Introduction to Postpartum Recovery after Caesarean Section

How can you become a mother as soon as possible after a caesarean section and maintain physical health and mental happiness? How can you recover after a caesarean section? Considering that the physical conditions after natural childbirth and caesarean section are different, and each pregnant mother's delivery method is also different, we specially distinguish them so that we can adopt a more appropriate method.

Within 6 hours after cesarean section:

1. Lying posture: Mothers who return to the ward after surgery need to lie flat with their heads tilted to one side and without a pillow. The reason for lying flat without a pillow is that most cesarean sections use epidural anesthesia. Lying flat without a pillow after surgery can prevent headaches. At the same time, lying flat with the head tilted to one side can also prevent aspiration of vomitus.

2. Place a sandbag on the abdomen: Sometimes the nurse will place a sandbag on the abdomen of the parturient to reduce bleeding from the abdominal wound.

3. Breastfeeding in time: When the baby is hungry, the nurse will give him to the mother, and the mother must feed the most precious colostrum to the baby. This is an experience worth remembering, for your baby and for yourself. The baby's sucking can also promote uterine contraction, reduce uterine bleeding, and make the wound heal as soon as possible.

4. Fasting: Fasting should be done within 6 hours after surgery. This is because surgery can easily irritate the intestines and inhibit intestinal function, slow down intestinal motility, and cause gas accumulation in the intestinal cavity. Therefore, there will be a feeling of abdominal distension after surgery. To relieve intestinal bloating, do not eat for a while.

In order to allow the baby in the belly to absorb sufficient nutrition and grow healthily, pregnant women follow the principle of "one person eats, two people supplement". They put aside the previous dietary concepts of abstaining from food for fear of getting fat, and try to eat more "supplementary" foods in the hope that the fetus can get enough nutrition. Therefore, weight gain is an important and obvious physiological change during pregnancy. In addition to the weight of the fetus, placenta and amniotic fluid, the mother herself also undergoes some changes due to endocrine changes.

Because from the ten months of pregnancy to delivery, the body has been seeking stability and safety, and basically no exercise is done, for fear that the slightest movement will disturb the fetus. Therefore, after delivery, timely exercises should be performed on the chest, abdomen, and legs. The exercise at this time should be gentle, mainly based on steps, and avoid jumping movements (because the joints are looser during breastfeeding, you should control the movements that put load on the joints when exercising).