Tanit, goddess of fertility

Yes autocorrect has produced some real corkers for me. Sometimes takes quite an 'argument' to get my own way!
By the way, I was unable to buy the moonstone earrings I want for my pregnant DiL so have had to order from amazon.
( Just had an excellent example of bossy predictive text - insisting that I want moonshine earrings. As if!)

Mcem, I didn’t. I typed Bhudda, but this wretched machine considers itself more intelligent (don’t even think about it) than me and regularly corrects me.....often corrects me incorrectly. ?

Congratulations Mumsy!!
Health and happiness wishes for baby and mum.
I didn't think you were allowed a 48hr labour either. My first was 3 days mind ...

Congratulations!
Your post did no harm and baby has arrived safely so in a small way, all's well with the world!
(By the way, I don't understand why you refer to buddhist when his name was Bhudda)

Happily the aforementioned baby has now arrived, chubby and cute, after a 48 hour labour.
(I didn’t think it was allowed to drag on for so long these days).
I have put my fertility symbol earrings away, and will keep them at the back of the box for some years to come, and am now hanging bhuddist from my ears.

www.andbeyond.com/experiences/asia/bhutan/punakha/chimi-lhakhang-fertility-temple/

I get your point BlueBelle but Christians and other faiths often have relics, totems and other symbols where earrings could fit.
I had a St Chritopher medallion once which was supposed to keep me safe on a journey and I pray to St Anthony when something has gone missing.
I won't forget about Carthage earrings.
In New Zealand the Maori fishhooks keep you safe and double up for fertility as well.

And definitely not the worship of earrings...!

If I’ve understood correctly bhuddist didn’t consider himself to be a deity and didn’t encourage the worship of deities.

Well she’s not praying to her earrings is she Gramma? ? presumably the Buddhists are praying to there deity just as Christians may pray to their God which seems a bit different

Well a few years ago I was holidaying in Tunis and wanted to visit Carthage, but couldn't because it was considered unsafe after a terror attack. Since then my DIL has had two babies. Coincidence???

I was given a little carved figure of a boy by my mother-in-law when we got married, and 1st baby arrived 9 months later . After 5 children we decided maybe we should hide it and haven't seen it for years. Wonder every now and then where it got too...................?

Is there any harm in having something to pray to?
I know of a Buddhist temple where pilgrims go to pray for a child. The locals refuse to enter as they already have enough children.
Mind you, they used to burn witches not 100yds from where I sit, until the 1700s.

Bluebelle , it’s what my sons called me, as teenagers, when I was worrying to obviously about them.

SueDomin - yes, indeed! ?

When I lived in West Africa I acquired a set of traditional carved fertility figures. Since then, I've also acquired five grandchildren! A-mazing!

Ahh but earrings have no age limits Mumsyface just out of curiosity what is a mumsyface ?

Hi Lemongrove - at 64 that would be a miracle, wouldn’t it!

At 'Ripley's Believe It Or Not' in Blackpool there was a fertility figure of some kind.
People would travel from all over to go there, and thought it was worth a try..

Well Mumsy if you like to think that tourist ear rings from Carthage can do anything magical that is up to you.
Carthage itself didn’t have much luck though did it, just a pile of stones now ( I fell over a stone there, so don’t feel too kindly towards the place)
Now....if you had told us that you were expecting a baby since you wore them....??????????

I quite like the mystical side of fertility.
Did anyone hang a needle on cotton over their belly to 'dowse' the baby's sex?

Bluebelle, you could well be right that’s it’s a load of old tosh ?, and I remember all sorts of things to do or not to do around pregnancy from “the bad old days”!
Nanandgrampy - that sounds like casting a spell on someone OMG!
Anniebach, great idea £££.
Still waiting.....and wearing the earrings again today! ?

Reminds me of the custom of giving brides horseshoes on their wedding day , I had several, they didn’t work !

I thought that said ‘keep on the speed’ ???
As if an earring can make people pregnant the things some people believe in naive or what I remember when very young in an office situation being told that sitting on a certain chair would make people pregnant ?

At its worst mumsyface it's useless but is harmless and not outrageous.

DS and DiL expect their first baby in April and since her birthday is next week I hope to get out today to buy some earrings with moonstones as they are said to be linked to pregnancy and childbirth.
They can't do any harm, are pretty and wearable and as I see it, make a statement that I want to be supportive.

It's absolutely fine and understandable for posters to be sceptical but I do hope the thread doesn't become nasty as so many have over the last few days.
Keep us up to speed please and good luck to all!

???Anniebach love it