What is confinement?

Confinement means that pregnant women spend a month or more after giving birth to rest. Week 1 week:

Breast: The new mother will not secrete milk until 1-3 days after delivery.

Gastrointestinal tract: the gastrointestinal tract begins to "return", but it takes some time to restore its function.

Uterus: The uterus will gradually become smaller, but it will take at least 6 weeks to return to the size before pregnancy.

Lochiorrhea: From the first 1 day after delivery, the new mother will discharge something similar to menstruation (containing blood, a small amount of fetal membranes and necrotic decidual tissue), which is lochiorrhea.

Wound pain: The wound is painful, and the anesthetic effect gradually becomes stronger after it subsides.

Week 2:

Breast: milk secretion is smoother.

Gastrointestinal tract: Gastrointestinal tract gradually adapts to the postpartum situation, but it is not suitable for very greasy soup and food.

Uterus: The position of uterus keeps declining, and the uterus gradually becomes smaller, about the size of a baseball.

Lochiorrhea: Lochiorrhea is obviously reduced, and its color changes from dark red to light red, which is a little bloody but not smelly.

Wound and pain: After lateral cesarean section, the wound will still feel dull pain within one week, but the intensity is not as strong as the first week.

Week 3:

Breast: The breast becomes fuller, the swelling feeling is also reduced, and the milk is getting thicker and thicker.

Stomach and intestines: appetite has returned to the past, and hunger often occurs.

Uterus: The uterus has basically contracted and returned to its position in the pelvis.

Persistent lochia: The persistent period of white lochia lasts for 65,438+0-2 weeks, when lochia does not contain blood.

Wound and pain: there is no obvious pain in the lateral perineal incision, but there is occasional pain in the inner side of cesarean section wound.

Week 4:

Breast: Increased milk secretion should prevent acute mastitis.

Gastrointestinal: Gastrointestinal function basically recovered.

Uterus: The uterus has generally recovered, so you can do some postpartum gymnastics.

Lochiorrhea is endless: white lochiorrhea is basically discharged and becomes ordinary leucorrhea.

Wound and pain: there are signs of spread of class marks.

Week 5-6

Breast: prevent breast sagging, pay attention to breast hygiene and prevent infection.

Stomach and intestines: completely adapt to postpartum diet

Uterus: The uterus shrinks to its original size and the cervix closes again.

Lochiorrhea: Lochiorrhea disappears completely, and some non-lactating mothers begin to menstruate.

Wound and pain: The wound has basically healed.

Puerperal period, that is, the first month after giving birth to a baby, is confined to taking care of the baby in the house. Lying-in women stay at home and rest, commonly known as "confinement" in China.

I once read a sentence: confinement is a group of people doing things that torture you for your own good.

Confinement is a traditional custom of lying-in women in China, and 42 days to 6 months is the golden period of postpartum recovery. At this time, the postpartum body is the most fragile, and all physical indicators are in a state of serious imbalance. If qi and blood are not recovered during this period, the residual toxins cannot be effectively removed, and it is easy to delay and deteriorate into various diseases.

Basic principles of confinement for lying-in women

1. Avoid cold and cold

Maternal women should wear long-sleeved trousers to avoid catching a cold or catching cold. Do not touch cold water. Don't blow the fan in summer, and the air conditioner can't be blown directly.

Step 2 avoid making up for big problems

Diet should be light, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, not blindly tonic, drink brown sugar for about a week, 4-5 eggs a day is appropriate, avoid eating hens in the early stage and eat more cocks.

Work and rest

Moderate exercise and rest are very helpful for the discharge of lochia, the recovery of bones and muscles and the recovery of the body. Avoid standing and sitting for a long time.

Diligence and cleanliness

Wash your hair and body frequently, keep it clean, avoid bacterial infection and inflammation, but make sure the water temperature is appropriate, don't take a shower, blow dry your hair with a hair dryer after washing, brush your teeth in the morning and evening, and remember to rinse your mouth after meals.

