2. The food- soft porridge is the most common and also rooibos tea. They help with lactation. Lots of eating, sleeping and drinking water during that period.
3. Those Lennon products are such a common norm in SA homes for decades. They differ and you should read / google the uses of each product before use. Some are for constipation, stomach / digestion issues with the baby and the one they add in the water is for the baby’s muscles since he/ she is still young to stretch her bones/ muscles. They are soo many but I’m sure you can ask the pharmacist. The brand works best, if your baby has issues with anything they probably recommend droplets from the Lennon brand- I don’t have a baby so I’m just giving you a round about with the medicinal stuff 🤭
Hey Oyin , I’ll try to answer everything you asked🤭 1. Confinement culture- in many South African tribes if not all, the mother & baby are not allowed to leave the house for at least 3 months. The law also adapted this norm because your leave has to extend & include 3 months postpartum, hence why it might be common to ask or know when someone is due . In that 3 months, in some traditions you are not allowed to even leave your bedroom and strangers who don’t live in that house can’t visit because the baby will pick up thier energy whilst he/ she is still ‘weak’. You also can’t cook or do anything around the house- in some traditions you are considered ‘dirty’ so you can’t touch the pots etc🤭😂. You are basically supposed to focus on healing only. Your mom or mom in law also come to help this side or even your nanny but you can’t do first 3 months of postpartum alone.
Congratulations! What I’m getting here and from conversation with Nigerian friends you guys are more religious than we are. For us cultural norms are separate from Church or religious beliefs. We tend to lean more on our different cultural practices and beliefs. christening at some point for the very religious people. Those products 🤭😂😂 my family is still mad at me for not using them! I was suppose to travel overseas with my baby and decided not use things I wouldn’t be able to explain to Drs. In Abu Dhabi if something went wrong. They call my child an internet baby🤭
Lennon is one of the oldest brand of medicines in South African. There a different perposes for each. For babies there r one, for colic, constipation, for cough, for massaging the baby, bathing.etc.
Again on some African cultures they use a wood or a tree block and put it by the gate or door to signify to those who visit that there's a new born in the house. So visitors and all the uncles, the father would sit outside for a tiny while to ease off all the, for want of a better word, spirits they would have evaluated encountered as they walk or drive. It is called cooling off the feet or cooling off of feet. So you sit a bit outside before you can walk anywhere near the new born.
Lennon is one of the oldest brand of medicines in South African. There a different perposes for each. For babies there r one, for colic, constipation, for cough, for massaging the baby, bathing.etc. Aquas cream is wit moisture & babies normally have sensitive skin. Soap & other thing turn to hursh. The red cream not everyone uses. I dont even know what is used for. The placenta only ppl of certain culture take it home. I didn't Im Tswana. A must for a breastfeeding is all whole of Rooibos tea, home cooked is fine along as it not too spicy. Confinement wit Tswanas is mostly 3 months
Those products is more like traditional, some is for protection , our parents are the once that can explain more about them, I remember my baby was struggling to sleep then my mom said I should buy harlamanses ,after bathing my baby with it ,he started to have a normal sleep.
It is believed there's witches who form against at knowing all the granular details of your pregnancy but in the cities and townships it's not taboo to ask
so much work. yoh!!!!!!!!!!!!
4. The placenta tradition you mentioned is also common here- we also bury it and you pray over it with close family
2. The food- soft porridge is the most common and also rooibos tea. They help with lactation. Lots of eating, sleeping and drinking water during that period.
I like that baby room, so cute ❤❤
3. Those Lennon products are such a common norm in SA homes for decades. They differ and you should read / google the uses of each product before use. Some are for constipation, stomach / digestion issues with the baby and the one they add in the water is for the baby’s muscles since he/ she is still young to stretch her bones/ muscles. They are soo many but I’m sure you can ask the pharmacist. The brand works best, if your baby has issues with anything they probably recommend droplets from the Lennon brand- I don’t have a baby so I’m just giving you a round about with the medicinal stuff 🤭
Hey Oyin , I’ll try to answer everything you asked🤭
1. Confinement culture- in many South African tribes if not all, the mother & baby are not allowed to leave the house for at least 3 months. The law also adapted this norm because your leave has to extend & include 3 months postpartum, hence why it might be common to ask or know when someone is due . In that 3 months, in some traditions you are not allowed to even leave your bedroom and strangers who don’t live in that house can’t visit because the baby will pick up thier energy whilst he/ she is still ‘weak’. You also can’t cook or do anything around the house- in some traditions you are considered ‘dirty’ so you can’t touch the pots etc🤭😂. You are basically supposed to focus on healing only. Your mom or mom in law also come to help this side or even your nanny but you can’t do first 3 months of postpartum alone.
Congratulations! What I’m getting here and from conversation with Nigerian friends you guys are more religious than we are. For us cultural norms are separate from Church or religious beliefs. We tend to lean more on our different cultural practices and beliefs. christening at some point for the very religious people.
Those products 🤭😂😂 my family is still mad at me for not using them! I was suppose to travel overseas with my baby and decided not use things I wouldn’t be able to explain to Drs. In Abu Dhabi if something went wrong. They call my child an internet baby🤭
Lennon is one of the oldest brand of medicines in South African. There a different perposes for each. For babies there r one, for colic, constipation, for cough, for massaging the baby, bathing.etc.
Again on some African cultures they use a wood or a tree block and put it by the gate or door to signify to those who visit that there's a new born in the house. So visitors and all the uncles, the father would sit outside for a tiny while to ease off all the, for want of a better word, spirits they would have evaluated encountered as they walk or drive. It is called cooling off the feet or cooling off of feet. So you sit a bit outside before you can walk anywhere near the new born.
Lennon is one of the oldest brand of medicines in South African. There a different perposes for each. For babies there r one, for colic, constipation, for cough, for massaging the baby, bathing.etc.
Aquas cream is wit moisture & babies normally have sensitive skin. Soap & other thing turn to hursh.
The red cream not everyone uses. I dont even know what is used for.
The placenta only ppl of certain culture take it home. I didn't Im Tswana.
A must for a breastfeeding is all whole of Rooibos tea, home cooked is fine along as it not too spicy.
Confinement wit Tswanas is mostly 3 months
Ivimbela it's made from traditional medicin and its mixed with Vaseline
My son name was from a family friend.
Those products is more like traditional, some is for protection , our parents are the once that can explain more about them, I remember my baby was struggling to sleep then my mom said I should buy harlamanses ,after bathing my baby with it ,he started to have a normal sleep.
I'm not Tswana but my baby momma(s) are and there's secrecy in terms of months, how many weeks and due dates in South Africa.
It is believed there's witches who form against at knowing all the granular details of your pregnancy but in the cities and townships it's not taboo to ask
You are a big girl now I couldn't recognise you
So according to you Nigeria culture is better than south africa