Confinement is not about lying on the bed for a month. It is recommended the new mum to stay at home to avoid getting cold. In fact, staying at home, not washing hair and taking a bath are restrictions mainly in ancient times. In the old days, homes did not have air-conditioning and good sanitation facilities. The infant mortality rate was high in the past. People tended to adopt a more stringent control method. For breastfeeding the baby, the new mum is still recommended not eating cold and spicy food, trying to supplement with healthy food for the sake of baby's health.
not only in China, many people in different countries practice monthly confinement too but in different methods. of course some old Chinese traditional ways can be abandoned e.g. not washing hair/taking shower, which are only for ancient time.
After labour mother will undergo confinement for a month at home . She will be fed with nourishment tonic to regain her health after given birth as mother tends to loose quite some amount of nutrients during pregnancy. Without confinement mother will tend to be weak and age faster
Historically /Traditionally there was no hospital in China in the past, so all Chinese were born at home. Give birth in hospitals only existed since 20th century.
Chinese culture after you gave birth, it's said that it's very crucial for the mother to recover during that 1st months. To restore as much as you can and it's said right after you gave birth, some things will become permanent if you were not able to fully restore yourself. I seem mother who gained a six pack a few months after giving birth. The no washing hair thing was because after you gave birth that started a new life, it will take a lot out of a person, like losing some hair because that's for later in life when you kid do something outrage. Then again we human lose about 150-200 follicle of hair daily, but new hair also grows back at the same rate and as we grow older that rate diminishes. I think the main point is that they didn't want that rate to diminish among other things with our human physiology.
做得好可以年轻5年哦，把元气都补回来。但在美国要月子餐那也挺难的。Jay 没跟他们说到吃胎盘这事。。会很惊讶吧。 I'm so excited for you guys! For the birth and for your trip to China. PS I was so touched to see the baby shampoo; and the video is such a good record of how you prepared for his arrival.. Sending you good and positive thoughts!
Well all that question are in china for me from other south east Asia we do have give birth at home , water birth , after birth ,take rest for 7 days to 10 days to refreshing your body . 👍👏👍👏💞💞
You will be busying breastfeeding the baby and tired, lack of sleep too. So that the reason of having one month rest for the mother, caused duties is take care baby, breast feeding, build up immunity and health. You will have more to do after that special one month till your child grow up 😂
I have been watching your videos for over a year now. Glad that your baby boy is coming soon! One important piece of advice I would give out is that you guys need to rest/sleep more. Life with a baby is so much different, constantly waking up in the middle of the night, etc. My baby boy was born in March, and the first month was the hardest for me and my wife.
We called it confinement month in Malaysia and it has been in practice for Malays, Indians & Chinese. I believed there is scientific reason behind, such as it may require such long duration for postpartum recovery especially uterus. Generally, that could also be the secret that Asian’s women aged slower.
Jay have no idea about shower/wash hair thing. woman are very weak and vulnerable after having baby, if you are not carefully look after yourself in this period you may suffer health problem for your life time. you can shower or wash hair but with caution, rule # is avoid cold water and cold wind, also try use ginger warm water will help. everyone know if you got a flu, drink hot water or hot ginger water will top it get worse. 传统坐月子不能洗头的原因：以前家里条件差，水温和室温不能很好的控制，再有可能漏风，如果吹到头可能会留下头痛的月子病。以前没有自来水、纯净水。洗头用的水都是河水或井水，水中细菌和寄生虫较多，对身体影响比较大。 月子里不能洗澡, 否则日后经常全身疼痛。因为产妇在分娩后全身皮肤的毛孔和骨缝都张开了，加之气血两虚，如果在月子里洗澡，就会使风寒侵袭体内，并滞留于肌肉和关节中，导致周身气血凝滞，流通不畅，日后出现月经不调、身体关节和肌肉疼痛。
It is very important to recover from birth in Ancient time without modern technology like air-condition, because giving birth does huge damage to woman's body. It takes time to recover and easy to catch disease during that period. For example, Taking shower in Ancient time, especially winter is potentially dangerous for the Mom. As long as you make sure the room is warm and hair dry with hot air, there is no issue with shower in modern day.
