04/04/2022
Proper Recovery After Delivery of a Baby
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How do you feel when you take antibiotics?
I feel like l am drying up, and need to eat well, and drink more water to restore some freshness.
How does a sore feel? Wet or dry?
The answer is wet. Wounds or sores, unlike well healed scars are relatively 'moist' or 'wet'.
What are the chances that wounds which did not heal well could get infected as compared to healthy skin or scars?
Wounds could easily get infected.
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How does a woman who has delivered a baby feel?
The answer is 'wounded'.
A woman who has delivered a baby not long ago feels 'wounded', and needs to heal properly. There is a difference between healing and proper healing.
It has come to the attention of the older women in the church that some of our young mothers are not actually aware that after delivery, it takes about to get healed properly. A WHOLE YEAR! Not just some weeks of taking drugs administered at the hospital. Those drugs and sometimes injections are for immediate relief, but there is a need for deeper healing which most women are not aware of. This deeper healing ensures that the mother is stronger and not nauseous months or years after delivery. There have been reports of some young mothers abstaining from certain kinds of foods, even eggs, months after delivery because suddenly they find those food very nauseating.
Others, after some years have been more prone to certain kinds of infections which have been fatal. It is for this reason that concerns have been raised.
Taking hospital drugs, sitting on hot water (steaming) and eating certain kinds of special hot meals to heal the body has proven not enough for some women as our bodies differ from person to person.
Steaming for normal delivery through the birth canal, CS.
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Most women in our part of the world are not exposed to the douching can, which has a tube attached to it to enable warm water to travel deeper into the birth canal to heal it well, especially the mouth of the womb. We are only used to sitting on hot water buckets, however the douching can is more effective.
If you had cuts at the opening of the birth canal which were stitched, sitting in real hot water is not advisable, rather sit on warm water, in order not to disturb the stitches to allow healing gently, especially if your skin is relatively softer.
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The main purpose for this article is to highlight on ensuring properly healing of your body over a period of ONE YEAR after delivery.
About a month after completing the hospital drugs, you need to get 'the breast-feeding mothers herbs better still, woods called Obaatan aduro in the dialect Twi, boil and drink about a tot or two everyday for about a period of one whole year. It's a mixture of woods or herbs and spices. This comes in two categories, one for mother's who had normal delivery through the birth canal, and one for those who had caesarian section. You need to say that kind of delivery you had, to get the right combination of woods and spices from the herbal doctor, most of whom are located in the markets. Currently, the breast-feeding mothers' herbs cost about ¢30.00.
In waiting to get the breast-feeding mothers' herbs, an alternative is to crush negro pepper('whintia' in the Twi dialect), crush fresh ginger (ideally, don't scrap the skin of the ginger) , and also cloves (peppre in the Twi dialect). Add this three spices in a bottle of clean water overnight and take a tot or two about 2 to 5 minutes before meals. Wash these spices with salt water and rinse with ordinary water before crushing them.
Also note that when the walls of the birth canal is not healed properly, about 3 months after delivery, s*x could cause bleeding, and could be fatal . Also the introduction of sperms into a womb which has not healed properly could be fatal. In this case condoms are advisable, but abstaining is best.
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Stay healthy and regain your strength after delivery🙏