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==Importance of postnatal care (sutika paricharya)==

==Importance of postnatal care (sutika paricharya)==

Postnatal care ensures proper nutrition to the woman to regain strength after pregnancy. The woman becomes weak due to labor and nourishing the fetus. Her body tissues ([[dhatu]]) lose structural as well as functional integrity. Labor pain and expulsion of uterine contents cause physical and psychological instability. Proper diet and lifestyle regimen during the postnatal period replenishes the tissue elements ([[dhatu]]) in the body. It helps to come back to the pre-pregnant state gradually.[A.S.Sharira Sthana 3/39] It also ensures the prevention of postnatal disorders and lactation for the nutrition of infants.  

This article describes ancient practices of postnatal care. These practices are significantly changed in today’s era. However, these practices might provide insights into preparing a safe, cost-effective, and less toxic protocol for preserving health.  

Postnatal care ensures proper nutrition for the woman to regain strength after pregnancy. The woman becomes weak due to labor and nourishing the fetus. Her body tissues ([[dhatu]]) lose structural as well as functional integrity. Labor pain and expulsion of uterine contents cause physical and psychological instability. Proper diet and lifestyle regimen during the postnatal period replenishes the tissue elements ([[dhatu]]) in the body. It helps to come back to the pre-pregnant state gradually.[A.S.Sharira Sthana 3/39]  

 

It also ensures the prevention of postnatal disorders and lactation for the nutrition of infants.  

 

This article describes ancient practices of postnatal care. These practices are significantly changed in today’s era. However, these practices might provide insights into preparing a safe, cost-effective, and less toxic protocol for preserving health.

 

== Duration of perperium ==  

== Duration of perperium ==  

Ayurvedic rishis consider a lady as a puerperal woman (sutika) just after the expulsion of the placenta (apara) up to the onset of the next menstruation (artava). [Ka.Sa. Khila Sthana 11/6], [A. Hr. Sharira Sthana 1/101]  Specific diet and lifestyle is advised to restore equilibrium during this period of six weeks. [Su. Sa. Sharira Sthana 10/16],[A.S.Sharira Sthana 3/41] Anatomical changes in the reproductive organs during pregnancy may revert within six weeks. However, the resumption of pre-pregnancy physiology at hormonal level controlling the ovarian and endometrial cycles in the menstrual physiology may take more time. So, this period can be extended further as four months [B.P. Purva Khanda 4/5-6] to 6 months [Ka. Sa. Khila Sthana 11/52-53] considering the individual variations.   

Ayurvedic rishis consider a lady as a puerperal woman (sutika) just after the expulsion of the placenta (apara) up to the onset of the next menstruation (artava). [Ka.Sa. Khila Sthana 11/6], [A. Hr. Sharira Sthana 1/101]  Specific diet and lifestyle is advised to restore equilibrium during this period of six weeks. [Su. Sa. Sharira Sthana 10/16],[A.S.Sharira Sthana 3/41] Anatomical changes in the reproductive organs during pregnancy may revert within six weeks. However, the resumption of pre-pregnancy physiology at hormonal level controlling the ovarian and endometrial cycles in the menstrual physiology may take more time. So, this period can be extended further as four months [B.P. Purva Khanda 4/5-6] to 6 months [Ka. Sa. Khila Sthana 11/52-53] considering the individual variations.