HIspanic Momas ? I need your Help or advise please!

I'm Hispanic. Everything they are saying is old wives tales. Nothing is true and you can continue living your life like you normally would. Hispanics tend to be extremely superstitious. I think it's nice of you that you want them to be involved but also remind them that you are this babys mommy and you got everything under control.

 Thank you!

Quoting lovemyhoney19:

I'm Hispanic. Everything they are saying is old wives tales. Nothing is true and you can continue living your life like you normally would. Hispanics tend to be extremely superstitious. I think it's nice of you that you want them to be involved but also remind them that you are this babys mommy and you got everything under control.

 

I'm Hispanic hubby is white we r expecting. those r all annoying lies. my mother is still trying to get me to drink turtle soup. noooo way. u have to b careful. my mothers annoying suggestions ate part of the reason my brothers marriage was destroyed. ( big mamas boy) make sure u make it clear to ur hubby that this is URs and his child's not his fams. nothing wrong with advice. but advice is optional orders aren't.

I'm married with a Mexican too and his mom told me all this when I got pregnant with our first girl, but I didn't do any of it. For our second, because they are twins, I used the "wrapping my stomach" thing and it worked really good, my stomach went down very quickly :)

Quoting die4u:
I am white and my So is Hispanic (Mexican). I am 30 weeks and 3 days today with our first child together second for both of us. I dont get the luxury of his family being close, they are all located in Mexico City, but they have alot to say about my pregnancy. Which i completely welcome, this child is apart of there family no matter what country we live in and i want our son to know as much about his dads culture as he will about his American culture. My question is this... My MIL and GrandMIL and some aunties on his side of the family are telling him different things that i have to do after and during the pregnancy. Things i've never heard of. Of course i ask my doctor and my doctor is checking out some of them.

After birth i'm suppose to wrap my stomach semi tightly with a belly band or wide wraps to help with weight loss, loose skin, to bring the organs back into place to help get rid of anything inside that should not be there. ..

Going home from hospital i have to be completely covered from head to toe, so no air can get in?... (this one confused me a little)

Has anyone ever heard any of this or done that could enlighten me. I love my SO and his family and dont mind doing things like this if its actually helpful, but again i've never heard this before.

 

Also i realize that this is a cultural thing... does anyone else have anything like this that they were told they need to do during or after pregnancy.

When i was pregnant with my first my mom told me that my great grandmother said that you shouldnt reach over your head because the umbilical cord could wrap around the babies neck. ..

 

 So far they havnt been pushy, and my so told them that its up to me what i want to do, becuase its not something that i've ever heard of. I dont get to talk to them directly, i'm still working on my spanish, they speak no english. So this is all what my so is telling me they are saying. I like that they try to be involved as much as they can, since they are not here.

Quoting pixiedust11:

I'm Hispanic hubby is white we r expecting. those r all annoying lies. my mother is still trying to get me to drink turtle soup. noooo way. u have to b careful. my mothers annoying suggestions ate part of the reason my brothers marriage was destroyed. ( big mamas boy) make sure u make it clear to ur hubby that this is URs and his child's not his fams. nothing wrong with advice. but advice is optional orders aren't.

 

 i've heard it works, i'm still researching it. as is my doctor, if there is no harm and it helps with weight loss i might try it.

Quoting Lizyari:

 

I'm married with a Mexican too and his mom told me all this when I got pregnant with our first girl, but I didn't do any of it. For our second, because they are twins, I used the "wrapping my stomach" thing and it worked really good, my stomach went down very quickly :)

Quoting die4u:
I am white and my So is Hispanic (Mexican). I am 30 weeks and 3 days today with our first child together second for both of us. I dont get the luxury of his family being close, they are all located in Mexico City, but they have alot to say about my pregnancy. Which i completely welcome, this child is apart of there family no matter what country we live in and i want our son to know as much about his dads culture as he will about his American culture. My question is this... My MIL and GrandMIL and some aunties on his side of the family are telling him different things that i have to do after and during the pregnancy. Things i've never heard of. Of course i ask my doctor and my doctor is checking out some of them.

After birth i'm suppose to wrap my stomach semi tightly with a belly band or wide wraps to help with weight loss, loose skin, to bring the organs back into place to help get rid of anything inside that should not be there. ..

Going home from hospital i have to be completely covered from head to toe, so no air can get in?... (this one confused me a little)

Has anyone ever heard any of this or done that could enlighten me. I love my SO and his family and dont mind doing things like this if its actually helpful, but again i've never heard this before.

 

Also i realize that this is a cultural thing... does anyone else have anything like this that they were told they need to do during or after pregnancy.

When i was pregnant with my first my mom told me that my great grandmother said that you shouldnt reach over your head because the umbilical cord could wrap around the babies neck. ..

 

 

 

I'm not hispanic, or have any Hispanic culture, but I can tell u that medically it is proven that if u wrap ur belly after birth, it will help to shrink faster and better. U can buy the wraps for this at Motherhood, BRU, and several other places. :D I wouldn't advise it right away if u have a Csec. I have a Bella band I used at the beginning of my pregnancy and I plan to use that at first. I'm having a Csec and I don't wanna disturb the area too much till about week 4pp.
Gl!
Ps- the rest are old wives tales lol. No proof behind them.

Those are great. I have also her that wrapping is helpful for pulling everything back in.  My grandmother advised my mother to reach above her head and hang from a bar or something like that and it would help pull your ribcage back into alignment. My DH is from El Salvador and wanted me to wrap my DD's legs so that were straight (not bent) to ensure her legs would be straight.  He said it was something his family did and they all had straight legs. I chose not to wrap her legs and they still turned out straight.

I am white and my husband is Mexican he was born there and a lot of his family is still there. I hear some crazy stuff too lol (I don't mean that in an offensive way but some of it sounds crazy to me). I love them and I know they mean the best. I think of it kind of like that our old fashioned stuff here is kind of like how Mexico is now. I don't mean that in a bad way but as far as old wives tales and stuff go. I hear my husbands mom and aunts say a LOT of the same things that my grandma would say too. I have also heard from them about giving birth in Mexico and it sounds the same as when my grandma was giving birth here long ago (with some medical advances taken into consideration). 

I have heard that you should not shower right after giving birth ( heard that from my grandma too). Actually you shouldn't shower for a long time really. Unless you are covered in some sort of oil, then you can shower. 

You shouldn't really do anything much for 40 days after baby is born. This includes house work, shopping, going to other people houses. This is similar to our 6-8 weeks of just taking it easy though. 

No one visits you in the hospital after having a baby (they thought it was really weird when we had our first and asked if they were going to come to the hospital and see her). They also do (or did 10 yrs ago) enemas before giving birth (they use to here back in the day). 

I guess it isn't really crazy stuff and it isn't all that different than here and there was more that I just don't remember and or didn't have to do with birth. It is interesting how different the cultures are. One of his cousins even tried to tell me I was breastfeeding wrong... I had been doing it for months and things were going just fine. 

BUMP!