Female friends who have given birth to children know how weak they are for a period of time after giving birth, and they need a good rest to help them recover. Therefore, in the feudal era when men were superior to women, confinement was actually one of the few rights that women won for themselves.
Although some rules in the month are criticized by modern women, such as not washing hair, not taking a bath, not opening windows, not eating spicy food, not eating cold food, eating more eggs, brown sugar and water. However, when the conditions were not so good before, there was some truth.
There was no air conditioner before, so it was impossible to adjust the temperature. Children are born in the season that is too cold or too hot, and they are all in pain. The parturient has just given birth to a child, and her body is weak and her resistance is poor. If she blows, she will catch a cold easily.
In terms of diet, eating cold food may catch a cold, and eating spicy food is not conducive to physical recovery. In fact, it's not just confinement, illness or surgery. Doctors usually tell them to eat light food and eat less spicy and overweight food.
Of course, I don't think it is necessary to have the same rule when confinement is allowed. For example, you can't take a shower and wash your hair.
To tell the truth, the month is generally 30 days, and you can't take a shower and wash your hair within one month. I really can't hold it anymore. Maybe when my physical condition really didn't allow me, I could insist on not taking a bath for ten and a half months. If your body permits, you must take a bath, otherwise you will smell of sweat and milk, which is not only unbearable for yourself, but also terrible for your baby.
It is even more impossible not to wash your hair for thirty days. I have oily hair. I usually start to get oily after washing my hair for one day at most. It looked a little dirty, and then it began to itch, but there was little hair. When your hair is dirty, it looks disgusting. I can't stand it at all. It is even more impossible to wrap your head in a towel. I think I'll go crazy.
So in the second month, except for the first three or four days, I was really hard to move. After a few days, I began to wash my hair myself and then dried it with a hair dryer in time. After washing, I feel refreshed. Take a bath every ten days after giving birth, but it should be fast and not for too long, because although it is a natural birth, it really feels that the wound will crack after standing for a long time, which is not conducive to physical recovery.
Those remarks that foreign women don't need confinement and are not as melodramatic as women in China are actually wrong. Although there is no such thing as confinement abroad, people have a puerperium, which is longer than confinement, usually 42 to 56 days, and is used for the adjustment and recovery of maternal body, reproductive organs and psychology. Although the regulations to be observed in this puerperium are different from those in China, they should all be based on the health of women.
If you don't sit on the moon after childbirth, you will definitely leave a moon disease. My mother-in-law often told me that her confinement condition was not very good at that time, and her grandmother asked her to fetch water. When drawing water, she has to throw some stones into the well, so there will be no health problems. My mother-in-law said that her hands, joints and waist always hurt. I guess she didn't have a good confinement at that time.
Decades have passed, and people who have never sat for a good month are still fresh in their memories, and they have indeed left a moon disease. When I was confined to the moon, I once bravado and moved cold water, and my hands and joints were very painful. What effect does postpartum confinement have on the body? Everyone is different, and the degree of injury cannot be estimated, but it must be done.
Chinese medicine believes that in the process of delivery, the qi and blood consumption in the maternal body is very large, and it usually takes 6-8 weeks to recover, so it is necessary to rest by confinement to ensure future health.
Modern medicine regards the period within 6 weeks after delivery as puerperium, and it takes at least 6 weeks for the uterus to return to the pre-pregnancy level.
In addition, during pregnancy, the fetus keeps growing, the maternal visceral activity and load increase, and the endocrine system and joints have undergone great changes. Without confinement, these changes will recover very slowly.
During childbirth, the mother spent a lot of physical strength to give birth to the child. Women's own physical strength is insufficient, and their resistance will also decline. It is necessary to recover physical strength and increase resistance by confinement.
During childbirth, the stomach capacity of newborns is usually small, and they often wake up to eat during the day or at night. This situation makes mother exhausted, and if she doesn't rest, it will inevitably affect her health.
1, joint pain
During pregnancy, pelvic ligaments relax under the action of endocrine hormones. Do not sit on the moon, do not pay attention to rest, see cold water, etc. It may cause joint pain, such as hand joint pain and low back pain.
2. Internal organ prolapse
If you lift heavy objects too early and engage in heavy physical labor, it may damage tendons, ligaments and muscles, and may also lead to problems such as uterine and visceral prolapse.
