Çörek and pita (a kind of flatbread, flour tortilla) were a daily bread of Gagauz people in the past. Nowadays these flour tortilla are used as a ritual bread only in some family and calendar ceremonies. The article analyzes semantic, symbolic and functional role of ritual bread (çörek and pita) in the ceremonies of childbirth and the first submission to the public. The ethnolingvistic analysis of çörek and pita nominations is done as well. The childbirth ritual bread is polysemantic; this bread symbolizes destiny, fate, life path, marriage, health, wealth, charm and performs the socialization function, i.e. the function of child adoption to the society and family. Besides, ritual bread performs the protective function (to protect the child from evil ghosts), as well as a function of life path programming, and some other. The childbirth ritual bread and related ceremonies of Gagauz people have close analogies in some Balkan traditions, in Bulgarian and Moldavian traditions especially. This is a good reason to consider the maternity rituals of Gagauz people as a part of Balkan ‘maternity text’.