What should I do if my waist gets cold during the confinement period?

After giving birth, women are very weak and need to recover through confinement. If you catch a cold during the confinement period, it is easy to cause back pain. You must protect your waist during the confinement period, especially when the weather changes. You must not let your waist get cold. Usually, back pain can be relieved by massage, hot compress and other methods. Try not to do activities that bend over, and you can do some appropriate waist exercises.

What should I do if my waist gets cold during the confinement period?

1. Move your waist frequently to stretch your waist muscles. If you feel discomfort in your waist, you can massage, apply hot compress to the painful area or take a hot bath to promote blood circulation and improve the discomfort in your waist.

2. Pay attention to keeping your waist warm at ordinary times, especially add clothes in time when the weather changes, and avoid being blown by cold wind, which will aggravate the pain.

3. Pay attention to the combination of work and rest. When you cannot avoid standing for a long time, you can alternately bend the knee of one leg slightly to give your waist a rest.

4. Pay attention to controlling your weight to avoid increasing the burden on your waist and damaging your lumbar muscles.

5. Do not wear high heels too soon after giving birth to avoid increasing pressure on the spine. It is better to wear cloth shoes with soft soles.

6. Learn to relax your mind. Tension will increase the hormones in the blood, which will trigger swelling of the lumbar disc and cause low back pain. A happy mood will help prevent low back pain.

7. Do 2 to 3 minutes of waist exercises after getting up every day, and go for more walks or cycling more often to prevent and relieve back pain.

8. Eat more foods rich in C, D and B vitamins, such as milk, rice bran, bran, carrots, etc., increase the proportion of vegetarian food in the diet, and avoid low back pain caused by osteoporosis.

9. Starting from 2 weeks after delivery, do exercises to strengthen the lumbar muscles and abdominal muscles under the guidance of a health care doctor to enhance the stability of the lumbar spine, such as doing sit-ups.

How to protect your waist during confinement

1. When breastfeeding, new mothers should avoid bending over and hunching their backs. They can use a nursing pad to adjust the baby's height so that the baby's face is close to the mother's chest and adapts to the mother's height and body curve.

2. When holding the baby, let the baby lie in the new mother's arms so that his head, neck, spine and waist can be well supported. When holding your baby while sitting, avoid leaning sideways and ensure your waist is well supported.

3. When changing your baby's diapers, you can prepare a special nursing table with an appropriate height to avoid new mothers having to bend over to change their baby's diapers.

4. Remember to use small tools to adjust the posture of you and your baby at any time. For example, when bathing your baby, you can raise the height of the bathtub.

It is very important to protect your waist during the confinement period. If you accidentally catch a cold waist, you might as well try the above nine methods to help improve the problem. If you find that the effect of using these methods to help improve the problem is still not satisfactory, you can also use physical therapy and other methods to help improve the problem.