3. Other diseases
If you don't sit on the moon, some pregnant women may have other physical problems, such as perineal injury, puerperal fever, acute mastitis, postpartum lactation and so on. Then it is necessary to analyze the specific problems.
In short, confinement is very necessary, and not confinement may cause some health problems, so it is better to be cautious!
I'm afraid "confinement" only exists in China, and it is deeply rooted and cannot be refuted.
When you want to wash your hair, take a bath, cut your nails, brush your teeth, etc. The older generation will say, "It's worse than these days to wait until the full moon!"
I will ask her, what is the difference between 30 days and 3 1 day?
She said: I don't know, there is always a truth handed down from the older generation.
I said: now people say that it will take 42 days to be confined! You weren't right then!
She will say: that's still 42 days, you have already taken care of it!
I ......
If you have said that you are "short of children" every month, others will definitely say that you are a "lever".
What does traditional confinement include?
Clothing: fully armed, wear as much as you can, and even more frightening is to tie your legs to prevent the wind from entering your legs.
Food: eggs, brown sugar, eggs, brown sugar, ......
Live: The doors and windows are closed and airtight.
Ok: don't think about going out in the second month.
So what's the impact of not confinement? (the idea of the older generation)
Short-term effects: physical weakness
Long-term effects: arm pain, leg pain, back pain, cough, osteoporosis.
I can understand weaknesses, I can understand. Even after a few days of headache and fever, I will be very weak, not to mention the baby, especially the mother who has a caesarean section or massive bleeding.
But I can't understand where it hurts, such as low back pain. Some people say that this is postpartum failure, and I don't know where to start!
The older generation said don't have cesarean section, don't be painless, anesthetic is given through the waist, and you will hurt your back when you are old.
Some people also say: you can't sit for a long time in the next month, or you will have a backache when you are old.
Others say: February is cold, and getting old will hurt your back.
But will this really happen? I'm afraid you won't know until you are old!
Although the custom of confinement handed down from the older generation cannot be scientifically proved, not all of it can't be used. Maybe they are really afraid that they will ache all over when they are old, or they want to be a good daughter-in-law. My mother-in-law will never harm you.
Hello, I'm mother Kong, and I'm glad to answer this question.
In fact, whether to "confinement" after childbirth should be the most controversial issue between many young mothers and the older generation. Then, after giving birth to a child, do you want to sit on the moon? Will it affect your body if you don't sit down? Here we can first understand several concepts:
We all know that "confinement" is a traditional name in China, but the postpartum recovery period is not unique to China, and foreign mothers also have a stage of postpartum recovery, which is medically called "puerperium".
This stage is indeed a stage of women's physical recovery after childbirth. Although there are not as many complicated regulations for confinement abroad, the main related matters still need the attention of postpartum mothers.
For example, postpartum attention to personal hygiene and cleanliness, dietary problems, postpartum wound healing and recovery, all need to pay attention to puerperal rest and nursing.
Many of us old people like to simply attribute the mother's physical condition in the process of taking care of the baby in the future to "the disease of falling in the moon."
In fact, this statement is indeed very one-sided. Postpartum physical recovery is indeed related to the puerperium. If the puerperal rest and recovery are not good, it will really affect the health of postpartum mothers, but it is not absolute.
For example, the postpartum mother has a heavy burden and needs to look after the baby alone most of the time, so it is inevitable that there will be back pain or elbow problems over time, which has nothing to do with "confinement or not" and "confinement is good or not", because holding the baby for a long time will inevitably lead to problems in this regard.
Finally, to sum up: postpartum physical recovery can not be summarized by confinement, but mothers still need to pay attention to related care and rest during the puerperium.
I am an empty mother-parenting is a tedious and long-term thing. May we work together to make children and parents better and better.
Postpartum confinement has a certain influence on the body. The confinement period is a critical period for physical recovery. If you don't take good care of your health, you may get sick. My cousin didn't sit well after confinement, and now her heels are numb when she walks.
Many mothers envy that women in western countries don't need confinement after giving birth, and think confinement is the characteristic of China. But in fact, with the improvement of cognition, many foreign women began to follow the custom of confinement in China. I have a friend who got married in France and gave birth there. According to her, although there is no confinement, you should have a good rest. Their postpartum welfare is even better than our country. Women's life pressure is small, and husband and wife are basically raising children together.
