Fire lady

I mentioned before that the custom here is that after a woman has had a baby
they are incarcerated for a week or so in a hot steamy room in front of a
fire. In this hot climate you can imagine that this is quite an ordeal.
Today I visited the lady who runs the shop up the road who just gave birth.
This is the third time I have encountered this treatment. On one occasion
the lady was actually on a bed over the fire!! This time I had my camera
with me and was able to get some photos. It was very dark and difficult to
photo. As always there were 5 or 6 people in the room with her, relatives,
friends or visitors. The large pot over the fire in the centre was full of
boiling water and the one on the left had I think bark of some sort in it
which was kept topped up presumably to aid healing. Waree was under great
pressure to undergo this treatment when she had Adam, but as her specialist
was not too keen on the idea she refused and has been as fit as a fiddle
since, but there have been dire warnings that not using the treatment will
cause here problems later in life. Waree did however bath herself in the
bark water.