Re: Churching was: uterine bleeding (was What is my baby doing?)

[Guest guest]

> What is 'churching'?

I have just looked it up in Brewers and it says " To church a woman " means " To

read the appointed service when a woman comes to church to give thanks after

childbirth " . However, from talking about it to my Mum (some time ago so I may

have forgotten more than I have remembered) she said it was some sort of

cleansing service/ceremony which she had to go through after I was born before

she could take Holy Communion again. She said that she didn't like the thought

that she was perceived as unclean and found the whole thing humiliating so

didn't go through it after my brother and sister were born.

Lynda

SAHM to (8), (5), Fraser (3), Callum (15/5/00)

Newsletter editor, Mid-Northumberland Branch

Area Rep, Region 7

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