Ellos technique showed the cloak, which is the way that fits the baby that is not in the birth canal, which explains why they have so few cesareasa , noted for his part Gustavo Marin. Punenelchefe .- In the Mapuche community a existe a figure called punenelchefe that accompanies the process of pregnancy and particularly the time of partoa said Azpiroz Clenan. He added: a Al women bear faces east and is squatting and often taken from a tree, or assisted by another woman, to lose strength and help the baby, (baby) a . Also stated that a previo birth is the baby fit vertically so you can go through the birth canal, and massage are used hierbasa . Before birth, as detailed, it is a pelontun-diagnosis or visualization of how the mother is and how it could reach trigger labor.

This makes it a machi machi or that have a supernatural knowledge or pre-logical, as the Mapuche, “that can not be explained logically. In the Mapuche tradition, the-or-machi makes a diagnosis of a delivery through saliva, urine, breath, and that is a mirror of how the child is . And as he said, a despues childbirth is a ritual with the placenta and umbilical cord: they are buried as a way to give back to the natural forces of life. It is a family ceremony agradecimientoa . Azpiroz Clenan said a OESI complications must refer the mother to a hospital, as there is no experience of how tratarlaa .