How New Moms Can Survive the Summer Puerperium with Refreshment

In the hot summer, with the birth of a newborn baby, new mothers in addition to the joy of first-time mothers, more than other new mothers have a worry – how to refreshing “sitting in the moon”? In fact, there is no such thing as “sitting in the moonlight” in the West, but the health of Western women is not worse than that of the Chinese. Physiological characteristics of maternal discharge and sweat, but also the secretion of milk, the need for a large number of proteins, vitamins, minerals and water, etc., therefore, timely replenishment of the above substances on the recovery of maternal strength and reproductive organs, to ensure that a sufficient amount of breast milk is very important, and the so-called “month to wear thick clothes, can not blowing, can not take a bath and brush your teeth! The so-called “moonlight should wear thick clothes, can not blow the wind, can not bathe and brush teeth” and other traditional concepts of the older generation can not supplement the required nutrients. In fact, these bad habits not only can not help women recover their bodies, not good enough to make a mistake, but also jeopardize maternal health, and even endanger the life of women. Maternity is a high incidence of summer heat stroke. Due to the physiological characteristics of maternal need to be retained during pregnancy in the form of sweat discharge, and by the traditional “menstruation” can not blowing, can not take a bath and other bad habits, many mothers close the doors and windows, head cover feet, or even cover a thick quilt covered with a sweat, deliberately cover sweat, can cause central nervous thermoregulation dysfunction, resulting in Puerperal heatstroke or even shock, there has been a rural woman to the living “muffled” tragedy. In fact, women in labor are not patients, the demand for temperature is the same as normal people, in the high temperature environment, you can use fans and air conditioning. In order to avoid colds, you can take some measures, the air conditioning fan page down, the cold wind is not blowing directly against; the temperature down can be paused for a while before opening. Pregnant women should not spend the whole day in the air-conditioned environment. When the weather is cool in the morning and evening, the windows can be opened for ventilation. In short, to the extent that the maternal feeling comfortable. Do not deliberately cover the sweat, to natural sweating, sweating in a timely manner with a dry towel to dry. Ancient people think that after giving birth to sweat pores open, bathing will make the invasion of foreign evil and get “moon disease”, and therefore do not take a bath within a month after giving birth. This argument has no scientific basis. Postpartum due to the extremely vigorous metabolism, women often sweat through the underwear, coupled with overflow of breast milk and perineal dew contamination, long-term without a bath, bacteria and other pathogens are easy to invade through a variety of ways to reproduce, resulting in puerperal infections. Therefore, more than anyone else, women in labor need to clean their bodies and change their underwear frequently. Pay attention to keep warm every time you take a bath, the temperature of the water in the bath should be maintained at about 37 degrees Celsius, and each bath should be controlled at 5-10 minutes, and the body should be completely dried as soon as possible after the bath to avoid catching a cold. Of course, tub baths are not suitable for new moms. According to the old saying, brushing teeth during the month “will make the teeth loose” in fact, there is no scientific basis, in fact, loose teeth is due to pregnancy and breastfeeding calcium deficiency. If you don’t brush your teeth for a month, bacteria will grow and your teeth will definitely get sick. Therefore, during the puerperium, you should still insist on brushing your teeth every morning and evening, and rinse your mouth after meals to protect your teeth. Brush your teeth with warm water and use a toothbrush with soft bristles.