
How to Help Your Body Recover from Childbirth
Looking after yourself is just as important as looking after your new baby. With confinement practiced by Chinese, Malays and Indians, most Singaporean mums understand that special care is needed to help themselves heal and recuperate after childbirth.

Postnatal Exercises
The last thing you’ll feel like just after birth is exercise – and in the following weeks, what with all that breastfeeding, settling, bleeding and recovering from childbirth, it’s hard to get motivated to do much else.

Return of Your Period
If you are fully breastfeeding, that is no supplementary feeds, it is likely you will not get your period until you have started to reduce the number of feeds your baby is having. This is not a rule and some women find their period returns quickly
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