Can confinement really change your physique?
If the postpartum new mother can exercise moderately in the second month, proper food supplement and diet therapy can restore the body to the state before giving birth to the baby, and even gradually improve the bad constitution and make the body better than before. Many new mothers have smoother and more elastic skin after delivery, which proves this.
Why confinement can improve physical fitness?
During pregnancy, in order to meet the needs of the baby's growth and development, a series of changes will take place in various organs of the mother's body:
1, reproductive organs: During pregnancy, the uterus will change from the size of lemon to the size of watermelon, and the cervix will gradually soften and disappear. After giving birth to the baby, the cervix, * * and vulva become soft, congested and edema, and the endometrium falls off. Under normal circumstances, the vulva will recover soon after delivery, usually in 4 weeks after delivery, while the uterus will recover in about 42 days.
2, body organs: With the increase of gestational age, the growing fetus will seize the site of the heart, lungs, stomach, bladder and other organs, so the expectant mother will have frequent urination, loss of appetite, poor breathing and other performances during pregnancy. In addition, some hormones specific to pregnancy will also change the endocrine system, skin, joints and ligaments of expectant mothers accordingly.
These changes in the "parts" of the body create conditions for the improvement of physical quality during the confinement period. In addition, after giving birth to a child, the new mother is in a weak state and is more likely to accept aftercare. Compared with adolescence and menopause, confinement period is the golden recovery period to achieve the best effect in the shortest time.
Why are only China people being held in solitary confinement?
Many young mothers will ask: Since confinement is so good, why are only China people confined to confinement? You see, nine and a half hours after Princess Carter gave birth to her daughter, she appeared in front of the media with her baby in her arms, wearing short skirts and high heels and wearing light makeup. Some foreign mothers even run marathons after giving birth ... Why is there such a big difference between people?
This is because of the differences in living habits and environment over the years, which makes some functions of the East and the West have different adaptability. For example, the gross weight of the western human body, large pores and thick joints are more resistant to the cold.
In addition, the postpartum recovery period is also related to the mother's personal physique. Some mothers may recover almost 20 days after delivery, while some mothers still feel weak 45 days after delivery.
Therefore, we should treat confinement more objectively and don't blindly learn from the West.
There are four things you need to know about conditioning your body by confinement.
1, the moon will sit for "42 days"
In the concept of the older generation, "confinement" means one month. In fact, the real confinement refers to 42 days after delivery, which is called puerperium in Linyi.
As mentioned above, it takes about 6 weeks for pregnant women's uterus to return to normal size, and 6-8 weeks for postpartum abdominal wall tension to recover. Therefore, it is recommended that pregnant women be confined for 6 weeks, and 30 days is far from enough.
2, supplements need to be cautious.
Our tradition for many years is "after successful unloading, we should take supplements". Many families have a deep-rooted concept of maternity supplements, even to the point where they have to take supplements as long as they have children. But in fact, for new mothers, as long as the diet is rich, reasonable and nutritious.
Many foods supplemented by ordinary people should be avoided by new mothers. For example, tonic foods such as longan and ginseng, if the new mother eats too much, may inhibit uterine contraction, affect intrauterine congestion, and may also induce pelvic inflammatory disease.
In addition, new mothers should not eat too greasy and high-fat food immediately after delivery, otherwise it will affect the patency of mammary duct, induce mastitis, and may even lead to an increase in blood pressure and prolong the recovery period of uterus.
3. Use biochemical soup with caution
For new mothers, it is very important for postpartum recovery to excrete the residual substances in the uterus as soon as possible. Therefore, many new mothers will use biochemical soup to promote lochia discharge.
Undeniably, the effect of "promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis" of biochemical soup does help to discharge lochia, but it is very dangerous for some new mothers to drink biochemical soup just like drinking water.
Drinking a large amount of biochemical soup at a time is easy to cause endometrial instability and cause continuous bleeding. In Linyi, we once met a new mother who was bleeding heavily because of excessive use of biochemical soup.
Here, I would like to remind all new postpartum mothers that biochemical soup belongs to traditional Chinese medicine after all. Be sure to ask your doctor to evaluate whether you need to take it before taking it. In addition, when taking Shenghua decoction, it is necessary to avoid the taking time of uterine contractile agent, so that Shenghua decoction can play the role of expelling lochia and avoid postpartum hemorrhage.
4, it is not appropriate to breastfeed prematurely.
In order to give milk as soon as possible, many new mothers will drink a lot of soup, such as pig's trotters soup and crucian carp soup, to promote lactation. Objectively speaking, the milk yield of new mothers is closely related to factors such as nutrition and heredity.
However, for new mothers with good constitution, good nutrition and much colostrum secretion, the lactation time can be appropriately delayed to avoid excessive milk filling, which will lead to the formation of lumps and induce mastitis.