Monthly diet of the pregnant woman

In the first and second months the pregnant woman is fed daily with rice together with sweet and cooling articles (the commentary: vegetables, fruits, grains, milk and the like) and butter; in the third month rice with good cow's milk; in the fourth, food with curd several times; in the fifth, food with good cow's milk; in the sixth, food with curd as in the fourth; in the seventh month, when the fetus grows hair, food with milk, together with a daily dose of medicated ghee to calm body heat. The eighth- and ninth-month measures follow.