They say to her, O felix puerpera, nostra piaris scelera!. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord's Prayer] Reference
De more macrum Vir - go puerpera Tcmplo Itaiutos abfti - nuic dies. From Wordnik.com. [Diurnale Noviomense. ad usum regalis ecclesiæ S. Quintini accommodatum. Pars hiemalis (æstiva).] Reference
Anglia magnarum foecunda puerpera rerum, siue solum spectes nobile, siue salum. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01] Reference
The Waswaheli and Nyassa give the puerpera food highly seasoned with Cayenne pepper and other spices. From Wordnik.com. [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference
It is a custom throughout Annam that the puerpera must take a medicine consisting of a decoction of laxatives and purgatives. From Wordnik.com. [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference
Among the Kanikars the puerpera receives as a tonic for the first day a kari (ragout) seasoned with turmeric pepper and tamarind. From Wordnik.com. [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference
The Kalmucks feed the puerpera mainly on broth during the first days, giving her but very little mutton, the quantity of meat being gradually increased. From Wordnik.com. [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference
In Japan, the puerpera is not placed in the usual recumbent position, but sits propped up by pillows, the mat upon which she was confined being left in place. From Wordnik.com. [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference
The knife with which the umbilical cord has been cut is not used for common purposes but is left beside the puerpera until the "Chilla" (fortieth day), when "Kajjal". From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
This practice is kept up for a period of three or four days, when the puerpera is thought to be well; the prescribed walks varying with periods of rest upon her couch. From Wordnik.com. [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference
As soon as possible after delivery the puerpera is placed on a bed on the floor of the lodge, and securely wrapped in blankets, or whatever kind of covering they have. From Wordnik.com. [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference
This idea of uncleanliness clings equally to the puerpera during the continuance of the lochial flow, and, remarkable enough, in a different degree to the lochia rubra and alba. From Wordnik.com. [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference
In the second period, during the white flow, the puerpera was obliged to remain at home for thirty-three days for a boy and sixty-six days for a girl baby, but was no longer considered unclean. From Wordnik.com. [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference
This frequent resort to fire seems to arise from an instinctive idea to protect the puerpera from cold, but it certainly is beneficial in so far as it allows her a certain period of rest, and may it not hasten uterine contraction and prevent hemorrhage?. From Wordnik.com. [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference
With regard to the first period the puerpera should be as unclean during the time of the bloody flow as she is during the menstrual flow, and this period after the birth of a male child is fixed at seven days, but after the birth of a female at two weeks. 3. From Wordnik.com. [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference
It is evident enough why the ancient Israelites considered the puerpera unclean during the first days after childbirth, but it seems difficult to explain why this uncleanliness should have lasted seven days after the birth of a male and fourteen after that of a female child. From Wordnik.com. [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference
Similar beliefs existed among many ancient people: in Athens the puerpera was considered unclean, and whoever touched her was forbidden to visit an altar; even the midwife who was present at the confinement was obliged to perform a religious cleansing of her hands at the feast of the Amphidromies, when the new-born child was carried about the family altar. From Wordnik.com. [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference
Some, with whom I have come in contact, require the puerpera to keep up on her feet during the greater part of the day -- taking short walks about the camp, resting when weariness becomes oppressive; while walking she uses a staff, for the double purpose of support while upon her feet, and also as an instrument of relief; as she slowly steps about the body is frequently bent forward, bringing the abdominal walls immediately over the uterus against the upper end of the staff, while the hand of the woman is upon the end of the stick in the same way as that of a man walking with a cane. From Wordnik.com. [Labor Among Primitive Peoples] Reference
Verbo creavit filium 5. Enixa est puerpera. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
Salve, sancta Parens, enixa puerpera Regem. From Wordnik.com. [27 July -- Bl Titus Brandsma, O. Carm.] Reference
And thus the case of the Nazirite, as well as those off the puerpera and the leper, seems sufficiently reducible to the notion of sacrifice here "fcid down. From Wordnik.com. [Discourses and Dissertations on the Scriptural Doctrines of Atonement & Sacrifice, and on the ...] Reference
Salve felix Virgo puerpera. From Wordnik.com. [The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book] Reference
Virgo puerpera. From Wordnik.com. [27 July -- Bl Titus Brandsma, O. Carm.] Reference
Enixa est puerpera. From Wordnik.com. [Chivalry] Reference
Edidit H E N R I c XT M genebunda puerpera regem. From Wordnik.com. [Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent] Reference
"Sponsa suae prolis, O Stella puerpera Solis. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference
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