During childbirth, qi and blood failure in the body takes some time to recover. Medically, 6-8 weeks after delivery (each parturient's physical recovery is different) is called puerperium, and confinement for 30 days is only the pre-puerperium stage until 8 weeks after delivery. It is recommended to take good care of yourself, which is the key period for the recovery of internal organs, secretion system and uterus.
The mother of caesarean section should cut a hole in her stomach, and if she doesn't sit on the moon after delivery, the wound recovery may not be ideal, and it hurts and itches when it rains on cloudy days. Most natural mothers need lateral incision, so they also need rest to help the wound heal. Try not to do heavy physical labor to avoid secondary tearing of the wound.
Before labor, the body will secrete relaxation hormones to help the fetus pass through the birth canal faster. After giving birth to a baby, the hormone level in the body takes some time to recover, and in the second month, the bones, joints and teeth in the mouth are loose. At this time, if you eat according to the usual diet, the maternal body can't bear it, and it is difficult for the teeth to bite the food. It is generally recommended that the food in the month be as soft and mild as possible, which is suitable for the physical condition of the parturient.
If you don't sit on the moon after delivery and don't pay attention to your health, you may have joint pain, backache, visceral prolapse, and some mothers may also have insufficient breast milk, mastitis, puerperal rash and so on.
Nowadays, parenting pays attention to science, and so does our confinement. I don't lie down every day, don't wash my hair and don't take a shower. If you give birth in a private hospital or a better hospital, the nurse will take you to wash your hair before leaving the hospital.
First of all, the diet follows the "clear adjustment and supplement". In the first week, clean up the lochia in the body, and the diet should be as light and digestible as possible, such as noodles, egg soup and porridge. Both are suitable. In the second week, I need to recuperate. You can gradually increase the intake of milk soup, but try not to be too greasy, which will help to regulate your body. Third, nutrition needs to be supplemented around, and the loss to the body during childbirth is relatively large, so it needs to be supplemented at this time.
Secondly, pay attention to personal hygiene. You can also take a bath and wash your hair when you are confined, but it is best to be accompanied by your family to avoid sudden syncope. Natural mothers can take a bath one week after delivery, and caesarean mothers need to decide according to the recovery of the wound. If you can't take a bath, it is also recommended to wipe it every day to keep your body dry and clean.
Finally, keep a certain amount of exercise. During confinement, mothers are also advised to keep a certain amount of exercise, such as abdominal breathing, walking and levator ani exercise. These videos can be found on the Internet, and you can follow them.
Tip: Adjust according to your physical condition. The second month is suitable for moderate and low intensity exercise, and it is not recommended to be too intense.
In short, confinement after childbirth is still very scientific. However, there is no need to follow the rules of the elderly. It is best to sit on the moon scientifically and restore health.
Healthy women don't need confinement.
Only unhealthy pregnant women need confinement.
For example, some girls give birth in the toilet, throw them away and turn around and go back to work.
There is a little brother in a four-S shop in Shenzhen. One day, he heard the baby singing in the car pile and saw a newborn baby lying on the ground crying. He quickly reported to the leader. Just as they were about to take the child away, a woman came outside and said that the child had just been born. Of course, the clerk didn't believe it, so she had a big fight with them. When she called up the monitor, she saw her rushing in and squatting in the middle of the car, less than 30 ".
[People who need confinement are malnourished because of poor health. If they don't take good care of themselves after giving birth, they will have accidents and even die. ]
Hello, I'm glad to answer your question. It has become an inherent cultural custom that women left behind by our ancestors must have confinement after giving birth.
With the progress of society and the popularization of popular science, many bad habits of confinement are gradually abandoned. Scientific confinement, bathing, washing hair and brushing teeth are no longer binding on lying-in women, and they are no longer absolute bed rest. Paying attention to moderate exercise after childbirth is very beneficial to the recovery of postpartum body.
In traditional customs, we attach importance to confinement because we are afraid of falling behind the root cause of postpartum diseases. For example, back pain, or hand pain or leg pain. In fact, as long as the child is too tired, these problems are prone to occur both in and out of the month.
