You nearly.
You want.
I know, but I just she would though. Wait so you you go. put in the. She
says during the time that they have the arranged. Navajo traditional
wedding before they um uh eat the cornmeal out of the Navajo basket, they
all the relatives and family are there. They prepare them with speeches,
and they prepare them with long talks of how they're going to live life
and have family and children and the road ahead of them, what they should
be expecting. And she said, even though they didn't know each other as the
days went went along, they got to know each other, they started talking. I
thought
it's um but.
you know as it's all.
And she says they got closer and closer and they helped each other. And
Then comes along the kids, you know, the, the father has to prepare the
cradleboard for the child. And the father loves the child very much, and
she, you know, the love grows as they have children, more children
together. We lost my dad 30 years ago, and she says to this day, you know
, she misses him and she loves him, he's the only one that she was ever
with. The song is the English and then uh. Uh, so in.
Maki.
Uh.
Mhm.
The other some is even that is Chigo that's even in the others either so.
Oh, that is on,
um. Being brought up traditionally and her knowing only tradition, they
didn't have no knowledge about the hospital. Back then she was taught and
she was told because her mom and her aunties had children like that where
um the male would make a birthing pole that they would put in the hogan,
they would have they would lay a sheep sheepskin down under them. The sash
felt. They would tie onto the birthing pole that I was telling. She said
that they put up a birthing pole. And this they tie up to the birthing
pole and they will hold onto that. So they wouldn't lay lay down, they
would actually just kind of squat and hold that and somebody would come up
, the mother and grandmother would come up behind them and every, every
time they have a contraction, the mom or grandma, whoever is doing that
would push on the tummy. And um that's how they that's how the baby fell
fell out, and then they put the baby onto the sheep, the sheepskin that
was lying there and they put the placenta and everything there. After the
baby is born, then they push out the placenta again, then they put that
there. So that
that's that's the school. And then it got the
uh.
Yeah it just yeah.
And And then she says at the time, you know, they have a medicine and
they're singing songs. Um, for the Um, I guess it it while she says it was
a big a sacred. Um, time for everyone. After the baby is born, they they
they wash the grandmother or mother um wash the baby, her son Henry. When
the baby falls out, she was told, once the baby cries out, they they tell
her if it's a boy or a girl, and then they tell her, you know, say welcome.
Um, my son or my daughter.