How many months should you sit in confinement?

After giving birth, a woman's body is very weak and she needs to recover through confinement. Women can also change their body shape through confinement. Pregnancy and childbirth will bring great changes to a woman's body, especially the uterus. Generally speaking, the traditional confinement period is usually one month, but in fact one month is not enough for a woman's body to recover in a short period of time.

How many days is appropriate for confinement?

The number of days for confinement after childbirth varies in different places. For example, women in the north have to stay in confinement for 100 days after giving birth and cannot go out or touch cold water. Women in the south only need to recuperate for about 30 days. Some mothers also say that the confinement period should be 42 days to be considered complete.

The number of days of confinement mainly depends on two aspects: one is the physical condition of the mother, and the other is the method of delivery. Generally, traditional natural births require about 30 days of confinement, while caesarean sections require about 40 days due to the issue of wound healing.

What are the dangers of not sitting properly during the confinement period?

During the confinement period, you need to rest in bed more so that your body can recover faster. However, some mothers spend very little time resting in bed, often do not get enough sleep or often stand. This is likely to affect the mother's spine and back, so after the confinement period, she will feel back pain as long as she does some work.

My mother still often looks at her mobile phone or computer, which makes her eyes tired or her mind particularly tense. After the confinement period, the eyes will be left with symptoms of frequent tearing and dryness. If you often do housework during the confinement period, such as cutting vegetables, washing dishes or mopping the floor, you have to keep your head down. These housework can easily cause mother to suffer from cervical spondylosis, which will make her cervical spine very uncomfortable in the future.

Also, during the confinement period, I didn’t pay attention to wearing more clothes, which allowed the cold air to enter the body and could not be expelled. After the confinement period, I often have headaches or can't stand the wind, and I am very afraid of the cold. Therefore, mothers must take good care of themselves during the confinement period. They should not run around and should stay at home with their babies more often.