Baby shower on the weekend - stitches?????

I went to a baby shower in Gaborone on the weekend. I don’t attend many of these. It was slow to begin with but then things started heating up.

Especially when it was time to give advice to the mother to be, one girl stood up and talked about “ditichi , gatwe unna mometsing alitswaye guitela diphola, agutshamikiwe”

Well she was talking about stitches you have to sit in salty water 3 times a day for three days, and you’ll be as goog as new. I was literally blown away. Afterwards me and my friend were exclaiming that this was the first time we had heard something so explicit at a baby shower, and how come some of these things are not common knowledge, I’d like to know. I think really shouldn’t we be talking about such things more.

So now I have a few questions
Has it always been done this way?
Do we all have to do it this way?
How do other cultures do it?
AND FOR HEAVENS SAKE WHAT ELSE SHOULD WE KNOW ABOUT?

n-way I’m gathering some more infor on pregnancy practices in Botswana, so I guess I’ll keep you posted its gonna be interesting

I mean to all you metro African mantombazana - what gives?