One month confinement
Posted by John on June 3rd, 2006
Becky mentioned this previously, but I want to explain in detail what this is. For Chinese people women who just give birth must be confined inside the apartment and eat healthy stuff and lie down. If they don’t do this properly they risk to ruin their body, and they will suffer later on in life.
There are many other rules, and all of these have their own rational explanation:
- Cannot wash hair for a month. This is because the locchia solidifies and is harder to get rid of.
- Cannot shower for 2 weeks.
- Cannot watch TV or read books.
- Must lie down. This is better for the organs repositioning.
- Cannot get out of the apartment.
Of course the modern generation does not follow these rules very closely, however their mother will force them to, because when they were young they also didn’t follow and now they are paying the consequences.
The most difficult part for Becky is not washing her hair. She’s already planning a big washing on the 24th June, and asked me to help her wash her hair on that day, she wants to use at least half a bottle of shampoo.
For the food we hired a company who specializes in one month confinement food. They deliver the food once a day, we just need to warm it up. Our ahyi helps doing that.
Overall I think Becky’s recovery is going good now. She was really hurting the first few days, now she can feel that the pain is getting better.