Can I use water from a water heater to take a bath during confinement?

Pregnant women can choose between natural birth and cesarean section. No matter which one, they must wait until the wound is healed before taking a bath. During the confinement period, when taking a bath, make sure you do not catch a cold and pay attention to keeping warm. Do not catch a fever or get a cold. During the confinement period, you can take a bath with water from an electric water heater. Pay attention to the temperature. It should not be too hot or too cold. The water from the electric water heater has no adverse effects on the health of pregnant women.

1. Can I use water from an electric water heater to take a bath during the confinement period?

Yes, pregnant women have weak qi and blood, poor resistance, and are easily harmed by dampness. Therefore, when taking a bath after giving birth, you should pay attention to the appropriate amount of dampness and coldness, and resolutely prevent wind, cold, summer heat, and heat from taking advantage of the opportunity to enter. Pregnant women should choose to shower instead of sitting bath to prevent waste water from entering the vagina and causing infection. Each bath time should not be too long, 15 to 20 minutes is appropriate.

2. What should you pay attention to during confinement?

1. Sexual life must be controlled during the confinement period. If sexual life is not controlled before the mother's urinary system is completely restored, it will cause infection or bleeding, causing serious damage to the mother's body.

2. During the confinement period, mothers should pay attention to supplement nutrition and eat more eggs and drink brown sugar millet porridge to replenish energy and enhance resistance.

3. During the confinement period, you must keep warm and avoid catching a cold. Don't stay at home in air-conditioned areas. Rest in bed as much as possible in the first few days.

4. Two or three days after delivery, you can try to get out of bed and take a walk, do some postpartum gymnastics and other recovery exercises to protect your body. But the time should not be too long.

5. You don't need to work during the confinement period. If you want to make money, you can do some simple work such as cleaning ten days after giving birth. The time does not need to be too long so as not to affect the body's repair.

6. During the confinement period, mothers should pay special attention to cleanliness and hygiene. They should wash their vagina with warm water every day but not take a bath. They should change their underwear and sanitary napkins frequently to prevent bacterial infection.

7. If mothers are exclusively breastfeeding their babies, they should pay attention to breast milk during the confinement period, have a proper diet, and drink fish head soup, big bone soup, etc. when milk is insufficient to ensure sufficient breast milk.