What are the taboos during confinement?

Every woman needs to sit in confinement after giving birth. This period is very important for the mother. It is the best time for the body and uterus to recover, so it is necessary to pay attention to maintenance. The mother who sits in confinement should not be exposed to wind or cold. She should eat more foods that replenish qi and blood and foods with high protein content. If you don't pay attention during the confinement, the body will be left with sequelae. So what should be avoided during the confinement?

When a woman is giving birth, she experiences tremendous energy consumption both physically and mentally. The bleeding and trauma during childbirth consume a lot of physical strength and blood. The confinement period for new mothers is a critical recovery period after delivery. Since the mother's body is relatively weak, she needs to supplement relevant nutrients through diet to promote physical recovery during the confinement period. Different delivery methods also have different requirements for postpartum diet. The key point is whether the mother's body can recover. The diet during the confinement period cannot be arbitrary. Therefore, in addition to adequate rest, proper conditioning and a reasonable diet after delivery, it is also very important for mothers to recover quickly.

In other words, the diet of a postpartum woman should be nutritious and easy to digest. She should not eat raw, cold, spicy or greasy food, otherwise it will easily damage the spleen and stomach and cause other diseases. An egg is released from the ovary once a month, 14 days before your menstrual period. After women become pregnant, their periods stop and they no longer ovulate. After a period of time after giving birth, they will start ovulating again and start menstruating again.

Generally speaking, normal ovulation will resume two months after delivery and menstruation will begin again. The ovulation period is also called the safe period, and generally speaking, pregnancy will not occur. But in fact, the safe period is not necessarily safe, so you should still be fully prepared.

If proper contraceptive measures are not taken, women may become pregnant unexpectedly, which is something that no one wants to see. If an unexpected child is born, it will also be a heavy burden. If an abortion is performed, it will cause great harm to the pregnant woman's body. Ovulation time returns to normal between two or four months after delivery, so parents should pay more attention during this period.

For new mothers, their bodies will become weak after delivery, so they should take good care of their bodies and replenish their bodies during the confinement period. In addition to eating more protein-rich foods, they should also eat more coarse grains and fruits. This will be more conducive to recovering the body, restoring body shape, and helping to restore ovulation time to normal.

Myth: Stay in bed and get out less often

After giving birth, women are weak and need more rest. However, there is a limit to rest. Some family members urge mothers to stay in bed as much as possible and not get out of bed and walk around. In fact, this is not conducive to postpartum recovery.

The scientific way is that the mother should lie down or sit in bed as much as possible on the first day after delivery, and be able to get out of bed and walk appropriately on the second day after delivery. Getting out of bed and walking around can help mothers move their legs and feet and avoid venous thrombosis. Lying in bed for a long time after childbirth is actually not good for women's physical recovery and uterine recovery. In order to promote the discharge of lochia from the uterus, women should also get out of bed and walk around appropriately.

3. Is it forbidden to watch TV or read books during the confinement period?

Some new mothers want to use the time of confinement to read some books and learn some knowledge to pass the lonely days. However, many elderly people will advise that reading during the confinement period can easily cause new mothers to suffer from vision deterioration.

In fact, the impact on the eyes of new mothers reading books and watching TV during the confinement period is no different between the postpartum and non-pregnancy period. It’s just that the fatigue of ten months of pregnancy and childbirth, coupled with postpartum breastfeeding, does make new mothers very tired. Therefore, new mothers need sufficient rest during the postpartum period to recover from the changes in their bodies, while at the same time they have to breastfeed their babies. However, the baby's schedule is different from that of adults, which will affect the new mother's rest.

Of course, in order to maintain the mental state of the new mother, you can reduce the time watching TV and reading, and try to rest at the same time as the baby. This is a good way to make up for the mother's lack of sleep. As for reading, you can recharge yourself and study after your baby is one month old.