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    Postpartum confinement is a traditional practice following childbirth. Those who follow these customs typically begin immediately after the birth, and...
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    The postpartum (or postnatal) period begins after childbirth and is typically considered to last for six weeks. There are three distinct phases of the...
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  • postpartum recuperation and restoration. Many traditional forms of postpartum confinement exist throughout the world. Chinese Zuo Yuezi (sitting the month)...
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  • 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...
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    Postpartum infections, also known as childbed fever and puerperal fever, are any bacterial infections of the female reproductive tract following childbirth...
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    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...
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    Doula (section Postpartum)
    new baby. There is some evidence that postpartum doula support can increase breastfeeding and decrease postpartum depression. Other workers overlap in...
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  • childbirth Postpartum confinement (or postnatal confinement), a system of recovery after childbirth, involving rest and special foods Civil confinement for psychiatric...
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  • weeks, dropping to 1.5% at six months. Postpartum physiological changes Postpartum care Postpartum confinement, a period of rest Romano, Mattea; Cacciatore...
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    and health profession that deals with pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period (including care of the newborn), in addition to the sexual and...
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