BIRTH-THE POSTPARTUM PERIOD REGARDING TRADITIONAL APPLICATIONS OF WOMEN IN RURAL AREAS: THE EXAMPLE KARAKSI / KIRSAL ALANDAKİ KADINLARIN DOĞUM-DOĞUM SONU DÖNEMLE İLGİLİ GELENEKSEL UYGULAMALARI: KARAKSİ ÖRNEĞİ

This study is made in the rural province of Hatay has the traditional social structure, because it contains different ethnic and cultural elements , which has a rich cultural mosaic. Research where he held ( formerly Village) Karlis the neighborhood ; 5 km from the center of Antakya, Hatay with a population of 6000 people and 400 digits and is an ancient settlement. This research about pregnancies birth and the postpartum period have been made in order to reveal traditional practices against mothers and newborn. The survey is not made to be descriptive sampling is planned to include all women who volunteered. In the study with 40 women of different age groups were interviewed face-to- face. Some of the traditional practices of pregnancy; placing the cooked onions into the vagina, uterus puller, parsley is inserted into the vagina in the form of the content prepared. Postpartum traditional practices for psychological problems are putting knife ,scissors or bread under the mother’s pillow in confinement. In the postnatal period, cracked nipples and navel care was found to often used olive oil. Traditional practice for the treatment of diaper rash, it should be noted that white soil and oil is used. In view of the limited number of resources that conducted the study that to the limited extent known, and it has been found to apply related traditional practices of women and newborns on postpartum period extending from pregnancy. Besides that the knowledge of the inhabitants of Karlısu use most of the herbs and herbal productsto cure can be used in daily life is confirmed