2023-10-30 22:00:00
‘Postpartum care’ becomes more important as first childbirth is delayed… If you are negligent, you will suffer aftereffects such as postpartum disease.
Eat well and rest well first… Relieve blood stagnation with herbal medicine, strengthen energy and blood, and restore vitality
Na Hyo-seok, Oriental medicine gynecologist
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Because a woman’s body undergoes significant changes during pregnancy and childbirth, ‘postpartum care’ is of utmost importance. Image Today
“After giving birth, I feel like my body has completely changed from head to toe.”, “Even though a year has passed since I gave birth, I still feel pain all over my body.”, “I am very stressed because of the extra belly fat after giving birth.”
The process of becoming a mother is harder than you can imagine. She goes through a long and difficult journey from before becoming a mother to after becoming a mother.
After spending ten months carrying a child in her stomach and the difficult time of childbirth, the mother is left with veins bursting all over her face and her hair matted. Her belly is flabby, her limbs are swollen, her whole body is exhausted, and she doesn’t even have the energy to move.
That is the beginning of the ‘golden time’ for ‘postpartum care’. However, after becoming a mother, she has no choice but to take care of the ‘baby’ before herself, and she misses the ‘golden time’ when many mothers can calm down their tired bodies. However, in order for her mother to take good care of her baby and for her baby to be happy, it is necessary for her mother to quickly recover from her fatigue.
The most basic aspect of ‘postpartum care’ is eating well and resting well.
The most important thing is to eat foods that suit your tastes along with seaweed soup, keep your body warm, and get enough rest. The problem is that everyone knows that resting is best, but the dilemma is that there is no time to rest. From the moment our precious baby comes out of the womb, ‘childcare’ begins with feeding, putting him to sleep, and washing him, making it difficult for mothers to have time for themselves. After spending the ‘golden time of postpartum care’, it is difficult for a mother’s body to fully recover to the state it was in before her pregnancy.
In particular, we must not overlook the fact that as women’s childbirth becomes increasingly delayed, the physical burden on mothers has increased. According to the ‘Life of Men and Women through 2023 Statistics’ recently released by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, the average age of mothers giving birth for the first time in 2021 was 32.6 years old. The age of first birth was getting later and later, passing the age of 32. Unfortunately, the body in your 30s is completely different from that in your 20s. Because the body’s ability to recover is low and physical strength is weak, recovery of the body’s condition after childbirth is bound to be slow.
Therefore, the later the first birth is, the more important postpartum care is.
If postpartum care is not performed properly, various problems occur, and in Oriental medicine, ‘postpartum wind’ is cited as a representative aftereffect.
Postpartum pain is a term in Oriental medicine that refers to symptoms such as joint pain or coldness in the body after childbirth or miscarriage. The literal meaning of the word is ‘being exposed to the wind after childbirth’, and the joints feel sore, the muscles ache, the cold wind blows into the limbs, and there is a feeling of numbness and coldness here and there. You become more sensitive to pain, but your skin sensation decreases, your ability to adapt to temperature decreases, and you sweat more.
If postpartum care fails, you will live with pain due to various aftereffects in addition to postpartum fever. So, among female patients who come to the oriental medicine clinic complaining of pain here and there, many say, “I’ve been in pain since I gave birth,” adding, “I wasn’t able to take proper postpartum care.”
The recovery time after delivery for the mother’s body to return to its pre-pregnancy state is called the ‘puerperal period.’ It is usually about 6 to 8 weeks. This period is a recovery time for the uterus and its related organs to return to their original state.
During pregnancy, ‘relaxin hormone’ is released to help give birth to the baby easily. This hormone gently relaxes joints, cartilage, and ligaments, allowing the pelvis to open properly. Ultimately, the ‘puerperal period’ is the period in which the ligaments stretched during labor and birth recover, and it takes approximately 4 to 6 months after giving birth. Therefore, it is calculated that postpartum care must be taken for at least 4 months for the body to fully recover.
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The ‘relaxin hormone’ secreted during pregnancy helps the pelvis to open well and allow for a smooth birth.
Oriental medicine can also help with postpartum care.
Oriental medicine’s postpartum care prescription begins with taking herbal medicine to eliminate blood clots formed during childbirth. The prescription varies depending on the mother’s physical condition and individual symptoms, but it is usually taken for about 1 to 2 weeks.
Next, postpartum tonics are used to strengthen energy and blood and promote recovery of the body. Postpartum care helps restore health prior to pregnancy and childbirth, such as treating postpartum edema and preventing postpartum wind, and helps mothers quickly return to their daily lives.
Postpartum care herbal medicine can be taken from the time you can eat a normal meal after giving birth. If you gave birth naturally, you can take it on the day or the next day, and if you gave birth by cesarean section, you can take it from 3 days after giving birth.
Rest for recovery after childbirth is absolutely necessary, but that doesn’t mean you should spend too much time lying down. It is important to start with light exercise and quickly recover the abdominal muscles stretched by pregnancy. The abdominal muscles are one of the core muscles and play a very important role in maintaining posture and maintaining the stability of physical activities. It is easy to injure your shoulders or back while holding a baby without quickly recovering your core muscles. Additionally, exercise capacity is reduced and injuries occur easily.
The postpartum period is a time of many physical and emotional changes for the mother. Emotional care is just as important as physical care. She recommends that the mother take proper postpartum care, not forgetting that only if she is healthy and in good physical condition will her baby be healthy and happy. Let’s take care of the mother’s health first for the health of her baby.
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Postpartum care, don’t miss the ‘golden time’ [건강 퍼즐].
Postpartum care, relieve blood stagnation and strengthen energy and blood [건강 퍼즐]
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