Customs of Pregnancy and Birth

Concealing the Pregnancy untill the fifth month...Not to Mention the pregnancy in a Pan before the end of the first Trimester... Kapporos for a Pregnant Woman... A Pregnant Woman as Kvatterin or Accompanying a bride... Immersion during the ninth month...Charity...Inspecting the Mezuzos.... Reciting Psalm 20 before Hamapil….Extra Hiddur in Torah Study and Mitzvos

Hanging a Shir HaMaalos at the Home of a New Mother and in the Hospital... Reciting Tehillim During Delivery... The Husband’s Presence in the Delivery Room...

Wach Nacht... Postponing the Bris Even for a Remote Possibility of Danger... Kvatterin... An Expert Mohel... A Sandek for Two Brothers... The Sandek Wearing a Tallis... Should Two Chairs be Set Up at a Bris — One for Eliyahu and One for the Sandek?... It is Forbidden to Circumcise using a “Gomke”... Tearing the Mucous Membrane... Suction by Mouth... Suction using a Tube... Circumcision Under General Anesthesia... Delaying the Bris Until After Minchah so that Many More can Attend — Regarding the Rejoicing... Postponed Circumcision... One Need not Endeavor to Circumcise Twin Brothers at the Same Time when Only One is Healthy... Procedure at a Bris...

In this chapter we present only customs involving the naming of newborn children.Not adopted children, converts, or sick people whose name is being changed
Giving the Name: Precedence of the Father or the Mother... Both Parents Should Agree... Naming a Grandchild After His Grandfather... Name Given by the Parents; A Name Given by Others... The Names Yehuda and Shmuel According to the Testament of Rabbi Yehudah HaChassid... Naming After a Living Person... Naming After One’s Rebbeim...

Relevant Laws... Procedure at a Pidyon HaBen...

The Proper Time for Naming a Girl... Saying “To Torah” Also at the Birth of a Girl...

A Jewish Wet Nurse... Lighting an Additional Shabbos Candle... Making the Child’s Room into a Mikdash Me’at... A Letter in a Torah Scroll...