Tips on keeping Fit after Delivery

For some women who are greatly exhausted during delivery and are also nervous may develop emotional disturbances, irritability and apprehension after the birth of the baby. Depression and insomnia may worsen the mother’s condition. The so-called puerperal psychosis responds well to reassurance and to drugs like tranquillisers and sedatives. If the condition takes a serious turn, the obstetrician would, as a rule, consult his psychiatrist colleague. Your doctor will also prescribe for you some haematinic tablets (iron, folic acid, vitamin B12’ B-complex or multivitamin in variable combinations) and/or calcium pills to improve your general health. See that you do not skip the dose. To tone up and bring back your abdomen to shape buy yourself a nylon abdominal belt and use it constantly to safeguard against abdominal “paunch” and the waistline getting too big. If you are a very outgoing type and addicted to swimming, please avoid it at least for the first 6 weeks after delivery. Do not forget to continue the postnatal exercise that you learnt in the hospital. Make “exercise” a routine. Something which always puzzles the young mother: When is “coitus” permitted after childbirth? Take an expert‘s good counsel. They say: “Avoid it during the first 6 weeks or so, perhaps a little longer if you can”.