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 Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 5:33 am Post subject: Korean mothers can't shower for 2 weeks after birth? |
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| My gf told me a few months ago that when a korean woman gives birth, she can't take a shower for about 2-3 weeks, for some reason which I did not understand at all. Can someone please explain this to me? |
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Corporal
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Hollywoodaction
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| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 8:27 am Post subject: |
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| Corporal wrote: |
http://www.nursingcenter.com/prodev/cearticleprint.asp?CE_ID=408218
It's not just Korean mothers. Many Asian cultures practice this as well. |
Yes, but I wonder which, if any, of the practices are wrong.
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 8:46 am Post subject: |
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| Corporal wrote: |
http://www.nursingcenter.com/prodev/cearticleprint.asp?CE_ID=408218
It's not just Korean mothers. Many Asian cultures practice this as well. |
That was a really insightful and thoughtful article. thanks! |
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Corky
Joined: 06 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:46 am Post subject: |
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| This is what I got from this article: women everywhere can successfully have babies, even if they're hot or cold. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 10:09 am Post subject: |
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| We in the West should take notice. Hospitals routinely rush mothers out of the hospital in Canada within 24 hours of the delivery. Often they have no help at home. I think this is insanity. The blood thing seems to make sense to me. Let the women recover for Christ's sake. |
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Novernae
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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| blaseblasphemener wrote: |
| We in the West should take notice. Hospitals routinely rush mothers out of the hospital in Canada within 24 hours of the delivery. Often they have no help at home. I think this is insanity. The blood thing seems to make sense to me. Let the women recover for Christ's sake. |
Nothing in the article suggested that other countries don't ruch mothers out of the hospital; All it suggested was that other cultures focus more on the recuperation of the mother after birth (often at home, not in the hospital). What has happened in the west is that we have lost the extended family support. It was never up to doctors and nurses to care so much for post-partem recovery or educate mothers on proper care; That was something that was always done by extended family. That's the disconnect happened. We began replacing the importance of family in the birth process with medical care, and then we reduced that to insignificance.
I personally found the article quite hypocritical. I agree that health practitioners should be sensitive and aware of cultural differences (aware enough to ask if there are any special practices that the parents would like followed, not aware enough to actually know all of the practices), but the article completely discounts the western culture surrounding birth. The writer complains that the focus after she gave birth was on the baby rather than the mother -- well that is a western 'tradition' that is just as valid as her own culture and other cultures' focus on the mother's recuperation. You can agree or disagree with it, but if your argument is for cultural sensitivity in not discounting non-western cultural practices, you can't discount western practices, such as the strong belief in bonding after birth. I have to wonder if she's spent any time educating nurses from her own culture about different beliefs. There was a post on here awhile ago about someone who was quite distraught by the treatment they and their baby would be getting at a Korean hospital after birth. The doctors would not respect their own cultural practices. It's one thing to criticise ignorance, but it's another to jump on the whole 'western culture is bad all other traditional cultures are good' bandwagon. |
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rothkowitz
Joined: 27 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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I don't get the long post-partum period.30-40 days...
Which is merely to say that I don't understand it.
Koreans have told me that Asian women have smaller pelvises,which I certainly don't agree with.Everything is in proportion...
Restorative foods,yes.Eat dog if it will make you feel better.Whatever works.
Taking a shower after being "cut"(sorry I put it so crassly) would just go against common sense.Didn't the nurse read her chart?
I guess there's a high amount of symbolism in Asian births.Some have gone.The 100 day(paek il)celebration,for example. |
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endofthewor1d
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| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| my wife has never heard of the shower thing. she's five months pregnant, and she plans to shower several times within that two to three week window. |
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