Chinese and western women have no confinement, but their constitutions are different from ours. Western women are relatively easy to give birth in pelvic cavity, and their eating habits are different from childhood, so there are not so many taboos.
However, after ten months of pregnancy, the various systems of the body were overloaded for 280 days. After the child is born, it is still necessary to rest properly and raise interest, but there are not so many taboos.
The so-called confinement is mainly to recuperate and let the body recover as soon as possible. Traditionally, almost no one can do it now, and there is no need to say it.
I hope my answer can help you!
After giving birth to a weak child, you must take good care of yourself and have a good rest in the second month. If you are not careful, you may get sick, which may affect your life.
In ancient China, confinement was called "within one month", which was an act of self-cultivation and spiritual cultivation after delivery. It has a history of thousands of years. So most parts of China have the habit of confinement. What's the effect of giving birth to a baby without confinement ~ ~ Then let's first understand the effect of giving birth to a baby on mothers ~
First, mothers' bones will change.
After pregnancy, the baby will gradually increase in the body, which will increase the load on the pelvic floor muscles of mothers, and the spine and lower limbs will also bear greater pressure. In order to alleviate the oppression, our lumbar vertebrae, coccyx vertebrae and sacrum vertebrae will change to varying degrees.
Secondly, mothers' moods will change.
Because of the influence of hormones after pregnancy, most treasure mothers will have mood swings and sensitive minds, and they can't help crying because of a little thing. Some serious people are in a bad mood and bad temper.
Finally, other changes.
Such as hair loss, posture change, diet change and so on.
Therefore, confinement is a period of time for Ma Bao to recover his body and relieve his mood. Similarly, if you don't have confinement, it may lead to the following problems:
First, after giving birth, the baby does not pay attention to rest, and it is easy to cause joint pain after contact with cold water.
Second, doing strenuous exercise after giving birth to a baby is not conducive to ovarian recovery and internal organs moving back to their original positions.
Third, if you don't pay attention to diet conditioning after giving birth, it will cause insufficient milk, lack of body nutrition, no taboos, and like to eat cold ice cream, which will easily lead to deficiency and cold, and the body will not recover easily.
We are physically different from westerners, so we still practice scientific confinement according to tradition. Proper exercise, attention to ventilation, reasonable diet, breastfeeding ~ excellent mothers make excellent babies ~ ~ ~
This kind of thing about confinement comes from a real exposition of a baby mother, and I hope it can inspire me after reading it:
Originally, I was also a modern young woman with higher education and critical thinking. Before that, I always sneered at confinement and thought it was purely feudal dross until I gave birth to my own baby.
Before pregnancy, I was a serious fitness dog, BMI 18. 1. I have never been sick or experienced pain since I was a child. My body is great and delicious. Stay at home during pregnancy, go out to buy food, go home to cook and mop the table every day, and even massage my hard-working husband. I did everything. I walked to the maternity check-up, drove until September of pregnancy, and was expected to be hospitalized. I was in pain for 4 hours and went into the delivery room for half an hour to give birth to a baby weighing more than 7 kg. I should be in good health, right?
But after giving birth, I was devastated. After giving birth to the baby, lochia began to discharge. Simply put, it is to discharge the residual tissue on the uterine wall like menstruation. This process takes about a month, including bleeding for at least a week. Most of the pregnant women I attended were bleeding for more than 20 days, repeatedly. I have been bleeding for about 20 days.
After giving birth to the baby, I began to sweat all over. This is because my body drained the water accumulated during pregnancy, and I lost 20 pounds when I left the hospital on the fourth day. I left the hospital and went to the Confucius Center. Yue Yue asked me to wear long-sleeved trousers. I don't think so. I still feel cold until the air conditioner is turned on to 26 degrees. In order to avoid joint discomfort, I wore long-sleeved trousers and slept under a quilt. Every time I lie down and get up, as long as I get up a little harder, I get dizzy and I have to bend down to hold the bed right away. I've never done this before.
The above is the macroscopic situation of the body. Speak slowly.
