How should women take care of themselves after giving birth?

Giving birth to a child is a particularly harmful thing to the body, so we Chinese pay special attention to "confinement month", which is to better restore physical health. Only if you do well during the confinement period can you have a good body. So how should a woman take care of herself after giving birth? How can she do it to be good for her body and the baby in all aspects? Let me introduce it to you based on my personal experience.

After delivery, women need to make up for the losses caused by pregnancy and childbirth, restore their health, and breastfeed their children to ensure the supply of milk. Therefore, postpartum nutritional supplements should also be taken seriously. In the first few days after delivery, they should eat easily digestible, nutritious and non-greasy foods. Such as porridge, noodle soup and the like.

Later, gradually increase the amount of food according to the mother's appetite. For the health of mother and child, eat high-calorie, high-protein and high-vitamin foods. Such as eggs, meat, chicken, beans, milk, fresh vegetables and fruits. The diet should be well-balanced and diversified, and both meat and vegetables should be eaten. Do not avoid certain foods and drink more soup to ensure the secretion of milk.

Rest and activity. After giving birth, a woman feels very tired, as if she had participated in strenuous activity. So you should rest in bed for the first two days. If the mother is strong and has no wounds on the perineum, she can sit up after 6-8 hours. The next day, you can get out of bed and move around or do leg-raiser and head-lifting exercises in bed to help your abdominal muscles recover and prevent your belly from becoming loose.

The amount of activity should be gradually increased to speed up the recovery of physical strength and energy, which is beneficial to the recovery of the uterus. On the 10th day after delivery, the uterus should return to its original position and enter the pelvis. You can start doing light housework half a month after giving birth. Within one and a half months after delivery, since the vaginal muscles have not fully recovered, you should not do heavy housework such as carrying water, mopping the floor, lifting heavy objects, etc., otherwise it will easily cause uterine prolapse.

The above content is some common sense about how women should take care of themselves after giving birth. Now that you understand this knowledge, you should pay enough attention to it in your life. You must pay attention to proper maintenance after giving birth so that your body can recover better, be beneficial to your health, and avoid leaving behind diseases.