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"Traditional confinement" is a bit pitted. Expectant mothers should relax their confinement and avoid the four minefields.

Text | Baby Bean Sprouts Parenting

Pregnant in October, a delivery, many treasure mothers feel that after a long pregnancy, the baby can have a good rest after birth. However, things are not over, and there will be a headache afterwards.

After giving birth to a baby, most treasure mothers have to go through confinement, and confinement is also valued by everyone. Some people even say: confinement is not good, and it will definitely leave the moon disease in the future.

In fact, confinement is the puerperium in medicine. After giving birth to a child, a woman needs more than a month to recover physically and psychologically. If a puerperal woman doesn't have a good rest and her body doesn't recover well, there will be some minor problems in the future.

The time of puerperium is uncertain and can be determined according to the physical condition of the parturient, but it usually takes 6-8 weeks, that is, 42-56 days, of which the first 15 day is particularly important.

Although everyone attaches great importance to confinement, if we use the wrong method, confinement will turn from a good thing to a bad thing, especially the "traditional confinement" is really unfriendly to the mother, and even a bit pitted.

So what are our common "traditional confinement" minefields that expectant mothers need to avoid? What do we need to do to comfortably confinement?

Minefield 1: The confinement should be covered.

Anyone who has experienced traditional confinement knows that "covering" is really a headache. In addition to wearing several layers of clothes, hats and socks should also be tightly covered. Even my room can't be ventilated, and the strange smell in the room is really unbearable.

However, we should know that although it is important to keep warm, comfort is equally important for pregnant women. After giving birth to a baby, the mother will actually sweat a lot. If you cover the heat blindly, the parturient will be in a sultry environment and feel uncomfortable physically and mentally.

Therefore, during confinement, for the sake of maternal physical and mental health, don't cover up the heat, especially in the following two aspects, you can pay more attention.

First, the problem of maternal warmth, now in winter, we should still pay attention to warmth, but we should not only pursue the thickness and quantity of clothes, but also pay attention to comfort and hygiene.

We can choose more comfortable and warm nursing clothes. This kind of clothes can be convenient for Ma Bao to breastfeed, so as to avoid picking up clothes and catching cold when breastfeeding.

Second, the indoor environment, the room temperature is controlled at around 20~24, and the humidity is controlled at around 50%~60%, so that mothers and babies will feel very comfortable. If you want to meet such indoor environment, you can prepare electric heating, air conditioning and humidifier in advance.

Ventilation the room according to the actual situation. When it is ventilated, we can move the mother and baby to another room and put them back in the room when the temperature in the bedroom rises.

Minefield 2: Pregnant women can't take a shower.

In the traditional confinement, the most unbearable thing is that you can't take a bath, let alone take a bath. Some traditional old people don't even let their mothers wash their hair and brush their teeth for fear of catching cold.

Although the original intention is good, if the parturient does not pay attention to personal hygiene, it will not only affect the comfort of the parturient, but also be detrimental to the recovery of the body. Therefore, during confinement, it is necessary for pregnant women to pay attention to personal hygiene, bathing, washing their hair, brushing their teeth and so on.

Maternal women can do a good job of hygiene according to individual needs. When taking a bath, pay attention to the room temperature and the temperature of the bath water. The bathroom should not be ventilated. Dry it as soon as possible after taking a shower to prevent the mother from catching cold. In addition, it's best to take a bath, not too long, just ten minutes.

Minefield 3: Mothers can only stay in bed.

The traditional confinement usually makes the parturient stay in bed and reduce activities. It is said that lying still can help the parturient recover, but staying in bed for a long time is not good for recovery.

After giving birth to the baby, the maternal blood coagulation function will be strengthened. If you stay in bed for a long time, it is easy to have venous thrombosis, and in severe cases, there will be dangers such as pulmonary embolism. Therefore, you should exercise moderately during confinement.

If it is a natural delivery, you can get out of bed and walk about 6 hours after delivery, which is conducive to discharging lochia, but if you feel tired, remember to slow down and rest. Of course, under special circumstances, mothers should judge according to their own situation.

Minefield 4: Give a big supplement to pregnant women.

Many people think that after giving birth to a baby, the mother is weak and needs a lot of tonic to recover as soon as possible. In fact, postpartum tonic is too fierce, but it is good for the mother.

After giving birth to the baby, the mother's stomach will become weak. If you take supplements from the beginning, it will not only increase the burden on your mother's stomach, but some women will also have milk blockage due to too many supplements, and even lead to mastitis in severe cases.

Therefore, the diet should be as light as possible in the first few days after delivery, and it is best not to supplement it, especially some thick soups used to supplement lactagogue's body. When the parturient has recovered almost, we can increase nutrition, but we should also give priority to fresh fruits and vegetables and high-quality protein, and reduce the intake of high-fat, high-calorie and high-sugar foods.

For many pregnant expectant mothers, confinement can be said to be a terrible thing. However, it is all caused by the unreasonable requirements of "traditional confinement". As long as we follow the scientific method of confinement, I believe we will spend the puerperium easily.

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