Beautiful religious and cultural practices around pregnancy and child birth
Growing up in a very Colombian and Catholic family which didn’t assimilate very well into Australian society has made me into a person who has always been fascinated and intrigued by other cultural and religious practices. How cultures and religions manage pregnancy and child birth is particularly interesting to me. Here are few interesting practices that happen around the world:
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The female body undergoes so many physiological changes during pregnancy, it boggles the mind. For the lucky ones, you put on only the baby weight, your hair and skin glow, you don’t experience any morning sickness and you shoot out bub in a matter of hours returning to your pre pregnancy body within a couple of days (yes, there are people like this out there!!). For the unlucky ones, you only realise you are pregnant because suddenly out of nowhere you feel the urge to vomit at the most unsuspecting thing, your hair goes dull, your skin break outs, your so
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Before I had my girls, I had only ever heard from my ‘mummy’ friends how bad labour was. I never quite got ‘all’ the details if you know what I mean, but I also never heard how wonderful it could be. I knew that if I had a vaginal birth the pain would be horrendous and if I needed to have a caesarean, there was no point in getting upset about it, as long as my baby was healthy. Deep down inside, I wondered whether I had it in me to go the whole way and avoid taking anything to assist
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