As I gave birth to my first girl in the DR, I know some in this area:
when you are pregnant, you can't open the refrigerator. When you gave birth, you can't wash your hair for one month! When the baby has hiccups, you should put a little piece of wiring on his forehead, to make the hiccups stop (finally it will stop, but not because of the wiring off course!)
You can't let the baby look in the mirror, because then he wil become mute. Don't let the baby crawl under the table, because then he won't grow anymore. The baby must have a bracelet with a "mal de ojo" it's a little black ball, to protect him for voo-doo and witches.
As I respect my family in law, I just accepted what they told me, once at home I dit my own things...
Dominican woman also do a lot of shower for luck "un baņo para la suerte", they buy a bottle of something from a witch, and take a shower with it, than they are supposed to get luck soon!!
I 've lost two babies too, and they (my family in law) braught me all of weird kinds of "tratamientos para limpiar el cuerpo".
I never drunk of it, but when finally I was pregnant from my second girl, everybody was happy, and the "tratamiento" had done his job. (I never told them that I never used it, they would feel bad that I don't trust in them.)
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