Postpartum confinement must be scientific and not blindly follow the tradition. The good confinement method of the older generation can be adopted, and the bad one must be abandoned in time.

With regard to postpartum care, many novice mothers have little knowledge and can only listen to the arrangements of the elderly at home. In fact, many nursing concepts of the elderly are outdated or impractical, so don't follow blindly! Today, Sister Yu will tell you about eight misunderstandings that new mothers often make after giving birth. Come and have a look ~

1. Do not open doors and windows.

New mothers can't blow directly, but it doesn't mean they can't open doors and windows. Closing doors and windows will hinder indoor air circulation and lead to a large number of bacteria, which is very unfavorable to maternal and child health. So always open the window for ventilation, but please pay attention to keep warm and don't stand at the tuyere to blow.

Lying in bed for a long time

Many mothers stay in bed for a long time after giving birth to their babies and rarely get out of bed. In fact, long-term bed rest is not good for physical recovery. It is not only prone to postpartum constipation, but also increases the risk of uterine prolapse. I suggest you get out of bed properly, which can speed up blood circulation, promote uterine recovery and make your body better.

The third step: make up.

Some mothers feel that giving birth to a child is very exhausting, and they should make up for it when they are in confinement. However, Yu Jie wants to remind everyone that tonic should pay attention to the scientific balance of nutrition, and you can't eat big fish and meat and various nourishing soups every day. In addition, everyone should eat more fruits and vegetables, not too greasy, to avoid postpartum constipation.

Don't wash your hair

The old man said that "you can't wash your hair in confinement" has a historical reason. The house where I used to live had poor warm-keeping measures, and my mother was weak after giving birth, and it was easy to catch cold and get sick when washing her hair. But now people's living conditions have improved. As long as you do a good job of keeping warm, it is generally no problem to wash your hair in the next month.

Hold urine

Many mothers, especially those with lacerations in private parts, would rather hold their urine than urinate normally for fear of pain and touching the wound. Actually, it's not good for your health. Everyone should urinate in time after delivery, which is conducive to physical recovery. If urinary retention occurs, the inflated bladder will adversely affect uterine contraction, resulting in slow postpartum recovery.

Get rid of yourself immediately

Some new mothers start to lose weight immediately after giving birth to their babies, either dieting or exercising a lot. In fact, if you want to lose weight successfully after childbirth, you must first let your body return to normal. Blindly losing weight may hurt the body and make it more difficult to recover.

7. Use the wrong sanitary towel

You need to discharge lochia after delivery, and you must use qualified sanitary napkins. It is recommended to buy sanitary napkins of big brands. Even if lochia gradually disappears, everyone should always change sanitary napkins, keep private parts clean and hygienic, and avoid infection.

8. Sleeping together too early

Although I haven't had sex for a long time, it's not appropriate to have sex too early after delivery, so I should put health first. If the body recovers better, Yu Jie suggests that it is more appropriate for everyone to share a room two months after delivery. Please remember that premature and violent sexual life is not good for postpartum physical recovery. In addition, you must take contraceptive measures in the same room after delivery ~

It can be said that confinement is a traditional custom of China people. The first month after a woman gives birth is called confinement. China people are very particular about confinement. For example, they are not allowed to go out, catch cold and cold, eat cold food and spicy food, even wash their hair, and watch TV. In fact, these practices are not scientific. The so-called confinement, which only exists in China, can only represent the folk custom of a country and has no theoretical basis. In fact, it is a normal physiological process for women to have children. Besides strengthening nutrition, reasonable diet and combining rest, they don't need special treatment.

What is confinement?

Confinement refers to a month's rest for pregnant women after delivery. From the perspective of sociology and medicine, confinement is a key period to help pregnant women successfully pass the physiological and psychological turning point in life.

Maternal health is greatly damaged after delivery, and it takes a period of aftercare to fully recover, so confinement is very necessary.

