Culture and traditions around pregnancy, birth and baby

[Lulu]

OH Tracey, nothing your hubby could do would make him unattractive......*sigh - what a hottie!

I think Welsh refuse to tell anyone the name of the baby until after its been christened, so its "Baby" for a few months.

[SugarDust]

When I was PG with Marcus DF and I went out with his work mates for christmass drinks and all the maltesse guys (there was about 4 of them) kept offering me there food, saying that a PG woman needs to eat even if she wasn't hungry it was to help feed bubs, so being me and not wanting to offend any one I would eat until I was full as a goog!

[Missy]

Great thread hun.

Oh why cant Aussie ladies get some 20 + days in bed after giving birth. Id love that.

[sangie]

That is also true for Singaporean women. My friend is from Singapore and after giving birth she stayed in bed for 30 days and was fed a vegetable broth everyday which is supposed to be good for milk supply. Her mother and MIL were in charge of keeping the house during that time and mum/bub basically spent the whole time in bed.

To be honest, that might be ok for a few days but I think I'd go nuts staying in bed that long!!

[Pandora]

yep one of the women at work is Chinese, and shes not supposed to shower, bathe, anything for a month after the birth (she had big arguments with the family over that one)

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Tracey, I hear you! Don't call your child ANYTHING you don't want whilst in utero.

My DS knew he was loved and precious, but also when I was pg I told people who asked "what is it?" that I was having a platypus. DS darts around like mad and also can eat his own bodyweight in food in a single day. And then some, if I'm honest (we've kept tabs, home and Nursery, for our own interest: he has eaten this much!). But he is also gorgeous, clever, strong, precious and adorable. Which doesn't quite make up for the food bill, but never mind.