This tradition is as old as Igbo progress. This is the period when the mother of a pregnant lady comes in to remain with her for the birth and no less than 2 months baby blues.
Her mom (the grandmother) showers the child, does all the cooking, and furthermore washes the new mother helping her back rub the vital zones with high temp water.
In this review, I will diagram 4 Important things that really occur amid this period.
1. The Grandmother (The lady's mom) is vested with the duty of cooking the Ji mmiri oku (Yam pepper soup). This pepper soup is arranged exceptionally with 2 extraordinary flavors called uda and uziza.
In Anambra region, it is called ofe nsala, a light thickener (e.g. a bit of crushed yam) is utilized and is generally eaten with beat yam. The soup is loaded up with dried fish (mangala), stockfish (okporoko) and now and then hamburger.
It is hot and the hot pepper close by the uda and uziza they say is relied upon to enable the lady's body to mend from the worry of labor.
You can envision the huge learning the ancestors had about wellbeing and nutritious nourishment even before the happening to our frontier aces.
2. The new mother isn't relied upon to lift a finger amid omugwo or go outside. She just eats and medical attendants her infant and others deal with the errands,
the purpose of this is to guarantee that the new mother rests a great deal after the entire worry of pregnancy and conveyance.
The vast majority of the ladies put on weight amid this period. The Igbos must be extremely clever individuals they have a very much organized post-natal arrangement.
3. Amid this period, she can't engage in sexual relations with her better half
Now, it's a break on sexual exercises. It is anymore nothing new, as the lady is endeavoring to recover.
This sex strike is fundamental for an appropriate family wanting to maintain a strategic distance from another child with a current one as of now in the blend! How awesome, how the progenitors knew even before medicinal science about family arranging.
4. At the point when the visit is finished, the Grandma will be remunerated
The grandmother or whoever did the omugwo, after the visit runs home with new wrappers, pullovers and a considerable measure of different treats since it's accepted that the new infant has demolished every one of her wrappers with pee and dung.
The grandmother will be compensated widely for her administrations in light of the fact that the man who blows the trumpet should clean his mouth.
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