21 January is a day for expressing gratitude to doctors and midwives who bring new life into the world, and to the grannies and elderly women who once helped would-be-mothers give birth. The Day of Maternity Care (Babinden, derived from the word baba, grandmother) was declared as such in 1951, and has since then been the professional day of all people working in obstetrics and gynaecology.
In many parts of the country, especially in villages and small towns, the “grannies” get together with their grandchildren to celebrate the day, with reenactments of the rituals from long ago.
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Compiled by Darina Grigorova
Translated and posted by Milena Daynova
Photos: BGNES
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