Postpartum confinement is a traditional practice following childbirth. Those who follow these customs typically begin immediately after the birth, and...

The postpartum (or postnatal) period begins after childbirth and is typically considered to last for six weeks. There are three distinct phases of the...

Maternal Lochia Postpartum care Postpartum depression Postpartum confinement Sex after pregnancy Psychiatric disorders of childbirth Postpartum physiological...

function of the anal sphincter, i.e. lessen perineal trauma, minimize postpartum pelvic floor dysfunction, and as muscles have a good blood supply, by...

Postpartum infections, also known as childbed fever and puerperal fever, are any bacterial infections of the female reproductive tract following childbirth...

postpartum recuperation and restoration. Many traditional forms of postpartum confinement exist throughout the world. Chinese Zuo Yuezi (sitting the month)...

time known as the postpartum period or puerperium. A 2016 review ties this "lochial period" to worldwide customs of postpartum confinement, a time for the...

childbirth Postpartum confinement (or postnatal confinement), a system of recovery after childbirth, involving rest and special foods Civil confinement for psychiatric...

new baby. There is some evidence that postpartum doula support can increase breastfeeding and decrease postpartum depression. Other workers overlap in...

mother and infant during the fourth stage, which is referred to as the postpartum. The first stage is characterised by abdominal cramping or also back pain...