1. Wound. I have a side cut and a severe tear. The lateral cut is about 3 cm, and the tear is about 2 cm. I can't sit still for a month. I have to stand when eating, feed when lying down, and lie down when I don't eat or pee. The wound is disinfected three times a day and baked by infrared lamp three times. Unfortunately, I don't absorb stitches at all. It hurts to go to the hospital to have stitches removed twice in the second month. Failure to heal for a long time is collapse. I cried for it at least three times. It is not an exaggeration to say that you are a literal and realistic person. The natural birth wound is just a flesh wound, so caesarean section needs more rest.
2. Pelvic floor muscle dysfunction. First of all, it is difficult to urinate. During those days in the hospital, it took me ten minutes to pee every time. Sitting on the toilet, I can't pee, and I'm sweating all over. You can only shit with kaisailu, otherwise the wound may be stretched when you push it hard. Until now, my urine is not so normal, and it takes dozens of seconds to brew. Secondly, I can't stand for a long time. I took a bath standing for 20 minutes. From the urethral orifice to the anus, I am falling, swollen and painful. I feel that the wound is going to collapse again, and I have to lie down to get better. As for me, I have been doing Kegel exercise since before pregnancy, and I don't leak urine after delivery. I am still like this. I don't know how hard it must be for those who leak urine.
3. breastfeed regularly. The feeding frequency is about 12 times a day, 10 times during the day and twice at night, because my baby is an angel baby. Drink a lot of water and soup every day, but my lips are still chapped, my hair is withered, my nails are not long, and my nutrition is gone. The baby is very good and never cries or makes trouble. I put on eye cream seriously, but I still can't resist eye bags and dark circles. It takes more than half an hour to milk twice at night, because it takes time to suck out excess milk to prevent milk blockage. Lack of sleep is obvious, but I am not serious.
4. uterine recovery. The uterus should recover from that size to be smaller than a fist. It won't recover quietly on its own, it depends on contractions. Contraction is stimulated by the child's breastfeeding. Every time a child eats milk, he will see that the uterus suddenly hardens, and the lower abdomen bulges with fists, which are hard and hard, accompanied by pain and bleeding. It will sink back to the pelvic cavity from the lower abdomen, and it will take more than half a month. This process needs rest and nursing, otherwise there will be a series of troubles if the uterus does not recover well, such as affecting the next pregnancy.
As for why you can't wash your hair, see the wind, have no hair dryer, air conditioner and heating, the fact that pregnant women are generally nutritious still makes sense. Because it's best not to catch a cold. The wound will split when you sneeze with a cold, and it will split when you cough. If there is no wound, a cold will make mother sick because she is too weak. You can't eat cold and spicy food, because you may have diarrhea and the diarrhea wound may crack. . . Cold food is easy to breed bacteria, and eating diarrhea may also make the mother sick. . . And it may affect breast milk, making it impossible to breastfeed your baby. No breast milk means affecting contractions, uterine involution and maternal physical recovery, so it actually makes sense. Of course, the body is really great and the conditions are good. Mothers who believe that they will not catch a cold and can guarantee not to eat food contaminated by bacteria can ignore it. Like me. I washed my hair and took a bath for a week, and I kept blowing air conditioning, but I used the windshield. It is important not to get sick.
Confinement is called puerperium in the west, and Baidu Encyclopedia is attached below.
Puerperal period (the traditional "confinement" is only the first 30 days of puerperal period) refers to a period of time for the maternal body, reproductive organs and psychology to adjust and recover after the delivery of fetus and placenta, which takes 6-8 weeks, that is, 42-56 days. During this period, lying-in women should rest mainly, especially stay in bed within 0/5 days after delivery, take good care of their bodies and promote the recovery of various organs, especially reproductive organs.
In order to adapt to the development of the fetus and prepare for delivery, great changes have taken place in the reproductive organs and whole body of pregnant women. After delivery, through a series of changes, the reproductive organs and the whole body (except breasts) will return to the state of non-pregnancy. This physiological change takes about 42 days to complete. After the placenta is delivered, the parturient enters the puerperium. During this period, the parturient's breasts should be lactated, the uterus should be restored, and the various systems of the body should gradually return to normal, such as reducing excess blood volume through perspiration and urination; Increased gastric acid. Gastrointestinal tension and peristalsis recovered, and digestive ability returned to normal; Women who are not breast-fed or partially breast-fed may have menstrual cramps. In short, the puerperium is a period of gradual recovery of multiple systems including body shape and abdominal wall.