Wow just wow, I was just telling my husband about this article and was shocked at what my great-grandmothers words were true. When I was a little girl and a couple of my cousins were born, we had the bris and baby shower at the same time, encouraged by my great-grandmother who grew up in Spain and Italy in the early 1900's. This year she would have been 121 atm had she still be living, she died at 102 when I was 16. Well she stated that Sephardic families always had the baby shower and the naming ceremony after the baby was born for several days because if the Jesuits found out that a Sephardic woman was to have a baby they would steal the newborns and drink their blood. We as kids were like what? But that always stuck in my mind and so I had sprinkles and sip and see's well after both my children were born just as a form of respect of my great-grandmother who admittedly was quite a badass in her own right.
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Wow just wow, I was just telling my husband about this article and was shocked at what my great-grandmothers words were true. When I was a little girl and a couple of my cousins were born, we had the bris and baby shower at the same time, encouraged by my great-grandmother who grew up in Spain and Italy in the early 1900's. This year she would have been 121 atm had she still be living, she died at 102 when I was 16. Well she stated that Sephardic families always had the baby shower and the naming ceremony after the baby was born for several days because if the Jesuits found out that a Sephardic woman was to have a baby they would steal the newborns and drink their blood. We as kids were like what? But that always stuck in my mind and so I had sprinkles and sip and see's well after both my children were born just as a form of respect of my great-grandmother who admittedly was quite a badass in her own right.