Fasting on Tisha B’Av for an expectant or nursing mother

 

An expectant or nursing mother who is suffering undue weakness or one who is at a stage of her pregnancy where fasting is deemed unhealthy for her (or for the fetus) and would therefore be considered a choleh—is patur (exempt) from fasting on Tisha B’Av.

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