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In the old times women had to work hard in the kitchen and in and around house as the families wiere bigger considering joint familes and no machines or maids to take cre of your daily chores. may be temple was far from their house with very minimal chance of transportation. So once the woman gives birth to child she has to stay in bed and not work or touch food things just for the sake of rest and getting infections from others which can be passed to an infant
This was my grandma's explanation I was always the curious one and asked my grandma when she asked me not to touch my aunt when she had a baby the tradition was made so that women get rest as women always had to work in the house while men go out and earn The whole idea was to lessen their work and give them more rest. Because after the delivery of the baby woman's body needs rest. it was like for 20 days you can not touch any body the reason here is the infection as the hospitals and houses were not steralized like modern times and germs can pass thru mother to the baby.Infact women used to stay for a week or 10 days after normal deliver and in cesarean or othe compication womens stay was 15-20 days. I remember in my case i was hospitalized saturday morning and gave birth to my son saturday evening and Monday morning around 11 am I was in my own bed at home. So in total I spent like little over 2 days of hospital stay. That is how times have changed.
Traditions were not made to consider woman inferion after they give birth to a child. or demening a woman in any case. it was purly based for the convinience of woman right after pregnancy.
In Sp it has taken wrong meaning and also in today's age it is not wise to follow certain traditions as we have now sterilized places with less dirt better medicines and saloni is not a laborer who had to do so much of a physical work.
Sooner she gets back to her routine the sooner she will recover.
so such tradtion is impractical in modern era.
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