5 best weird uses around childbirth

Yes, you read that right. Why didn't I know this? Of course, it was a long time ago and in combination with milk and herbs, but still. Just for all the pregnant women among us, or just because it's nice to know for the non-pregnant; the 11 quite weird childbirth customs from around the world.

1. Beer and red onions
While we sip on a glass of tonic and eat a pineapple to induce labor, in Guatemala they apparently (I wasn't there) cook red onions in beer and eat that to induce labor. I've also heard that a solid session equal to that which started it all nine months ago is a good way to say to the little one: “It’s time to leave the house.”

2. Five years without sex
In Papua New Guinea, women apparently only have sex again when they are no longer ‘lactating’. And since there are women who breastfeed for years, there is also a bit of a sexual interlude, so to speak. That's quite different from the six weeks of ‘freedom’ that we are prescribed.

3. Burying the placenta
Everything is done with the placenta, or the mother cake. Some people feed it to the dog so that he would better accept the new child, while other women let the placenta dry and make supplements from it. In Hawaii, the placenta is buried with a nice ritual.

4. Giving birth in silence
While there is often screaming and crying in the maternity ward in the Netherlands, among the Inuit it is considered the greatest good to give birth in silence. That is the ultimate control.

5. Sprinkling with cake
In Ireland, the icing from the wedding cake would be saved for the baptism of the children. They are then sprinkled not only with water but also with icing.

Source. www.mixed-babyes.com