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Is postpartum care a must for mothers over 35?

 

Recently, due to the paradigm of marriage not being a must anymore, average age of women giving birth has got older. Eventually, mothers over 35, and in their first birth has increased too. According to NSO (National Statistics Office), the average in age of laboring the first baby is 31.6. This means, it is not abnormal to have a baby after your 30s.
However, when you have conceived in an advanced maternal age, you need to be aware of complications such as; gestational diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and obesity.

The body goes through so many changes and the influences cannot be overlooked. Female in Asia tend to have narrow pelvis than those of western mothers. This body structure makes the whole healing process slow.

Korean Medicine Doctor Kang Nuri mentioned, when women gives birth, all joints and pelvis are widened using way more energy than usual. This can lead to intestines its function weak and decreases metabolism.

This not just makes you feel weak, but comes along with other symptoms. 



If you had any vertebral diseases, bad posture, severe weight gain, you may get much more serious postpartum symptoms. There are mothers suffering from sore wrist, stiff shoulder, back pain and pelvic pain, due to wrong feeding posture.

Doctor Kang underlined, it is a must for mothers of advanced maternal age should manage to take care of their body. Some just ignores the symptoms and wait for it to go away, and actually makes it worse. Therefore, it is not enough to highlight not to miss the adequate treatment period and spend enough time to heal.



Recently, growing number of patients are visiting Korean traditional hospitals to improve their pain or to recover from birth. This is mainly because of mothers wanting to be back ready to work and for the recovery.

In at Kwangdong Oriental Hospital, we provide different treatment plans for different mothers. The herbs used in the medicine are prescribed differently according to the type of body and symptoms. There are patients worried if it is okay to have herbal medicine during the breast feeding period. In Kwangdong, we use herbs that are perfectly fine for breast feeding mothers and GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) proved herbs.

For more information, please contact us through e-mail address down under.

Images from following websites:

 https://parenting.firstcry.com

International Clinic Team

Kwangdong Hospital of Korean Traditional Medicine

612 Bongeunsa-ro, Kangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea

E-Mail : english@ekwangdong.co.kr

Tel : 02-2222-4907 (Local) / 82-2-2222-4907 (Overseas)