After the little stranger has arrived the husband may bring her a jar with warm water from which she occasionally drinks.

He also digs a hole, in which, after he has gone, she buries the placenta, placing stones on top of the place on account of the dogs.

The umbilical cord is cut with a sharp reed or a sharp-edged piece of obsidian, but never with a knife, for in that case the child would become a murderer and could never be a shaman.

I once asked a Tarahumare where he was born, expecting him to give me the name of some ranch; I was rather amused when he pointed to a big stone a little farther on along the slope.

That was his birthplace.
The mother may lie down for that day, but the following morning she works as usual, as if nothing had been the matter with her.