In Australia, I believe over 90% women if they are well after labour and left hospital, they will start back to do house work, shopping and having shower. Yes! I'am talking about having a shower.
In Hong Kong (HK) over 90% women will have in-house postpartum care for a month.
In my country, after the baby born, we will stay home for month to have rest to try to recover our body system, we believe that after labour women lost a lot of blood and also make our body very weak, so we better stay home and don't let the wind blow on us, specially our head, otherwise we will have headache in the future.
For the 30 days home stay, we'll drink a lot of healthy Chinese medicine soup it helps to improve our body. And we won't have shower incase we didn't dry our hair and body very well it will cause the "wind/ cold" go in to our body, so it will make us have joint pain in the future. We also won't eat any raw and cold food, because it will let the cold go in to our body, some people won't even drink water instead of rice tea.
So many people ask me what about something happen then you have to go out? Well, whatever the temperature outside we will wear long sleeve cloth to protect ourselves don't let the wind blow on us.
I have been told my husband and his family these stuffs and they all think very weird, but I remember that I had watched on SBS they did an interview of some Oz women, they believe and doing the in-house postpartum too, so believe or not it just up to you, but that's 80% women will do it in my country.
Yes you're right. My country the same as your country. Women after get birth, they have to stay at home for one month and didn't do anything and just feeding the baby.
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