Are the taboos after pregnancy credible

PART1 Folk taboo, is it credible?

1. Unreasonable taboos

Some taboos and fasting during pregnancy are the summary of people's long-term life experience, and some are based on medicine. For example, if pregnant women eat certain foods that are difficult to digest or prone to illness, they are listed as taboos. But many of them are pure nonsense, but they also reflect people's eugenic wishes.

Folk dietary taboos that have no scientific basis include the following common ones:

★Pregnant women should avoid eating rabbit meat, otherwise their children will have harelips. This statement has been spread widely and for a long time. There is a record in "Natural History" written by Zhang Hua of the Western Jin Dynasty: "Pregnant women are not allowed to eat rabbit meat, and the rabbit cannot be seen, causing the baby to have missing lips."

★Don’t eat dog meat, otherwise the child will love to bite people in the future and will also love to bite the nipple when feeding.

★Don’t eat donkey meat, otherwise your children will be “donkey-like” and disobedient in the future.

★Avoid eating roosters, so that the children you give birth to will not cry at night.

★Avoid eating crabs, so that the child will not sip foam and drool. It is also said that eating crabs will cause dystocia. According to Taiwanese folklore, if you eat crabs, your children will be able to grab and twist other people's hands and feet like crabs.

★Avoid eating ginger to prevent baby from having six fingers.

★Don’t eat ducks. It is believed that eating ducks will cause children to get head-shaking disease.

2. Behavioral taboos for pregnant women

Many taboos spread among the people during pregnancy are not necessarily scientific, but most of them are beneficial to maintaining the physical and mental health of pregnant women, the normal development of the fetus, or are directly beneficial to protecting the fetus.

1 Pregnant women’s houses cannot be demolished or repaired casually, nor can they be moved.

This taboo is mainly related to touching the fetal spirit. Of course, when moving, you will have to sort things out, move heavy furniture, etc., which does increase the chance of accidents for pregnant women, but these tasks can still be done by family members.

2 Pregnant women cannot sew or use scissors

It is said that children born in this way may have defects. In fact, about 2-3% of all fetuses are born with deformities of various sizes. Perhaps it is these small uncertainties that gradually form such a legend, which is completely unreasonable.

3 “Happiness upon happiness” endangers mother and child

There is a traditional saying that during pregnancy, when the uncle or sister-in-law of the family is getting married, they cannot greet the limo, otherwise the fetus will be frightened. If you attend a wedding, you are not allowed to eat wedding banquets or wedding cakes and candies, so as not to endanger the mother and child. This situation is also difficult to understand, but it can be regarded as a unique custom of the Chinese people. Similarly, pregnant women cannot watch funerals to avoid evil spirits. There may be some truth to this, because pregnancy is considered a happy event. Nowadays, more and more attention is paid to prenatal education, because the sad atmosphere of funerals will affect the mood of expectant mothers, which is not a good thing after all.

4 Drying clothes causes miscarriage

After pregnancy, many movements are not very suitable for pregnant women, especially those with a big belly. Their movements are often limited and they are more likely to fall. It is not the housework itself that causes the problem, but accidents that are prone to occur during the process. Anyway, after you get pregnant, you will be taken care of, so let your other half take care of many household chores.

5 Pregnant women cannot watch the mother giving birth, otherwise she will have dystocia in the future

This taboo has a scientific basis, because when a pregnant woman sees the painful expression of a woman who is giving birth and hears her screams, it can easily cause a kind of mental pressure. When she gives birth, she may be nervous nervous, causing dystocia.