Black Heaven

Steppan(Mitoni)

Happiness will never fade for parents who are waiting for the presence of the baby. Moreover, a mother-to-be, even though the state of her body undergoes major changes, be it physically, mood, mind and appetite. All of that feels dashed when the fetus that grows in his womb starts to move and grow well.

Intan also experienced that. Lately he looks happy because the fetus in the womb began to actively move. The content enters the age of seven months, the stomach was already seen bloated. Intan looks more contained because his appetite began to rise, his cheeks also look more fluffy.

"Mas ... Here Mas!" Intan was very enthusiastic when he felt a kick in his stomach. He called Aji who was playing with Izza—putri Ninis on the carpet in the living room.

A happy face is clearly visible on Aji's face when his hand feels a throbbing in his wife's stomach. Several times he rubbed the part to cause movement from inside his wife's stomach.

"What are you doing inside? I can't wait to see Dad and Mom, yeah" whispered Aji on the side of Intan's stomach. Aji often does this—talking alone near the wife's stomach.

The couple forbade doctors to tell the sex of the baby. They want to know it later when giving birth, two names have been prepared Aji. One male name and one female name for her child later.

"Well, Dad and Mom are you here?" tanya Aji while turning her eyes towards Intan.

"So, Mas! tomorrow afternoon may have arrived here, he said in the hotel first," said Intan with a view that can not be separated from Aji.

After a short conversation with his wife, Aji returned to accompany Izza to play. He let Intan sit on the couch watching him play. Ninis and all the other family members are busy preparing for the event that will be held tomorrow night in this house.

Because the content of Intan is seven months old, then ummi Sarah and Kyai Yusuf held a ceremony or commonly called windowpan(mitoni). It is a tradition in this area, women who are pregnant with their first child will do a window event as usual. Sometimes there are those who perform the ritual complete with a flush and change clothes seven times.

Intan himself can't help anything for his show tomorrow night. He was forbidden ummi Sarah to do any activity that makes him tired because ummi Sarah is very worried about something happening with the content of her favorite daughter-in-law.

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The Next Day ....

Study of the Qur'an since morning has been held. The event was completed before the Ashar prayer. Some distant relatives have been present in the house of Kyai Yusuf including the family from Tangerang. All preparations are done. Various dishes have been prepared for the invited guests who will attend later.

"Sorry Mi, I want to ask .. I just saw someone making a sweet potato and steamed cassava, what is it for, Mi?" asked Ms. Leni, her foster mother Intan was curious about eating boiled used as a delivery.

"if here the name is polo pendem Bu, if there are mitoni people like we do today would make polo pendem as a complement. It's tradition here that you make fruit sticks and polo pendem at the window," ummi Sarah looked at the iron while showing what was prepared.

Pendem polo is a kind of food of boiled or steamed tubers such as .. yam, cassava, taro, peanuts, kapri beans, gembolo, pumpkin etc. Most of the Javanese definitely include this at the time of mitoni and make a new home.

"if you may know why you should include polo pendem yes, Mi?" ask Mrs Leni again.

"I don't know for sure either, Mom. If according to my mbah uti first time he ndongeng, he said 'seng asale soko weak must return maneh ning weak' (which comes from the ground will return to the ground)" said ummi Sarah, "after I digest maybe this pendem polo is symbolic of one of the human elements, namely the land" continued ummi Sarah.

Time passes so quickly. One by one invited guests began to come to attend invitations from Aji right after the prayer isyak. After all the invitations were present, the event started immediately.

An hour had passed, and now came the last event, prayer. The prayer reading was led directly by Kyai Yusuf himself, all the invited guests were not voiced until the event was over. The event was closed with the breakdown of two gadhing cloves (young ivory coconut) which were broken directly by Aji—it was one of the traditions in Java during the window.

All members of the family of Kyai Yusuf and some relatives gathered in the living room after the invited guests came home. Intan was sitting next to Kinar and Bu Leni, they were busy talking to ummi Sarah and Ninis. Several times Intan rubbed the stomach because of movement from inside the stomach.

"Eh Komodo! what do the doctors say, what kind of guy is a girl?" whispered Kinar while rubbing Intan's stomach.

"gue doesn't know, Piranha! I'm the same Mas Aji deliberately did not want to know the gender of the baby I bear, so surprise so," replied Intan with a soft voice, his smile expands just like that when staring at Kinar.

Kinar clucked, in fact he was very curious about his future nephew. He wants to prepare a special gift if the baby is born later.

The mitoni event has been running smoothly without any obstacles. Aji was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief after the event was over. After this it is only to prepare for the birth of her first child in two months. Hopefully, there are no obstacles until the child is born later, that's how Aji's current expectations are.

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Thank you for reading this work, hopefully like 😍😍 if there is a less suitable explanation about mitoni and polo pendem, please comment yak²but do not care😀 yes, high othor stomach acid nih<TAG1>****if you are curious about polo pendem, you can check google yak😀

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