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# Some poskim write that a pregnant woman should not go to a cemetery.<ref>Minchat Yitzchak 10:42:2, Halichot Bat Yisrael 13:18 </ref> Others are lenient.<ref>[https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/363013/the-expectant-mother.html#_ftn59 Rabbi Yisroel Belsky and Rav Pinchas Sheinburg (Yad Lyoledet 15:25)]. Chazon Ovadia v. 1 p. 313 is lenient for a pregnant woman to go to the cemetery (based on Roke'ach 366, Birkei Yosef 343, Yavetz 2:177). He writes it is only a chumra of some women that they don't go to the cemetery when they are pregnant but they would go to the cemetery for a Yehrzeit so that they don't feel left out. As a proof he cites the Piskei Trumat Hadeshen 132. </ref> | # Some poskim write that a pregnant woman should not go to a cemetery.<ref>Minchat Yitzchak 10:42:2, Halichot Bat Yisrael 13:18 </ref> Others are lenient.<ref>[https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/363013/the-expectant-mother.html#_ftn59 Rabbi Yisroel Belsky and Rav Pinchas Sheinburg (Yad Lyoledet 15:25)]. Chazon Ovadia v. 1 p. 313 is lenient for a pregnant woman to go to the cemetery (based on Roke'ach 366, Birkei Yosef 343, Yavetz 2:177). He writes it is only a chumra of some women that they don't go to the cemetery when they are pregnant but they would go to the cemetery for a Yehrzeit so that they don't feel left out. As a proof he cites the Piskei Trumat Hadeshen 132. </ref> | ||
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# It is permitted for a pregnant woman to go to a zoo. Some say that it is better not to.<ref>Et Leledet p. 55 permits. Torat Hayoledet ch. 65 fnt. 7 quotes Sefer Habrit that a pregnant woman shouldn't stare at non-kosher animals. Also, Lehedabek B'drachav p. 260 quotes Rav Chaim Kanievsky that it isn't a good thing for a pregnant woman to look at non-kosher animals.</ref> | |||
==Kvater at a Bris== | ==Kvater at a Bris== | ||
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2 p. 50-3 is lenient.</ref> | 2 p. 50-3 is lenient.</ref> | ||
# The husband may stay in the birthing room to provide emotional support but he is forbidden to see the actual birth since he is forbidden to see the areas which are usually clothed uncovered when she is a niddah. Furthermore, he may never see the vagina opening of a woman uncovered. It is equally forbidden for the to watch looking through glass.<ref>Igrot Moshe YD 2:75. Darkei Tahara p. 111 seems to assume that the husband can be at the door but not in the room.</ref> | # The husband may stay in the birthing room to provide emotional support but he is forbidden to see the actual birth since he is forbidden to see the areas which are usually clothed uncovered when she is a niddah. Furthermore, he may never see the vagina opening of a woman uncovered. It is equally forbidden for the to watch looking through glass.<ref>Igrot Moshe YD 2:75. Darkei Tahara p. 111 seems to assume that the husband can be at the door but not in the room.</ref> | ||
# Some say that the water breaking doesn't render her a niddah but it has the status of a veset.<ref>Darkei Tahara p. 110. Badei Hashulchan 194:30 writes that the poskim consider a woman to be a niddah after the water breaks. However, Taharat Habayit v. 2 p. | # Some say that the water breaking doesn't render her a niddah but it has the status of a veset.<ref>Darkei Tahara p. 110. Badei Hashulchan 194:30 writes that the poskim consider a woman to be a niddah after the water breaks. However, Taharat Habayit v. 2 p. 54 argues that it doesn't mean she is tameh automatically unless there is blood in the water. He quotes the Mahachavat Hatahara p. 121 in the name of Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach as being lenient. Orot Hatahara 17:14 is lenient according to Shulchan Aruch.</ref> | ||
# If there’s no medical need for the baby or mother, many poskim forbid inducing labor early since it involves putting oneself in danger preemptively.<ref>Igrot Moshe YD 2:74, Taharat Habayit v. 2 p. 54</ref> | # If there’s no medical need for the baby or mother, many poskim forbid inducing labor early since it involves putting oneself in danger preemptively.<ref>Igrot Moshe YD 2:74, Taharat Habayit v. 2 p. 54</ref> | ||
# If the mucus plug falls out there is a major discussion in the poskim if that means that there was a petichat hakever or it is treated like a [[ketem]].<ref>Orot Hatahara 17:16 p. 411</ref> | # If the mucus plug falls out there is a major discussion in the poskim if that means that there was a petichat hakever or it is treated like a [[ketem]].<ref>Orot Hatahara 17:16 p. 411</ref> | ||
