Listen to the people at home that pregnant women have a great impact on their own health when they give birth, and they need to take delivery to make up for it. Is confinement really so important? What should be paid attention to? What should be avoided? These problems are very important. Expectant mothers should take a look in advance~
What does confinement need to pay attention to?
1、 Avoid getting cold
What should a woman pay attention to during confinement? The first thing to pay attention to is to avoid catching cold. There used to be some foreign women, after giving birth to swim, and drink ice water. For most Chinese women, this is not an appropriate way, because the constitution of people in the East and the west is different. For Chinese women, when they are in confinement, they must avoid catching cold, such as not taking a cold bath, not touching cold water, not blowing cold wind, etc. This is to make the damaged body and reproductive system recover as soon as possible.
2、 Moderate exercise
Perhaps literally, confinement seems to be the best way for women to sit still after giving birth. In fact, if the body is normal, the second day after delivery, pregnant women can try to get out of bed slight exercise. And after a week, you can try to do some light housework, in order to not let the body feel tired. Moderate exercise, for maternal recovery is still good.
3、 Pay attention to hygiene
What should a woman pay attention to during confinement? It is also important to pay attention to postpartum hygiene. During the period of confinement, due to the need to eat a lot of supplements, oral hygiene may be affected to some extent. In addition, because often sit still, and also can't easily take a bath, at this time personal hygiene state is not particularly good. Often change and wash objects, and pay attention to cleaning body parts.
Myth 1: lie more. Childbirth hurt the vitality, and confinement is to lie more.
--Long term bed rest increases the risk of uterine prolapse
Many people think that puerpera are weak and need to rest, so that they can stay in bed for a long time, and even eat food in bed. In fact, this is very unfavorable for postpartum recovery.
* because the bladder muscle tone is reduced, the sensitivity to bladder pressure is reduced, and the pain of the vulva incision is affected. At this time, if you stay in bed for a long time, under the action of gravity, the filled bladder will push the uterus backward. In addition, a period of time after delivery, the uterus has not returned to normal anteversion, so it is easier to be in the posterior position. When the abdominal pressure increases (such as coughing and defecation), the uterus will drop along the vaginal direction and prolapse.
Postpartum long-term bed rest, but also makes the intestinal peristalsis weakened. Some of the customs of confinement often make the maternal diet lack of fiber. These are easy to cause maternal constipation. Constipation force defecation action will lead to increased abdominal pressure, increase the risk of uterine prolapse.
Proper exercise is beneficial to the discharge of lochia
Take postpartum bed rest as an example. In fact, new mummy does need rest, but it's not bed rest.
In fact, new mothers who give birth naturally can sit up within 24 hours after delivery and simply exercise their muscles and bones, such as washing their hands, face and doing simple housework.
After 24 hours of production, the new mummy can do some prone exercise, supine leg flexion, sit up, supine leg lifting, anal and perineal, buttock muscle contraction exercise according to her own physical conditions. These exercises can be carried out in bed, but do not overwork, start to do 15 minutes, 1-2 times a day.
For the new mummy who wants to recover her hot figure quickly, the normal delivery women can start to do aerobics in two weeks. Do abdominal exercises as soon as possible, which are good for training abdominal muscles. It's the simplest, most economical, most effective and no side effects method to restore body shape.
On the other hand, proper exercise is actually conducive to uterine involution and postpartum lochia discharge, prevention of rectus abdominis and sagging of sexual organs, acceleration of blood circulation of the whole body, prevention of postpartum congestion and thrombosis, help abdominal muscles and pelvic floor muscles to restore tension, and quickly restore the beautiful body before delivery.
For the new mother of cesarean section, she can get out of bed and do slight activities on the first day after operation, gradually increase the amount of activity every day, and start to do postpartum gymnastics 7-10 days after delivery. However, if pregnant women with severe complications such as pregnancy induced hypertension syndrome and heart disease, the time and intensity of postpartum activities should strictly follow the doctor's advice.
[warm tips]:
After natural childbirth, you can get up in 6-8 hours and urinate by yourself. After 24 hours, you can go to the ground for slight activities. Episiotomy in postpartum 3 days can get out of bed activities.
After cesarean section 24 hours can get out of bed simple activities, after 10 days or so, the body can recover well in the case of light fitness exercise.
Mistake 2: cover more. Do not go out, do not blow against the wind, and the doors and windows are closed
--Keep air circulation and reduce the number of trips.
The closed and dirty environment is the 'hotbed' of puerperal infection. Clean environment and fresh air are very important for both mothers and newborns. For families with more comfortable housing conditions, open the window for ventilation for 30 minutes every morning to ensure sufficient air convection and sufficient light. As long as the mother and the baby are not exposed to the convective wind, and do not blow directly to the wind, they will keep warm when ventilated, and will not be affected by the 'wind chill'.
It's not taboo to go out, but we should take good measures to keep warm, especially the scarf around the head and neck, to prevent the "confinement disease". Puerperium to rest, reduce the number of times out to avoid fatigue.
[warm tips]: whether it is going out or indoor ventilation, as long as the maternal clothing is suitable, it is beneficial to health, and can prevent the occurrence of hyperthermia, heatstroke or heat rash.
Myth 3: you can't wash your hair and take a bath. Otherwise, it will leave the root of the disease.
--Keep warm, shampoo and shower more healthy.
After childbirth, women's sweat glands are very active, easy to sweat a lot, their breasts need to drip milk, and there is lochia in their lower body, forming omnidirectional sticky hair. Mixed with several kinds of smell, their health condition is very poor, and they are very easy to get sick. This requires more attention to maternal health than usual, more bath, shampoo, wash feet.
From a scientific point of view, postpartum can take a bath, shampoo, wash feet. Only timely bathing, hair washing and foot washing can make the body clean and promote the blood circulation of the whole body, accelerate the metabolism, keep the sweat gland milk smooth, which is conducive to the excretion of metabolites from the body, regulate the autonomic nerve, restore physical strength, and relieve muscle and nerve fatigue.
[warm tips]: if there is no wound in perineum and fatigue has recovered, you can take a bath at any time instead of a bath. But the bath time should not be too long, 5-10 minutes each time. The room temperature of 20 ℃ and the water temperature of 34-36 ℃ are the most suitable. After washing, dry your body quickly and put on your clothes in time to avoid catching cold.
Postpartum bathing and hair washing are beneficial to the health of puerpera. As for when to start, according to their own physical condition, local temperature to choose the above two methods. Do not let the water temperature too cold, in case the body is cold, causing a lot of discomfort.
Myth 4: don't eat raw and cold food. Fruit should also be boiled hot to eat, otherwise it will hurt the spleen and stomach and teeth.
--Cooked fruit nutrition loss a lot, postpartum fruit and vegetables according to eat.
The older generation always constantly remind and supervise the puerpera not to eat cold raw food, even fruit. The nutrition secreted by milk has a great relationship with diet. If you don't eat fruits, where do the vitamins and other nutrients come from? Heated or cooked fruits not only have no fresh taste, but also lose a lot of nutrients.
In fact, postpartum can eat vegetables, fruits and other cold food. Because the recovery of the body and the secretion of milk need more vitamins, especially VC has the function of hemostasis and promoting wound healing, and vegetables and fruits contain a lot of vitamins. And they also contain more food fiber, which can promote intestinal peristalsis, is conducive to postpartum defecation, but when eating, pay attention to whether the food is clean and hygienic.