Calling it a bando-typically a headband in Haitian Creole ( bandeau in French)-she wrapped it around my belly to help me regain my posture and reshape my waist... I felt that I was being tied to the women in my family, those who had come before and those yet to come.
Sometimes she needed help tightening it, and, at her request, I would fasten the scarf over the spot where she believed her uterus to be... She groaned through her body's memory of pre-labor, crowning, and the final release of birth.
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