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Baby Rites: 2

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Kate Saunders discovers the importance to Muslim parents of the first words a baby hears.
(For details see yesterday)

Baby Rites (3.45pm R4) is a three-part series concerning the rituals surrounding pregnancy and childbirth indifferent cultures. Today Kate Saunders talks to Muslim parents. As soon as a child is born, the father will gently whisper the call to prayer in the baby's ear, then a date is softened and rubbed along the tiny gums. so that the infant's first taste is of sweetness. (SG)

Source: Radio Times

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