ABSTRACT
The aim of this research is to study the pregnant mothers attitude towards fables related to pregnancy, delivery and the care of new born a sample taken from kalyobia and Assuit governorate. The motive beyond applying this study is what researcher notice through their interaction with pregnant women in the department of caring of pregnancy women in the hospital. They notice the spreading of fable thinking among them, and how they use it in handling with every aspect concerning their life. This fable thinking has abad negative impact on people roles in social life, which prevent the society from achieving economic, social, and health growth. The sample is composed of 200 pregnant woman in their first trimester of pregnancy, and it was divided into 50 illiterate housewives from upper Egypt [Assuit], and the same from Delta [Benha]. Other 50 are educated wives, and they are employees from upper Egypt, and the same number from Delta [Benha]. Some variables were fixed [age- economic and social rank]. The samples were chosen random from ante-natal chinic in Assuit university hospital and Benha university hospital. The tool of search was interviewing schedule to measure the trends towards fables. It's divided into two parts. The first one is composed of fables related to pregnancy and delivery. The second one, is related to the caring of newborn the form was filled in by researcher and it would take for 30 minutes to 15 minutes for two days weekly and alternately to each hospital. The rate of cases reaches 5 cases weekly from each hospital. The study started from the first of January, 2003, till the end of September, 2003. the result of the present study revealed the publicity of fables are increased more among the percentage of pregnant woman heared the fables related to pregnancy and thought that it's right educated woman in Assuit, 9.12% illiterate woman in Benha 36.96%, educated woman in Benha 37.12% and illiterate woman in Assuit 46.48% and it become clear at level 0.001. the current study emphasizes the importance of working on changing this fable thinking in the subject of study. This shows the important role of mothers, who are raising and caring of children. This was driven from these negative trends, which could have a negative impact on mother, child, and family sociology to prevent the inheritance of these negative trends, from generation to another