Do Cambodian women steam their hoohas after giving birth?
DT,
It appears that you have gathered all your information from doing a random Google search.
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It appears that you have gathered all your information from doing a random Google search.
And we do know that Google searches often contain misinformation.
Your post is full of shit and disinformation.
You need to improve your research capabilities.
I refuse to go out with nothing more than a whimper followed by a small farting sound and a shit stain on my bed sheets..
Just thought I'd share that with you.
Just thought I'd share that with you.
The most important thing is that the mother and baby have matching hats for months after birth.
This is true,
I have many photos to prove this.
I refuse to go out with nothing more than a whimper followed by a small farting sound and a shit stain on my bed sheets..
Just thought I'd share that with you.
Just thought I'd share that with you.
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Nah mate, a 20/30 year old woman is not like that. Have you ever actually seen any Cambodian women?DevanTracy wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 12:12 pm
The women age very quickly indeed, the reason being that they marry and have children young. A twenty- or thirty-year-old woman is like a Chinese woman of forty or fifty.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
Hope you're all educating your pregnant girlfriends/wives on childbirth, sounds ludicrous to me that you'd just let them carry their ignorant and usually downright dangerous post-natal procedures. It's not confined to Cambodia, but their is a reason infantcide is so high here and other places in Asia compared to the west. Getting into the lake with a newborn? Come on. It's not cute or quirky that "they just don't know better" when you're clearly in a postion and have 9 months to show her youtube videos and have her a bit educated scientifically on the matter. Remember even the dumbest women in the west are required to see mid wives during and after pregnancy.
You think these things are ludicrous? They put big knives under the baby’s pillow to scare away ghosts. They rub tiger balm on infants. They paint big crosses on the baby’s forehead to protect against bad spirits.Guest wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 3:17 pmHope you're all educating your pregnant girlfriends/wives on childbirth, sounds ludicrous to me that you'd just let them carry their ignorant and usually downright dangerous post-natal procedures.
Steaming the vagina, wearing hats and mittens is about as harmless as it gets. Everything related to babies in Cambodia is different from the West.
You either deal with it gently or you end up single. You cannot just educate them out of it. There are too many things. Someone said they put their period blood in the soup to ensure their partner doesn’t cheat on them. It’s not an exaggeration...
Don’t get an uneducated wife if you want an educated one. You won’t educate them.
Do you think the Oknhas are practicing these customs? No they f off to Germany for top class care. It's the same all over Asia. I'm pretty sure if we could, ask our great great grandparents they'd tell us the same shit about the west. Then modern science came along, and we changed. The same is happening in these countries of course, thats why we call it the developing world. But it's their duty if you get your girlfriend or wife pregnant to spend some serious time dispelling half of these myths. Through straight shame if neccessary.Alexandra wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 3:33 pmYou think these things are ludicrous? They put big knives under the baby’s pillow to scare away ghosts. They rub tiger balm on infants. They paint big crosses on the baby’s forehead to protect against bad spirits.Guest wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 3:17 pmHope you're all educating your pregnant girlfriends/wives on childbirth, sounds ludicrous to me that you'd just let them carry their ignorant and usually downright dangerous post-natal procedures.
As for education vs uneducated, there's dumb as a rock 14 year old girls in the west who get guided through childbirth all the time, they aren't left to their own devices. I'm not suggesting teaching a street urchin C++ here Alex. I'm also definately not saying get rid of all the bullshit myths, just the ones that put your unborn child in direct danger.
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These are all old traditions that are no longer ubiquitous. Women here do have midwives and give birth in modern clinics of they can. I've never heard of that rice thing someone described. The only customs my misses observed were the harmless wooly hat thing and the slightly more risky scissors under the pillow.Guest wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 3:17 pmHope you're all educating your pregnant girlfriends/wives on childbirth, sounds ludicrous to me that you'd just let them carry their ignorant and usually downright dangerous post-natal procedures. It's not confined to Cambodia, but their is a reason infantcide is so high here and other places in Asia compared to the west. Getting into the lake with a newborn? Come on. It's not cute or quirky that "they just don't know better" when you're clearly in a postion and have 9 months to show her youtube videos and have her a bit educated scientifically on the matter. Remember even the dumbest women in the west are required to see mid wives during and after pregnancy.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
A lady Onkha or Oknha wife material wouldn’t look twice at most barangs.Guest wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 3:50 pmDo you think the Oknhas are practicing these customs?
Of course if you marry an educated woman it’s unlikely that she’ll steam her vagina and wear an ugly hat for months but those women are not representative of Cambodian women. They are a very small minority.
In that case, if you do marry an "uneducated" woman, perhaps you could instill some knowledge you learned in your privileged life so she doesn't go bathing in the mekong with her newborn?Alexandra wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 4:11 pmif you marry an educated woman it’s unlikely that she’ll steam her vagina and wear an ugly hat for months but those women are not representative of Cambodian women. They are a very small minority.Guest wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 3:50 pmDo you think the Oknhas are practicing these customs?
The point I'm trying to make with the Oknha reference is it isn't exactly culturally taboo to forego these rituals, it's not something you literally cannot reason with a cambodian person about, since Oknhas are of course Khmer, and they don't follow these traditions, not because they are future mary curie's, but because $$ has bought them knowledge.
I agree, and in a relationship with healthy communication that should work but it’s a steep uphill battle with high risk of failure.Guest wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 4:40 pmIn that case, if you do marry an "uneducated" woman, perhaps you could instill some knowledge you learned in your privileged life so she doesn't go bathing in the mekong with her newborn?
In my experience, Cambodians don’t react well to advice given by foreigners. It’s very easy to fall into the “you look down on me and my family” face trap and then it all becomes toxic.
Another problem is that you don’t know their position until it’s too late. I guess you can make discrete comments about other couples and how they do things and fish for a reaction.
Not Cambodia, but in Thailand, my mad Issan wife #2 did that after giving birth. Almost killed me with carbon monoxide poisoning, but her hoohah looked great....Putting a hot barbecue thing under the bed after birth was a common practice till recently, it's still done in places.
anyone got pictures of these women in ugly hats ? cant say i have ever noticed this
Have you never seen a photo of a Cambodian mother with newborn baby? They are pretty much all wearing knit hats.phnim penh wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 8:30 pmanyone got pictures of these women in ugly hats ? cant say i have ever noticed this
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