Firstly, to ensure that your health is not affected, and lactation is not reduced, you need to get enough sleep. A nursing woman should sleep at least 8 hours a day. If your baby does not sleep well at night, then give yourself time to sleep during the day. You can sleep at one time with the baby, putting the stroller on the balcony. Do not take charge of all household chores and responsibilities. The first time after birth your family should support you and help you.
If you sleep enough at night, then do not neglect walking. Come out into the air - it's useful for you and the baby. Movement adds strength and energy, improves mood.
Look after yourself. During pregnancy and after childbirth a woman must always observe personal hygiene. Wash thoroughly, at least once a day, as after sweating, sweating increases. After water procedures, you can rub the body with a towel, this will increase blood circulation, which means that you will feel more cheerful. Using cosmetics and deodorant is not forbidden, because a woman should always remain a woman, that is, desirable and beautiful.
When you can take a bath, it is best to take them with broths of medicinal herbs, which not only have a beneficial effect on the nervous system, but also tone up the skin of the body. Very useful baths with decoctions of sea-buckthorn, chamomile flowers, horsetail, needles, birch leaves, nettles, coltsfoot, strawberries.
Eliminates the excessive sweating and unpleasant odor of the bath with the decoction of the next dry mixture: the leaves of birch, St. John's wort, raspberry, peppermint, cranberries, rose petals - all this must be taken in equal proportions. To rejuvenate the skin, energize it and improve its color, you should take a bath with the following decoction: linden flowers (1 part), currant leaves (2 parts), peppermint leaves (3 parts), hops (1 part), chamomile flowers 3 parts), turn (1 part), horsetail field (1 part). if your skin is oily, prone to frequent pimples, acne and irritations, then you should take a bath once a week with such decoction: plantain (1 part), calendula flowers (2 parts), St. John's Wort (1 part), thyme (1 part) , chamomile flowers (1 part), juniper (1 part). to return the skin of the breast, and especially, the stomach is firm and taut, it is useful to take a bath with a decoction of fern.
After childbirth it is useful to make various scrubs and body masks to return the old form.
Of course, special attention after childbirth should be given to caring for hands. They, too, should be in shape, and therefore, be gentle and gentle, because the skin of your crumbs is still so tender and sensitive. Hands need to be washed with soap and warm water. The nails should be cut short and sharpened, clean the dirt with a brush under your fingernails. You can apply nail polish. If the skin on your hands is dry and rough with frequent washes, then once in a few days make oil baths for hands - in a warm vegetable oil, drip a few drops of vitamin A, a few drops of lemon juice, add a pinch of sea salt and glycerin. Hold hands in the bath for 20 minutes, then rinse them with warm water and spread on greasy cream. It is useful to wipe your hands with lemon peel.
Legs need to be washed daily, but also massaged in the direction from the bottom up. It is useful to lie down among the day with your feet raised. If the swelling is severe, then you should seek advice from a doctor. Nothing so does not relieve the legs of fatigue, like an evening relaxing bath with the broths of various herbs. Before going to bed, massage your feet to relieve tension. Do not less than once a month do a pedicure. So your legs will quickly return to their original shape and will be healthy and beautiful.
Despite the fact that after the birth of a woman almost all the time spent at home, this does not mean that you can ignore the skin of the face and neck. Return the old form of these parts of the body is also necessary, as well as return a beautiful figure. You can look after the face not only in beauty salons, but at home: making various nourishing masks, cleaning the skin with scrubs, using moisturizing creams. All this will allow you to stay young and beautiful even at home.
In addition, after birth, there is a hormonal reconstruction of the woman's body, she can change the skin type. Lack of sleep, breastfeeding, nervous tension - all this negatively affects the skin of the face and neck, can lead to premature aging, loss of elasticity and elasticity. To your skin has always been beautiful and well-groomed, enough to give her 10 minutes in the morning and evening. Remember for yourself three rules of healthy skin: cleansing, toning, nutrition and hydration. You can take care of the skin not only with expensive means of industrial production, but also with home masks. Home remedies for skin care are sometimes more effective than those bought in the store. For example, a sour cream mask applied to clean face skin for 15 minutes is able to perform miracles - it gives the skin a healthy appearance and natural radiance. And if in sour cream for a mask to put a little honey or fresh berries, the effect will be even stronger. Of course, face masks are best performed in a quiet, calm environment, it is best to lie with a mask on your face, relaxing. But if you have absolutely no time for such procedures, then do the masks between the cases - when cooking or cleaning, the effect will still be.
As for daytime make-up, it's up to you whether to apply it or not. if you feel uncomfortable without makeup, then apply a light, low-key makeup, using pastel shades. As for the perfume, it is better not to overdo it, it is better to give up the harsh aromas for the time of breastfeeding, replacing them with deodorants with a delicate smell.
Be beautiful!