Ceasar1: ^^ As much as I want to reason with you, I keep getting puzzled every time I re-read your post.

joanne1: Hi evryone, I do wanna know ur tots on dis issue. My Mum says d water used in bathing an infant wld b used to bath his/her immediate older sibling. Hw true is dis and why?

joanne1: Hi evryone, I do wanna know ur tots on dis issue. My Mum says d water used in bathing an infant wld b used to bath his/her immediate older sibling. Hw true is dis and why?

joanne1: Hi evryone, I do wanna know ur tots on dis issue. My Mum says d water used in bathing an infant wld b used to bath his/her immediate older sibling. Hw true is dis and why?

onirugbon1:

3 posts since 2010? You feel embarrassed to open this topic with your other moniker abi?


1. Never heard of it before, dosen't make sense to me

2. It could be peculiarly your family's traditional belief and rites...but such should have been abolished because its unhealthy, keeping water in one spot for years. If it doesn't dry up, it would become an abnormal and infested water.

3. Maybe you didn't hear your mum properly. You may go back and ask again

4.

Godmystrength: I don't think that is what she is saying. Maybe after giving birth to a baby and the baby is bathed, the bathing water of the new born baby will now be used to bath his/her immediate elder sibling. That's what i understand from her post. I could be wrong sha.

onirugbon1:




You mean the dirty soapy scum water? kept for years and used again on another innocent child? Not in Nigeria. Our ancestors were not that wicked. Atleast, not my yoruba ancestors

Tallesty1: Did you mother fly away after saying that? Why didn't you ask her?

Godmystrength: You don't get it. bath the new baby and now use the water to bath for the elder one. AT least it is assumed that the new baby must have an elder sibling (egbon). More like when you finish bathing omo ikoko, you now say oya come here o Onirugbon1(as the elder brother of the new baby) and have your bath with this water that your aburo just finish bathing with

Yomieluv: I read fast,I didn't comprehend the whole thing,I read slow,still didn't get..the more I try to decipher what you wrote there,the more I get irritated..what if the woman didn't give birth again?

onirugbon1:


ooohhhhhhhh I see. The Op didn't explain it that clear now. Ok it fairer but still dirty and unhealthy.

Hehehehehe Godmystrength, you have the qualities of a good tutor.

Tallesty1: Did you mother fly away after saying that? Why didn't you ask her?

ideee03: Or what if the infant was the first child? foncused

joanne1: Hi evryone, I do wanna know ur tots on dis issue. My Mum says d water used in bathing an infant wld b used to bath his/her immediate older sibling. Hw true is dis and why?

snazzylove:

Yes. Was told the same thing too. Reason is that it will prevent the older one from falling sick. Superstitious though.

Chillisauce: Go and read read about basic personal hygiene , then you teach your mother.
This is not the best place for you to do that. Take your home economics book and get to work.
Poor children.

Godmystrength: She kuku explain but na you no farabale. immediately you saw bathing water, new baby, elder siblings, you went

joanne1: Hi evryone, I do wanna know ur tots on dis issue. My Mum says d water used in bathing an infant wld b used to bath his/her immediate older sibling. Hw true is dis and why?

joanne1: Lmao @ all posts so far, well lemme elaborate, I still dnt get either, she says its an old tradition and I'm like she's not gonna try dat for mi kids, also hv asked other people around (even frm different tribes as am frm d estern part of dis country) and dey gv d same answer. Nw d only thng I can understand frm d answers given is dat it makes d younger one to respect d older one more. Buh still am confused too dats y I came on here to ask mayb sme1 here can shedd more light on d issue

onirugbon1:

hehehehehe not my fault. Her posts can have any of the 2 such meanings at the first read.

Godmystrength: then maybe they will bath the daddy or mummy with the water o. It must not waste. They (mum and dad) can even share it. So that the baby can respect his/her parents very well.