Childbirth is one of the most important moments of women in life, moreover, childbirth is also a challenging moment for women because they need to make a big effort in order to have a successful delivery, and the delivery process always brings serious physical and psychological problems for women after childbirth whether the pain of delivery was hard or slight. We called the key term “birth traumas”.
The following multi-causal and multi-dimensional problems after childbirth often might be ignored by women themselves and their family. But in fact, it always leave negative effect on women’s health. When I was working as a physiotherapist in China, I found that most of female patients have big or small health problems after parturition and some problems are serious which we called pelvic floor dysfunction(PFD): chronic pain of pregnancy, urinary incontinence and postpartum depression and so on. There are many researches noting that pregnancy and childbirth are risks factors concerning postpartum problems. However, when I talked these problems with female patients, especially about delicate health issues, female patients are very embarrassed and they are reluctant to say it out, hiding true feelings and viewing it as normal phenomenon, they prefer suffering from these problems for their whole lifetime instead of seeking for help. Sometimes, female patients hold the view that they can not share their problems with physio of same sex since patients have humiliation. Meanwhile, my male colleagues talked to me that they also have difficulties when communicating with patients of the opposite sex about obscure problems because mutual incomprehension. Hence, it makes hard when I attempt to collect information from my female patients about childbirth diseases.
Recently I left for United Kingdom to study and receive further education. When I communicated with my tutor and classmates who have different culture backgrounds about the development of postpartum rehabilitation in their country and ask them how they consider these issues relating to women’s health, I still felt some of them do not want to discuss with me about the question in depth due to privacy even though they know women’s health should be taken into consideration. In recent years, postpartum rehabilitation is under the development in China because there is a growing realization that these problems could not be completely cured without clinical interventions. Also, in the long run , these problem will become very serious which lead to poor quality of health for women.
In this blog, my aim is to discuss three main problems of puerpera, assessment of disease and existing treatment from the recent research. As I have mentioned before, according to several communications with people of different cultures, I believe that these problems affect every culture and need to be concerned and welcomed, we should encourage women to speak out their real feeling and receive postpartum rehabilitation treatment. I will explain my views from my clinical experiences and evidence-based information. If you would like to make a contribution to my opinions and efforts in mummy’s health, just sharing your views and/or previous experiences, you are more than welcome.
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