So what should you pay attention to when you are confinement?

1. Pay attention to rest and exercise properly.

Rest is the top priority of confinement! Be sure to rest at home after delivery, pay attention to sleep, don't make yourself too tired, but also be careful not to lie in bed for a month. Usually on the second day after the baby is born, the mother will walk around and exercise, which is helpful for postpartum recovery. Doing necessary physical exercise and some postpartum gymnastics in the second month can restore your physique and body shape well.

Keep a good mood

Due to the physiological changes after delivery, the maternal spirit is relatively fragile, and postpartum depression may occur. Therefore, it is necessary to maintain a happy atmosphere at home, especially for husbands to be considerate of their wives and give them spiritual and life support.

3. Reasonable diet, balanced nutrition, and no less fruits and vegetables.

A few days after delivery, the lying-in woman is very weak, and needs to restore her physiological function, while taking care of breastfeeding. Therefore, it is necessary to supplement her body with enough calories and various nutrients, and at the same time, it is necessary to consider the gastrointestinal function that has not been fully restored, and the diet should be light and balanced.

4. Pay attention to personal hygiene

From the second day after delivery, women can comb their hair, brush their teeth, gargle, take a bath and wash their hair as usual.

It is generally best to take a bath and wash your hair after one week after delivery. Pay attention to shower washing when taking a bath to prevent dirty water from flowing into the vagina and causing infection. Keep the time at 10 minutes, dry the water as soon as possible after washing, put on warm clothes in time, and then walk out of the bathroom. Bathing in winter must be sheltered from the wind in the secret room, and the bathroom is warmer. You can turn on the bathroom heating equipment such as Yuba in advance and adjust the indoor temperature to 25-28.

Avoid sex.

After the trauma of pregnancy and childbirth, it takes about two months for the pregnant women to fully recover their reproductive organs. It is best for the parturient to judge that the body has fully recovered through postpartum examination before starting sexual life, and take contraceptive measures within postpartum 1 year to provide time for the comprehensive recovery of the uterus.

6. Can I open the window and turn on the air conditioner?

Spring, summer, autumn and winter are all fine all year round, but in hot summer, it is very easy to cause heatstroke in women, which is not good for postpartum recovery. In order to prevent heatstroke, the parturient should not be confined to confinement in summer. Opening the window for ventilation is the best way to dissipate heat and reduce the ambient temperature.

The air conditioner or fan can be properly turned on in the mother-infant room, but the wind can't blow on the mother and baby. The temperature of the room should be kept at about 25-28, and the humidity should be kept at 50%-60%.

7. Go to the hospital for reexamination 42 days after delivery.

About 42 days after delivery, the parturient should go to the hospital for postpartum examination to understand the physical recovery.

In fact, confinement is a process for postpartum women to recover their bodies.

Be pregnant in October and give birth once. In the process of the fetus growing up slowly, the pregnant mother's uterus was stretched from the size of a fist to the size of a basketball, and she had to sigh the magic and greatness of life. The hardships are self-evident. Changes in hormones in the body lead to poor skin and out of shape. Morning sickness will spit out stomach acid, and it is difficult for the pubic bone to walk and turn over. At that time, pregnant mothers hoped that the baby would come out quickly, and knowing that the baby came out was the beginning of the nightmare. Haha, everyone who has been there says so.

I finally got through it until the child came out and came home from the hospital to recover, that is, confinement. The stretched body needs to recover slowly from pregnancy to the birth of the child. If your mother can help you best, if possible, please take a month off, so that the maternal body can recover and cultivate better. During this period, Bao Da's role is particularly important. You should always pay attention to the maternal mood and prevent postpartum depression.

In the first half of confinement, the diet should be light, not too greasy, and you can make it up slowly in the future, but you should pay attention to eating less and eating more meals to prevent postpartum obesity. Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, fruits can be warmed up, otherwise the stomach can't stand it. By the way, remember to bind. It must be uncomfortable at first, but it will get better gradually.

