Ritual services in the past were performed for the three gods governing childbirth. First, the pregnant woman prayed to the gods. Straw was then spread in the delivery room and she wore a black skirt to prepare herself for the delivery. The umbilical cord was cut with scissors or a sickle and then wrapped in paper to be burned or buried in the ground. After the baby was born, the sacred rice straw rope, kumjul was hung high across the front of the door. For a baby boy, peppers, charcoals and pine leaves were put into the rice straw rope whereas only charcoals and pine leaves were used for a baby girl. It was customary for only close family members to enter the maternity room from seven to twenty one days after the delivery.
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