We now live in the the era, where we want everything fast. For almost everything, you will hear people give the reaction: Couldn’t be bother.
So, you will be surprised by the questions posted to me almost daily, regarding the confinement period (after delivery).
The lady will ask: Am I not supposed to wash my hair?
Me: Huh?
She then continue: I am not supposed to use the fan in my room too, right?
Me: Huh?
In this kind of weather, if you don’t wash your hair for a month, PLUS you don’t use a fan in your room (aircon obviously is a taboo), I think there will be more than yourself you have to deal with, before the end of the month!
Please, be a bit logical.
i think hor..i do almost all the pantangs u can think of for confinement when i had Cayden…..Not to say proud of it la..but to me…seriously , not logical lor..
I did a post about this some time back — the full list of post-natal confinement practices are truly horrifying.
And nope, I didn’t follow a single one!
Oops sorry forgot the link:
http://medicine.com.my/mydobbs/?p=312
My friend, she just delivered a baby boy last December.
5 minutes after she deliverd, she was requested by midwife to shower herself.
she doesn’t even take all the proper procedures, i.e ’sit moon’ for full 30 days…
what happened? she’s still the same healthy person
Dobbs, your MIL didn’t nag you?
All these practices I am sure got some “hidden agenda” wan, on the whole I think it was “invented” primarily to make sure the new mom gets plenty of rest in the olden days, if she has to shower, and water source is like by the river, she must get up and walk there, if she can come out then she must do housechores, cook, clean etc, etc, so easiest to cover all bases they came up with cannot wash hair and cannot get wind. Basically confining her to her room to sleep and eat and nurse baby.
Just like they tell chewren when eating cannot lie down otherwise become snake, I am sure this was fabricated to prevent choking accidents, right? Women during those days are not in the position of power to say “cannot do this or that” so they must make up some story to get their way. Smart eh?
After delivery at the hospital, I would shower bright and early, before the gynae’s visit at 8am. Cant imagine her checking me and my stitches without first washing up!! At home, same too. How not to? Esp in this hot and muggy weather. I had the air-con on all day (except for that hour when my mum was visiting), everyday. However, after 3 kids, I feel that health -wise, I am not as strong as before. Aches and pains. Could be age, too. Not nec caused by not observing those taboo practises during confinement.
FH, yup, they are smart. But the same can’t be said for those who follow the ‘pantang’ blindly today
stay-at-home-mum, thanks for coming here. Having three children does has its toll on your health
Nope MIL didn’t nag — guess she had no idea what I was doing or not doing!
Many “older” people still require that! So next time if someone nag me, I’ll tell there’s this doctor advised me not to follow those “pantangs” uhh… :p
Nowadays, there are some kinds of powder for you to dry-wash your hair, is it? I heard from my friends. They said, the powder can help you to clean your hair.
One of my colleagues didn’t believe in all these “pantangs”, she still washed hair and turned on air-con in her room. Now, she’s having problem with her health, something like “air went into her body”… I don’t know what caused her problem, but I realized she still simply ate spicy food when she was pregnant, does this matter?
kaka, home cook spicy food shouldn’t be a problem.
I can’t say the same for those poppy-laced spicy food though…
Mine was a Caesarian birth. On 3rd day, wash hair becos cannot tahan. When reached home, on aircon, becos cannot tahan. Then kena sent to Mom’s house where only got fan.
I bathed everyday, becos cannot tahan. But Mom add ginger and wine in the bath water. Macam marinate drunken chicken… hehehe..
I think I’m ok today. No big health problem
LOL datz true.