Practices and traditional beliefs around puerpera in the regions of Ecuador

Abstract

This research is supported by the need to analyze specific cases of the different practices and traditional beliefs that are carried out in puerperal women in the regions of Ecuador. A research method based on a bibliographic review or exploratory description was used, having a qualitative approach, in which; For the collection of information, an exhaustive search of the most relevant concepts on traditional practices and beliefs was carried out. The results of the present show us that there is a great variety of practices, knowledge and customs that have been carried out from generation to generation with the purpose of keeping alive all the ancestral and traditional customs in relation to puerperal women, a great majority of these customs have their ideology based on religious-spiritual thoughts, which consider women as the center of everything, which group the mind, body and spirit, and by encompassing all this, they are the main axes in altering, what which generates not only damage to the woman, but also to the mother-child relationship, from the moment of fertilization.