugars without gaining or making for greater weight.
21. (Q) Does it really have a direct effect on the reduction of weight?
    (A) If it hadn't, would it be given?
22. (Q) Would any exercises make it possible to avoid Caesarean, or to better prepare for childbirth?
    (A) As we find, as just indicated, the better preparation is to keep under the direction of a competent osteopath throughout the period.
23. (Q) Since conception will most readily take place just before the periods of menstrual flow, will the following menstrual period be stopped?
    (A) Not necessarily; this depends upon the character, the nature. But there is rarely more than one - unless it is false conception.
24. (Q) Is there a definite number of days before the period within which it must occur?
    (A) If there is the study of how conception takes place, it will be understood that this takes place only when there is the flow from the ovary of the mother and there is the spermatozoa of the male present. Whether it's days or hours or the minute! It may be a day, it may be an hour, it may be ten minutes, it may be two days. But this depends upon WHEN there is the flow - not of the menstrual period but from the ovary.
25. (Q) Is conception likely to take place at first trial, or is it impossible to determine the exact time?
    (A) Read just what has been given.
26. (Q) Can sex of child be predetermined by any natural law?
    (A) There may be a suggestion TOWARDS such, but not a predetermined. Remember, the soul comes from God.
27. (Q) Would the greater positivity or negativity of either man or woman have any effect on the sex of the child?
    (A) To be sure.
28. (Q) Any other advice?
    (A) Remember, the attitude is the main purpose - and the willingness to be the channel; not merely for the gratification of self - or that there may be offspring, but WHOLLY to the glory of the Father through the Christ.
29. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. See 457-7 on 10/17/41 and subsequent Reports.
2. 4/07/42 She submitted questions.

REPORTS

1. 5/07/42 "My last reading was exciting and interesting and I expect to send the rest of the questions very soon."
2. 5/11/42 "Here are the last of my questions. I can hear you chuckle, practically five pages. There is so much I want to know somehow, and you know I don't have much trust in doctors. But in this case I'll have to have one so I want to know where I stand.
   "I know too that the mental-spiritual is important and two pages are questions on that. I just wanted to make sure that my body was all right first. After all I'm not so young and a lot has happened to it since I married almost 13 years ago. I don't believe I have finished the purpose for which God put me on this earth so I do want to take advantage of the opportunity He has given me through you.
   "Can you also use this information for your general information? Do you have such information segregated in your files? That was what Hugh Lynn was working on wasn't it?
   "Now I'm going to get a reading ready for [412]. Want to make sure he gets himself in condition too. His heart seems to bother him when he does any extra physical work.
   "Things have been growing nicely in the garden. Though we have had too little rain. I've been taking a little more time off and working in the garden does me good in many ways. Hope you come up some time and can see it."
   Love to all and specially yourself, [457]
3. 5/21/42 See 457-9.
4. 5/22/42 She obtained 412-14 for her husband.

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