Is Re: the traditional habit of sitting on the moon? Many months of taboos are not scientific

The female health office of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (Office on Women s) provides a "postpartum recovery" column on its official website to provide health advice for women 6 weeks after delivery. The web site reminds parturients to take care of their baby while taking care of their "body" and "emotional" two aspects of health care. The primary task of postpartum is rest, including keeping calm on the first day after production, lying down as far as possible, taking a nap with the newborn, and not doing too much at home. After the production of women may face a series of physical problems, such as the excretion of lochia, limbs swollen, constipation, and so on, all of which need the positive response of the parturient with the doctor and slowly recover the healthy weight and body through a reasonable diet and exercise plan. The website also reminds parturients that postpartum may experience a period of depression, which should be patient, but if the sadness lasts more than two weeks, it should be timely, because it is likely to mean that women have postpartum depression (postpartum depression), and women may suffer the disease within a year after birth. . The web site lists some of the symptoms of postpartum depression, such as restlessness, depression, too much thought, insomnia, headache, chest pain, palpitations and so on, and remind the mothers that they should be treated in time if they are not concealed. At the same time, the website also provides special web pages to introduce symptoms and treatment of pregnancy and postpartum depression. In fact, the prevention and control of postpartum depression has always been the focus of postpartum health care in the West. In the foreign medical field, the maternal emotional care is as important as the body care. The postpartum health care column on

womenshealth.gov,

is similar to the official website of the women's health office of the United States Department of health, the largest health service website in the United States, WebMD, and the world's largest pregnant baby information website BabyCenter. A post natal health column was also set up to provide advice on living, diet, mood and physical exercise. For example, WebMD reminds me that it is easy to feel tired after the first week of postpartum, so the parturient should try to sleep as much as the baby, and invite family and friends to do the trivia and cooking. Mothers can also come to some small outdoor plans to change their living conditions to alleviate fatigue. WebMD also focuses on postpartum depression, and the web site suggests that women can choose to walk with their babies when they feel stressful, take exercise together with other mothers, or take a yoga class to ease their body and mind. The National Institutes of health of the United States (NIH) provides postpartum care guidelines for women. It also provides a number of postpartum care recommendations, such as a large number of fluids, bathing after 24 hours of childbirth, and others to help do housework and so on. These websites and guidelines can be found that Westerners also attach great importance to postpartum health care. They are concerned not only with the changes in the maternal body and the recovery, but also on the maintenance of good moods and the prevention and treatment of postpartum depression. Many postnatal care suggests that women and doctors should keep in touch, seek medical advice as soon as they need them, and follow daily orders. Similar to the traditional Chinese sitting moon, Western women are also required to rest, moderate activities, strengthen nutrition, but not such as can not wash the head, can not bathe, wear thick clothes, closed doors and windows and so on.

in Asia, many countries or ethnic groups outside China also have different puerperal customs. For example, in Japan, normal parturient can take a bath after 1 days of spontaneous labor and 3 days after caesarean section. Indians classify food and medicine according to cold and heat, similar to the concept of cold and hot in traditional Chinese medicine, pregnant women are considered to be "hot", and eat some cold food such as butter and milk. Similar to China, women after childbirth are also prohibited from cold water bathing. The puerperal custom in Vietnam is to gargle with hot water in the first three days of postpartum and wipe the body with wet towels one week after delivery, after which women can wash their heads with hot water.

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