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Pregnancy believed to be a phase in which the prospective newborn baby has begun to interact with the surrounding environment through the mediation of the mother. Psychic relationships between mothers and children were already deeply intertwined from this phase. For the Javanese, the pregnancy is part of a human life cycle. Therefore the existence of the potential baby is always celebrated by the Java community with a ritual called Mitoni.

Mitoni itself comes from the word pitu or seven. This is because Mitoni held when the age of seven months in the womb. This ritual is intended that candidates are always babies and mothers get salvation. There are a series of ceremonies performed in Mitoni, as a symbol of cleansing, entering range chicken eggs into the fabric of the future mother of her husband, change clothes, put young ivory palm, cut yarn / twist yarn / young coconut leaf, break the pot and bucket, drinking herbal medicine shove, and nyolong endhog (stealing eggs). Ceremony was believed to be a procession of danger and peril expulsion from the mother and potential child.

Mitoni ritual laden with symbolism. Cleansing ceremony, for example, is a symbol of cleansing for all the crimes of the father and the mother of the prospective child. Meanwhile, put chicken eggs into the fabric prospective mother is the embodiment of hope that the baby could be born without significant barriers. Entering the young coconut into the ivory sheath from the prospective mother's abdomen into the lower is the symbol for nothing gets in the way that prevents the birth of the baby.

After that expectant mothers would be changed into a motif fabric 7. The guests were asked to choose the most suitable fabric with prospective mothers. While termination yarn / twist yarn or young coconut leaf conducted after the turn of the cloth is still meaningful to the birth went smoothly. Convolution must be settled by the husband. Bucket or pot solution implies that when later the mother was pregnant again, expected pregnancy went smoothly. While taking herbal ceremony shove (push) means the baby could be born very quickly and smoothly as were pushed (encouraged). And last, stole endhog or eggs, is a manifestation of the desire prospective fathers to the birth process moved quickly, as fast as a thief who steals.

To do Mitoni, should be chosen that day really good and a blessing. Javanese people have a special calculation to determine a good day and the days that are considered poor. In addition, Mitoni usually held on the afternoon or evening. Is considered a good day is Monday morning until night and Friday afternoon until Friday night.
Mitoni not be done in any place. Once the usual Mitoni pasren or place for farmers to worship the Goddess Sri, the Goddess of prosperity for the farmers. However, given today's very rare pasren, then Mitoni done in the living room or family room for a room large enough to accommodate many guests. The oldest family member is often believed to lead the implementation of Mitoni.

After conducting a series of ceremonies, the guests who attended were invited to pray together for the sake of future mothers and their babies. Not sure after that they will be given the blessing to take home. Thanks to it usually contains rice and side dishes complete.