[SkyDancer]

I have a relative who was stationed in Turkey who told me that when a woman had a baby in the morning she went to work that afternoon. If she had it in the afternoon she didn’t have to go back to work until the next day. These women worked as field hands.

[markomalley]

I have a relative who was stationed in Turkey who told me that when a woman had a baby in the morning she went to work that afternoon. If she had it in the afternoon she didn’t have to go back to work until the next day. These women worked as field hands.

I never saw such a thing in the three years I lived in Turkey. Lived in both Ankara and Istanbul.

Such a thing might be required of the woman's family in some cases, but with the villages I was familiar with outside of Ankara, that wasn't the case. It certainly was not government policy.

[CharlesWayneCT]

But did they carry the baby with them in a sling?

[org.whodat]

I read years ago that the American Indian women, could have a child, when moving camp and catch up with the tribe that night.