Confinement a few days best?
What is the best time for confinement? Traditionally, a month is considered to be 30 days long. In fact, the exact length of confinement should be as long as 42 days. Because it takes 6 weeks for the uterus to contract back to the size of the non-pregnant uterus and 6-8 weeks for the abdominal wall tone to recover postpartum, it is recommended that the mother be in confinement for 6 months. That's 42 days.

Why should pregnant women sit in confinement?

Confinement is a long-standing custom in China. Traditional wisdom holds that from the baby's birth to the full moon, the mother can not go out to engage in any activities, must be at home. But modern nutrition and medical technology are much better than before. Do you still need confinement? In fact, from the perspective of modern medicine, confinement is also very important.

1, maternal delivery not only needs to consume a lot of physical strength, but also cause some harm. For example: the wound left in the uterine wall when the placenta separated. Laceration perineum. Or the surgical wound of caesarean section, all need to be cultivated to restore the maternal strength and let the wound heal. During confinement, the mother can have a full rest.

2, October pregnancy, the development of the fetus and the enlargement of the uterus, will have a long-term impact on many organs.

3, for the mother of the first child, this period of confinement can be seen as a buffer period of psychological adjustment, so that the mother gradually adapt to and adapt to the role of the mother.

Confinement period should be specific to 42 days

Traditionally, people call the postpartum month "confinement", but in fact, after a month of adjustment, many organs of the body have not fully recovered. For example, it takes 6 weeks for the uterine body to retract to close to the size of the non-pregnant uterus, and it takes 6 weeks for the endometrium to completely regenerate and repair the placenta. It also takes six to eight weeks for abdominal wall tone to recover after delivery. If new mothers are engaged in heavy physical labor during this period, they are prone to diseases such as uterine prolapse.

So confinement is not 30 days as most people say, but 42 days.

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The purpose of confinement is to do moderate exercise and conditioning during this time. Proper diet and diet therapy can restore the uterus to its prenatal size, and qi and blood can also be restored after conditioning, even better than before. Good physique is slowly developed during this time.