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    Pregnancy Traditions (Mountain Province)

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    Pregnant women in the Mountain Province were expected to continue their daily work while avoiding heavy lifting. They could eat most foods except twin bananas which was believed could cause twins. Others were expected to help pregnant women with heavy loads. During labor, the husband and mother or mother-in-law would assist and a midwife may be called for difficult births. Women typically gave birth standing up while holding onto objects for support.

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    Pregnant women in the Mountain Province were expected to continue their daily work while avoiding heavy lifting. They could eat most foods except twin bananas which was believed could cause twins. Others were expected to help pregnant women with heavy loads. During labor, the husband and mother or mother-in-law would assist and a midwife may be called for difficult births. Women typically gave birth standing up while holding onto objects for support.

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    Pregnant women in the Mountain Province were expected to continue their daily work while avoiding heavy lifting. They could eat most foods except twin bananas which was believed could cause twins. Others were expected to help pregnant women with heavy loads. During labor, the husband and mother or mother-in-law would assist and a midwife may be called for difficult births. Women typically gave birth standing up while holding onto objects for support.

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    PREGNANCY TRADITIONS (MOUNTAIN PROVINCE)

    Pregnant women are expected to continue their daily work except carrying heavy load and doing heavy work, while
    being careful not to lose her baby. This physically active life is observed to make labor easy.
    Pregnant woman is allowed to eat anything except twin bananas because she might have twins. There are some other
    taboo foods depending on what is available in the locality.
    When somebody sees a pregnant woman carrying a heavy load, he or she is supposed to carry it for her.
    If the pregnant woman is touched by the sun’s rays at sunrise while she takes a bath, her child may become an
    albino.
    Adults, especially the elders of the community, instruct the pregnant woman not to go to places that are “nangilin”
    (like far away water bodies or forests as something bad might happen to the baby) for the luta (environmental spirits)
    or anito may become envious of the infant and cause either a miscarriage or deformity. Hot or cold springs are taboo,
    for these are dwellings of spirits.
    She should not go to wakes (these are unhappy occasions and people then knew that the emotional state of the
    mother affects the unborn).
    pregnant woman must never sleep near open windows or openings of the house to avoid a kind of bird that is
    believed to prey on the hearts of the unborn and newborn babies.
    People are also not supposed to make a pregnant woman cry or angry.
    During celebrations like weddings, she is given a double portion.

    LABOR TRADITIONS (MOUNTAIN PROVINCE)

    The husband is expected to be around so wherever he is working, he is supposed to be home when the expected date
    is near and wait for the birth of the child. This ensures that the woman has somebody to help her 24/7, anytime she
    delivers or has a problem. The mother of the pregnant woman or her mom-in-law is expected also to be there
    especially during the expected birth of the first child. These ensure hands-on tutorial lessons thus there is passage of
    necessary knowledge, attitudes and skills regarding birthing and life, in general, throughout generations.

    The women of previous generations normally delivered their baby themselves, with minimal assistance from their
    husbands, who merely heated the water to bathe the newborn and a sharpened bamboo is also prepared for the
    cutting of umbilical cord of the baby. But to those who has someone with them, the mang- ilot or an old woman that
    have some experiences for childbirths hastens the birth by a gently downward drawing of the hands about the
    woman’s abdomen. The pregnant woman who is about to give birth is in standing position (omalagey), while
    grasping some things like chair or some sturdy things for her to hold on or she may take a more animal-like position
    or kneeling position (idokmog), placing both hands and feet on the ground.
    If the labor was abnormally long, the insup-ok (female/male shaman or manbunong) was called in to invoke the
    anito’s aid. Evil spirits in the house who might be causing the difficulty were driven away by the smoke of burning
    rags and rice husk. In cases of difficult childbirth, the inchawat (midwife) was called in.

    References:

    The Bontok People of the Philippines: History, Culture, Customs and Tradition [Philippine Indigenous People |
    Ethnic Group] Bontoc, Mountain Province, (2022). Yodisphere. Retrieved on September 30, 2022
    from https://www.yodisphere.com/2022/07/Bontok-Tribe-Culture-Bontoc-People.html

    Guidangen, J. S. (2020). Child Birth Rites of Kankanaey in Northern Luzon. International Journal of English
    Literature and Social Sciences. September 30, 2020 from https://ijels.com/upload_document/issue_
    files/34IJELS-101202154-ChildBirth.pdf

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