What is Confinement Period?

Q: What is Confinement Period?
A: Confinement Period or also known as "Puerperium", which is a health care guideline based on traditional Chinese knowledge & wisdom passed down by generations to post-childbirth women.


Q: What are the benefits of having Confinement Period?
A: It helps to restore health, beauty & youthfulness after immerse efforts, sweat, tears & loss of blood & "Qi" during labour.

Besides, confinement period also crucial to help reduce women's diseases related to limb numbness, water retention, pain, infections related to a polluted environment & incorrect diet.

Elderly people believe that the future health of the laboured women are largely depends on the care taken during her confinement (eg. nutritious foods & supplements) , in which not only helps to reduce the occurrence of diseases, but also provide therapeutic effects for chronic illnesses.


Q: What will likely be happen if a post-childbirth women fail to do well during confinement period?
A: A lack of care during this period may lead to wound infections, colds & flu, lochia, discharge problems, continuous lochia discharge, insufficient breast milk or worst, it may cause depression.

Therefore, it is crucial for a post-childbirth women to convalesce during confinement period, so that her organs & tissues can recuperate & be restored to their original state of health.