Keep a good mood during confinement, otherwise it will affect milk secretion. If you don't have much milk at first, drink more soup and water, such as crucian bean curd soup, jujube peanut porridge, rice porridge, millet porridge, soybean trotter soup and so on. Promote milk secretion, and let children suck more to stimulate milk secretion. At this time, we have to sigh the magic and greatness of life.

Finally, I hope all men will love the woman who gave birth to children for themselves, and women will love themselves.

balanced diet

It is not advisable for many pregnant women to eat some tonic food after giving birth. Because the woman who just gave birth to a child is very weak and her gastrointestinal function is very weak, it is not easy to digest and absorb food that is too tonic at this time. At this time, it is advisable to eat some light and digestible food. Therefore, the diet should be balanced during confinement, and vegetarian food should be well matched. A scientific and reasonable diet can help pregnant women recover as soon as possible.

Get more rest.

When you are confinement, you must rest more, which is the focus of confinement. Adequate sleep can make the parturient recover her physical strength and be more energetic. Therefore, you must rest after delivery and pay more attention to rest, but not lying in bed all the time, which is not conducive to recovery. Under the premise of physical conditions, you can exercise properly, which is more conducive to recovery. Be sure to keep a good mood during confinement, and don't get angry. If the mood has been bad, it is easy to get postpartum depression.

How to confinement? If you want to do well, you need to pay attention to many aspects. The most important thing is diet and rest. These two aspects are done well and will be successful next month. In addition, we should pay more attention to some confinement taboos, such as prohibiting sexual life and eating cold food during confinement to avoid getting sick.

Confinement is to live a closed life for one month after giving birth to a child. First, you don't take a shower or wash your hair. It tastes good.

Second, not brushing your teeth will sound like a gas bomb, and others have to stand up.

Third, don't go out, don't blow, and don't go downstairs when you are upset.

Fourth, you need to give up all the cold, ice, cold, spicy and salty things you like, because now you are not just one person, you represent two people, because you have to breastfeed.

Fifth, stay away from mobile phones, computers and newspapers. It is said that watching these things in confinement will hurt your eyes. For the sake of your health, whether it's true or not, quit first!

In short, confinement is a state of life that you have never tried before. If you marry well, you will be spoiled as a princess. If you don't get married well, it's good not to get angry when you are confined. In any case, after giving birth, the whole person will change a lot. At this time, you must be kind to yourself, otherwise you don't know what kind of lunar disease will fall, and it is difficult to cure it.

My understanding is that confinement is a process for women to adjust their mood and recover their vitality after childbirth.

Traditionally, you are not allowed to get out of bed, go out of the house, have a hard meal with a hair dryer, wash your hair and take a bath, go out on the street, and only eat and live indoors. During the confinement period, the common people pay more attention to it, mainly taking care of the health of the mother and the baby, fearing that they will get moon disease.

But confinement is much more scientific now. You can wash your hair, take a shower, get out of bed and get some air. ...

But speaking from personal experience, I want to give you some advice:

1, really don't eat cold food! After a woman gives birth to a child, her whole body is in an open posture and her body is the weakest. If she eats cold food, it will affect her stomach on the one hand and her teeth on the other.

2. Don't blow! The wind just blew in the second month, and now I always feel uncomfortable when I go out of the street.

3. Don't watch TV and mobile phones! Don't hold back, don't watch TV and mobile phones during confinement, or your myopia will definitely deepen a few degrees;

4, even if you want to feed, you must control your diet! Otherwise, your belly is too big to believe it's your own. Believe me, you don't have such good postpartum weight loss self-discipline, except for a few people.

5. Don't touch cold water and bend over!

The above is personal experience. Try to control what should be controlled within three days. Others can be analyzed according to their own specific conditions. I wish the mothers good health and a happy and unforgettable month!