"Joshua Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
>When this topic comes up in real life, my wife inevitably says something
>like::
>
>"In agrarian societies, pregnant women get back to work immediately.
>Basically, squat in the field and deliver, then bundle up the kid and
>resume
>working."
Might be true, but not to my knowledge. I know women who have given birth in
fields, all by themselves [ouch!]. And then, they bundle up the baby [and
the cut grass, gathered firewood, whatever]and trudge back to the village
and let the women of the family care for them.
>
>Obviously, she's exagerating just a tiny bit. :)
Just a teeny-weeny bit, though :o)
>
>Her impression from limited amounts of research is that the trauma of
>childbirth (both in the days before, during the event, and the days after)
>is a cultural affectation, and "western women are wimps".
IF the trauma is a cultural affectation, then this affectation is
universally endemic. In Korea [my in-laws are Korean], the recuperation
period mandated by tradition is 100 days.
Ritu
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