Turkish Culture birth

Turkish Culture birth

Traditional birth and the child's most important symbols of our culture, "Wood Cradle"

The birth of the first of the main transition periods of life, all over the world in Anatolia, as has been recognized as a happy event. Parents of every child born in only, but also relatives, neighbors and all the community happy.

Childbirth; the family of the individual, in terms of increasing power and importance of solidarity. And group solidarity, especially in small communities dominated by the traditional circles, a majority of the population of families themselves feel strong and durable. "Children in the family center, anchors the promise of" traditional culture, society and the family point of view on this issue reveals the value judgment.

Other aspects are examined in a birth, as well as increased women's dignity, his family, relatives and strengthens its position within the group. As the owner of the future with confidence, caring father, son, but also gaining respect among relatives and close friends.

Stages of preparation for birth and is accompanied by some rites of passage ceremonies. Birth event, which is one of three important transition phase, many pieces, tradition, ceremony, ritual, religious and magical practices celebrated. These applications are characterized by patterns of expectations and their respective cultures. The practices around birth, the person in this "transition" period to determine the status of a new, bless, celebrate, but also concentrated in the person believed at this time is intended to protect from harmful effects and possible dangers.

Anatolia obstetrical practices; prenatal, birth order, and consists of three parts, including post-natal stages.

PRENATAL

Oriented applications before birth; infertility removal, pregnant, craving, pregnancy, gender of the child during pregnancy, the pregnant woman abstains from understanding and behavior.

Resolve infertility, Pregnancy

In order to ensure women have children without the child in Anatolia, a series of religious-magical quality known practices are applied. Depending on the location of these traditional practices to modernize the methods of modern medicine has left.

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Believed to be the Holy Places in various ways in order to have children you are wished.

Applications applied for the determination of sex of a child

The period of pregnancy, one of the most important issues are also comments made about the future child's gender. Traditional areas, often with the physical appearance of the pregnant woman, the woman on the basis of the behavior of eating and drinking, and a number of comments were made about the future child's gender. Widely depending on the gender of the child's present modernization rather than the traditional interpretations of modern medical techniques are gaining ground.

Craving

Pregnant women, people called the "craving" comes to the stage to do some behaviors, especially looking at some objects, and avoid eating food or eating certain things are sure. These attitudes of women as physiological, is believed to eliminate the lack of some items within.

Aşeren women are usually bitter, sour and spicy refraining from eating things. This attitude is common in Anatolia "to sour, fertility Ayşe" is expressed in words. In response, interpreted as a sign of pre aşerirken boy eating sweet foods, among the people of this state "to the sweet, fertility men on horseback" statement explained.

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Connecting the cradle of her child Anne Wood

Pregnancy

Pregnant women in Anatolia, "installed, two living, pregnant, heavy foot, koynu full, full of böğrü, guzlacı" and so on. attributes are defined. Women, both during pregnancy and puerperium the patient is considered a kind of perimeter. In other words, group or community's cultural values ​​to which the pregnant woman, the woman in the patient category, which leads to the evaluation and appropriate behavior.

A number of pregnant Applications Against Women

From the moment the woman became pregnant, the child's mother is believed to be influenced by all the behaviors. Anatolia, which is very common in this part of the traditional beliefs still exists today. Depending on these beliefs, and that is appropriate to make a pregnant woman during pregnancy, there ought to avoid certain situations. Cultural practices in the environment as a pre-determined by the women who reminded him.

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East (Birth) Beds (Kütahya)

BIRTH ORDER

With the help of village midwives at home births in rural areas of Anatolia yaptırılmaktaydı past. Information transmitted from generation to generation by village midwives to help her, and her baby to comfort a woman who gave birth to a new drilling between family members. Solved in order to facilitate the birth of a pregnant woman's hair weaves, locked trunks, doors, windows opened, sprinkled feed the birds. Today, as a requirement of the birth of modern medicine in hospitals, university hospitals in remote mountain villages where medical procedures are done by trained midwives.

AFTER BIRTH

Pregnant women need after the birth of a new realization about the baby as well as women who had given birth, some actions should be performed. During this period, waiting for the woman and her infant is believed to be in some danger. Some operations are targeted to the protection of the mother or the child after birth. Post-natal stage applications are as follows:

ü the child's belly and his wife

Maternity ü

ü belief that Al's wife

belief that the Forty third flushes

ü Kırklama process

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Wooden Crib and Child

The navel of the child and his wife

Traditional folk culture, the new born baby's umbilical kordonuyla from behind his wife and the presence of an organic link between them is believed to be influenced by the bad treatment the child. The future of the child, the umbilical cord to prevent negative effects of future jobs and future never rolled randomly.

Sac in which the child in the womb, the wife of the past periods, traditionally, friend, companion, identified with names such as. The child a piece of his wife, children, and even looked through the eyes of a child after the birth itself is usually wrapped in a clean cloth, and buried in a place stepped foot.

Births occurred in hospitals today for the match, the traditional practice has been lost completely. And beliefs about the pieces of navel and from place to place, however, continues to this day.

Puerperium

This new woman had given birth, and yet not try to bed, maternity, maternity, lohsa, spout, loğsa, Nevs, are given names such as the forties. Duration of stay in bed after the birth of the woman; physiological status of women, birth is difficult or easy, the climate, environmental conditions and the bride's family's economic status and are subject to being loved.

Anatolia during the period of confinement is a common belief that the woman under the influence of various supernatural powers. Frequently used in traditional areas, "The myth of the forties woman for forty days and is open to grave" support this belief.

Al Wife Believed

Maternity and children sataştığı forties and sometimes believed to have killed them, as well as a supernatural entity known as the wife of al al, jazz, witch, al mother, daughter of al, al black, koncoloz, goncoloz, are given names such as land koncoloz.

Anatolia, stables, barn, mill, where an abandoned wrecks, water wells, water sources and puerperal women and forties where the child is believed to alone take some practice to protect his wife referenced. Cleaner to the location of maternity and child forties, Koran, onion, garlic, amulets hang your child's bag under the needle or packing needle insertion in childbed, or forties, forties, maternity and child's bag under the daggers, sickles, knives and so on. cutting tools, such as putting some of these applications.

Buy today, these applications are fairly rare to influence his wife. Al, however, is believed to have lethal effect on women in childbed in part the belief that his wife continue to exist.

Believed to forty flushes

Anatolia, the forty-day period after the realization of the birth mother and the baby some discomfort in the forty-flushes, falling forty, forty-mixing, maternity flushes, referred to in different ways, such as aydaş. Maternity and child in the forties of the forty-day period, will damage a number of objects alive and can be found in the belief. Forty-some measures are taken to avoid dominance. For example, the mother and child is not removed out of forty days, not compared with each other puerperal women and children from the forties.

Kırklama

Maternity and child forties forty basmaması, maternity and child to relax, at the end of forty days after birth, usually in the form of women and children practice washing "kırklama", "forty-cast", "forty-removal" are given names such as.

The most commonly performed procedure kırklama Anatolia fortieth days. This period varies according to region, 7th, 20th, 30th, 37th, 39th, 41st can be done in the days kırklama. This process, although regional differences in content is an application for the same purpose. Kırklama in pieces and practices about birth process, as in the past continue to apply today.