At the end of the forty day confinement or the end of the period of pollution, the new mother is to take a sacred bath. This is done in order to ritualistically purify her before she starts interacting with the people around her. The bath is taken with consecrated water and is administered by a priest. This is consecrated haoma juice. This is formally the first drink to be given to the newborn child after birth.
Haoma is supposed to make the child healthy.
Nowadays, however, a sweet drink made of molasses or sugar has substituted haoma .