Some netizens asked: I am about to have a full moon, my mother-in-law contacted a confinement center to let me sweat, I don't want to go, but my mother-in-law advises every day, the confinement center calls every day to urge, I am very entangled, do I need to sweat?
Some places have some customs, coupled with the hype of some merchants, saying that the confinement must sweat. In fact, postpartum sweating is an unscientific practice, unnecessary, and meaningless.
Because during pregnancy, due to the increase in estrogen and progesterone, there is more water retention in the body. The volume of blood in pregnant women is increased than in the usual state of not being pregnant, about 1000-1500ml. This is during pregnancy, the mother to supply the mother and baby two people with normal heart function needs, the whole body needs to increase the blood volume. In addition, the body is also preparing for bleeding during childbirth, so the amount of body fluid is increased, and the blood is relatively diluted.
After the mother gives birth to the child, the estrogen and progesterone in the body will decrease, and the retained water in the body will be excreted through the form of sweating.
At the same time, the metabolism of the mother during confinement is relatively strong, coupled with the weakness of the constitution after just childbirth, originally like to sweat, if you deliberately sweat it will aggravate the symptoms of sweating, which may cause excessive evaporation of sweat in the short term, resulting in heat stroke and dehydration of the mother. In severe cases, fever, prostration, and even severe heat stroke, fainting or even shock, liver and kidney failure, thus endangering life. That postpartum sweating is not asking for money but for death.
If the mother with poor physical fitness is easy to sweat, it will also affect the secretion of milk volume, which indirectly affects the growth and development of the baby.
There is no need to sweat after childbirth, and women sweat more, to drink more water, drink more soup food, not only can maintain the water in the body, but also promote the secretion of milk.
When the confinement is 42 days old, you should go to the hospital to check the recovery of the body after childbirth, whether the uterus has sagging symptoms, and if the postpartum physical condition is recovering well and there are no discomfort symptoms, there is no need for special sweating.