Although some conceptions about taking care
of mothers and babies after giving birth are wrong, many mothers believe in
those.
To babies
Never
touch fontanel of newborn babies because it can harm brain
Fontanel helps skull become soft in the process
of giving birth and it is also suitable for the development of skull when
babies grow gradually. Fontanel is divided into front fontanel and back
fontanel. When babies are 3 months old, back fontanel will disappear because
articulation that connect skull is matched. And front fontanel will disappear
when babies are over 1 year old.
According to the traditional way to take
care of mothers and babies, mothers should avoid contacting with this organ of
babies. In reality, doctors consider that mothers shouldn’t worry too much
because babies’ brain is temporarily filled up tightly by bone, but it is
protected by 3 covers: Soft cover (connective tissue that spreads grooves of
brain), cobweb (creating foundation for blood vessels) and hard cover (covering
elastic and hard cerebral cortex).
Besides, spaces between covers that are
full of fluid have role of reducing shaking. Skin – the final protecting cover
with peripheral traumas. Therefore, if babies have thick hair, mothers can be
unbiased to brush their hair or washing it with correct way won’t harm this
membrane.
If
babies have thick hair, mothers can be unbiased to brush babies’ hair or
washing babies’ hair with correct way won’t harm to this membrane.
Babies
need to be taken a bath every day
According to the view about taking care of
mothers and babies after giving birth, people consider that if babies are taken
a bath every day, they can sleep well and grow well. In reality, if parents
bathe babies too much, they unintentionally make certain moisture of their skin
lose. As a result, it can make their skin dried and it can be stimulated.
Moreover, when you put babies in a bathtub
with soap bubbles from shower cream can make little girls have inflammation of
urinary.
Hence, mothers only make daily hygiene for
babies at places that are easily dirty such as area of winding diaper, armpit
and other skin areas that have fold. You should only bathe babies about 2-3
times/week.
To mothers
Mothers
should only eat foods that are good for stomach
Ancestors often consider that pregnant
women should only eat things that are good for stomach such as lean meat is
cooked with brine and saffron, chicken is cooked with brine and ginger, and
soup of sweet leaf… and they must abstain a lot of things such as:
Pregnant women shouldn’t eat soup and drink
a lot of water because in the future they can urinate a lot. This view is
completely antiscientific because after giving birth the mother’s body needs a
lot of water to produce milk. Hence, every day mothers that are giving suck to
babies need a minimum amount with 2.5 liters of water.
After
giving birth, every day mothers that are giving suck to babies need a minimum
amount with 2.5 liters of water.
It is similar with the reason of urinating
a lot, mothers must abstain kinds of vegetable such as cabbage, head cabbage… In
reality, if you ignore these kinds of vegetable, it will be very wasteful
because they provide an amount of necessary fiber to help pregnant women avoid.
Pregnant women shouldn’t eat fishy foods,
abstain sea foods, shrimp, crab and fish. This is one of the wrong views
because these foods that are rich in nutrients are necessary for pregnant women
to secrete milk, so they shouldn’t avoid eating them.
After
giving birth, pregnant women must abstain taking a bath and washing hair.
According to traditional view, pregnant
women have to abstain to take a bath and brush hair at least in 1 month. And
even some pregnant women are advised abstain in 3 months and 10 days.
In reality, if pregnant women don’t take a
bath early, the mother’s body will be a favorable environment that bacteria
causing disease develop and they can infect babies. To pregnant women that have
caesarean don’t spend a lot of sweat and effort, pregnant women that give birth
normally will make the body have a lot of sweat in the process of beginning
labor. After giving birth, if pregnant women don’t bathe cleanly, their body
will have a lot of bacteria that cause disease. This thing is especially
dangerous when mothers contact with children every day because of request about
taking care of babies.
After
giving birth, if pregnant women don’t bathe cleanly, their body will have a lot
of bacteria that cause disease.
Don’t
have sex exactly 6 months after giving birth
Traditional view about taking care of
mothers and babies after giving birth considers that about a half of year after
giving birth, women can restore completely and at this time, they can have
sexual relation.
However, modern medicine considers that
when women’s bodies restore and produce juice, they can begin to have sexual
relation normally. But you need to pay attention to problem of preventing
pregnancy after giving birth.
