All this is nice. However, it would be nice if the popes arranged a comfortable way of life in a convenient way, so that it would be easy for my mother to keep the house clean, to feed the child, not tired, and to walk, without worrying about the heavy wheelchair. Provided with food, and at first even fed his wife with a spoon, and the baby's diaper was changed, and could be swaddled. In general, if they do not have time to buy flowers with such employment, we will forgive them. Restoring the body of a woman after childbirth - the subject of the article.
Wisdom of the centuries
In the traditions of all nations, the health of a woman after childbirth was taken to be taken care of even more than during pregnancy. Previously, the main actors responsible for complying with the rules in the tradition of postpartum care were midwives and older women. And believe me, all those who attended the puerpera during this period did not come to her just to drink tea. The woman was always in the zone of close attention, she was provided with special procedures, engaged in her health and emotional state. Mom during this period was not allowed to wash, clean and cook. Draw conclusions, dear household members! Buy flowers or take a week off for two? In former times there was a tradition of the woman in labor to rule - to wiggle, that's why the grandmothers were called midwives. The midwife was alone in several villages and often did not have time for delivery. "Perepabit" (take delivery without complications) should have been able to any woman.
6 most important weeks
The sacrament of postpartum recovery and gave the name to the grandmother: the maternity of the mother and the baby means the midwife. She steamed women, ruled their joints, then wrapped them in a wet diaper, put them on the stove, and in the morning the pregnant woman rose up. This is what V. Zhuk wrote in his book "Mother and Child": "There is not a single state in the life of a healthy person, in which changes in the body's movements would occur as quickly as in the postpartum period, except for the first hours of life of the newborn. as a result of negligence and negligence at this time. " This time is not counted in hours, it is measured in weeks. Six weeks of a quality postpartum period is the spring where we can bring up our children without distraction. "The postpartum period is the time from the moment of separation of the placenta and the membranes of the fetus to the return of organs and systems to the state preceding the pregnancy. The length of the postpartum period is approximately six weeks, "says the classic textbook on obstetrics (Varney 1980), although many well-known midwives believe that while the baby is in diapers and the mother rises to him at night, the postpartum period continues. % of young mothers lack attention on the part of family members.This is considered the main reason for the occurrence of postpartum depression, which in our time is almost natural! But on the contrary, it is natural not to have depression. whether all the laws of nature! We do not consider it necessary to endure the pain in childbirth, we need to remove it.
We are too tired during pregnancy, because it is fashionable not to notice at all that it is. It's fashionable to stay in the saddle until the last time and then say that the birth began right at the office, we jump right after the birth, because we do not know that this is dangerous for health and because our loved ones lost the culture of caring for the woman in labor. one more problem is common: in our society, a mother who gives birth is by definition obliged to be happy and happy E. Hayberg and N. Birnstad write in the book "Childbirth - Love and Inspiration": "After giving birth, all attention is directed to the child, and the mother should constantly rejoice and to recover the property GOVERNMENTAL forces. Motherly feelings and maternal happiness should fill it up continuously, like the greatest grace. Fortunately, most women do, but depression and despair hit people much more often than we think. "And in the traditions of our people, the relationship to the postpartum period was very respectful." Thus, M.D.Toran, an ethnographer and scientist author of the book "Russian folk medicine and psychotherapy," writes: "The first thing after childbirth is a bath. To heat a bath less than three times is sometimes considered even an expression of the dislike of the family for the puerpera. After all, the bath has also that significance for the mothers, that it determines the time during which the woman "rests" after childbirth, rarely when this period lasts until the end of the first week and even less often until 10 or 14 days. " The "bathhouse" could last for a month and a half, the assistants engaged exclusively in women: they warmed up, cajoled, ruled the stomach, stretched the joints, etc. Everyone was sure that they were doing a great job: helping mother and newborn.
Restore on all hundred!
Hence, a procedure that helps the mother to gather strength and feel care is necessary. Long thinking about this issue, we tried to restore the tradition of caring for the woman in labor.