The importance of postpartum recovery

The importance of postpartum recovery includes normalization of pelvic muscles, normalization of body shape, and normalization of organs damaged after pregnancy. Postpartum recovery refers to the changes that occur in all aspects of a woman’s body after pregnancy, such as loosening of the pelvic muscles, changes in body shape, and the genitourinary system. The return of these changes to the pre-pregnancy state after delivery is called postpartum recovery, and postpartum recovery is very important for women. The postpartum period can lead to pelvic floor muscle damage after the initial manifestation of vaginal laxity, reduced quality of sex life, frequent urination, abdominal cramps, and in middle and old age may appear incontinence, uterine prolapse and other symptoms. Severe cases will affect normal life, postpartum recovery to do some training, such as Kegel exercises, as well as physical therapy, so that the pelvic muscles to repair to the normal non-pregnant state. With the increase of pregnancy weeks after pregnancy, women’s body shape will gradually change, postpartum recovery, such as body trimming and fat reduction, breast maintenance, stretch marks removal, etc., can make the postpartum body shape back to normal state. Postpartum blood volume increases due to receiving blood from the uterus, hypercoagulability in the early postpartum period, and reduced gastrointestinal tone and peristalsis during pregnancy. Postpartum rest and nutritional supplementation can restore these injured organs to a normal state. In addition, postpartum recovery is the period during which an abnormality occurs, it is necessary to seek medical treatment in a timely manner.