How long after giving birth can I take a bath?

After giving birth, a woman will enter the confinement period. This process is very important. In addition to paying attention to taking care of her body, there are many details in life that need to be paid attention to, especially avoiding contact with cold things, which can easily cause confinement diseases. However, it is definitely not okay to go without a bath for a long time, and I am very concerned about the time I can take a bath. So, how long after giving birth can you take a bath? Let’s take a closer look below.

If you really want to clean your body, you should boil ginger peel water to wash your body in the third week after delivery. Elderly people say that using dried ginger peels to boil water for bathing and washing hair can relieve headaches. Most Chinese medicine practitioners also agree with this method because ginger has the effect of dispelling wind. However, to use this method, you must start preparing at least three months before delivery. Store the ginger peels from each cooking and boiling pork trotters with ginger, and dry them. Otherwise, it will not be enough for daily bathing and washing hair during the more than 30 days of confinement. If you are afraid of the trouble of storing ginger peels, you can use lemongrass instead. Hakka people do not use ginger. Postpartum women use lemongrass to boil water for bathing, which has the same effect of dispelling wind as ginger.

What should mothers pay attention to when taking a bath after giving birth?

1. Be sure to keep warm and avoid contact with cold water to avoid abdominal pain, irregular menstruation, body pain, etc. in the future.

2. Control the indoor temperature well, it is better to be hot than cold. Postpartum bathing must be done in a wind-proof room, and the bathroom should be warm. You can turn on bathroom heating equipment such as bathroom heaters in advance and adjust the indoor temperature to 20℃ before entering. The water temperature should be around 37℃ or slightly hot. The bathing time should not be too long, 5 to 10 minutes is appropriate.

3. After delivery, you must take a shower, not a sitz bath.

4. Avoid sweating profusely when taking a bath after delivery, as excessive sweating can easily cause dizziness, stuffiness, nausea, etc.

5. After washing, wipe off the water on your body as soon as possible, put on warm clothes in time and then leave the bathroom to avoid catching cold or being blown by the wind. Blow dry your hair immediately after washing, do not sleep with wet hair, and do not braid your hair before it is dry, otherwise it will easily cause cold air to enter your body.

6. Choose a shampoo with less irritation. You can massage your scalp with your fingertips. Dry your scalp promptly after washing and wrap it with a dry towel to prevent the evaporation of wet hair from taking away a large amount of heat, causing the scalp blood vessels to suddenly contract after being stimulated by cold and causing headaches.