Blessings for Birth

Something that has become a new thing to do for a pregnant woman is to hold a 'Blessingway' in place of a baby shower. Traditionally a "Blessingway" was a Navajo Ritual Ceremony that as very special. Today it is more often than not an extension of a baby shower, or is just a baby shower by another name, without giving thought to the actual Special/Spiritual Ceremony that it was meant to be.

In another blog she wrote about "Blessingway's" and about special blessings that were given by and to LDS women in the earlier years of the Church History.

http://rixarixa.blogspot.com/2009/04/lds-blessing-rituals-for-childbirth.html

In her Blog Rixa tells a bit of how it was sort of done away with in the mid 1900's. I wonder if some of this wasn't in part because Birth in general was being taken out of Women's hands, and lives, and was increasingly moved into the Hospital setting, where women were shut away for birth, adn taken away from their Sisters, and society... as such the Blessing of Women By other Women became a thing of the past as well.
Just my thoughts...