History, Archaeology, Ethnography
The women in the Caucasus mainly used to deliver at their homes, though the facts of exterhal deliver were also observed which is thought to have. Its own reason a women is thought to have been a magician, had to be shunned, as she. She lept trying to deliver without being evil-eyed. A women usually delivered on the straw heap. Very important was the Institute of widwife.
The Caucasus abounded in the customs connected with newly born babies.
The Caucasians considered a child born with a lucky sheart heppy. It‘s the same a child born with a silver spoon lucky. A child was bathed in wine to make him healthy, was wrapped in salt; during bathing a child was subjected to some exercises and all these exercises were aimed to make the child healthy.
Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University