Maintaining health standard of Working Women after delivery

Almost 120 countries in the world has provision for paid maternity leave for women in companies. Only countries like United States, Australia and New Zealand do not follow the paid maternity leave law entrusted by International Labor Organization.  Due to non existence of paid leave , women were facing difficulties while pregnancy. Job loss threat ensues women to work irrespective of pregnancy or health condition.  Women are the main source of income in some 30% of the households worldwide. Countries like Czech Republic provides 28 weeks paid maternity leave, Hungary provides 24 weeks, Italy provides 5 months, Canada provides 17 weeks etc. United States provides 3 Month unpaid maternity leave and this is allowed if the company has more than 50 employees.  There are some states in USA which provide paid maternity leave . The paid leave is ensured in some countries by the employers and in some countries by government social security.  

Mother, father and child should be encouraged to stay close to each other. This increases emotional bonding and strong attachment is developed between  the three. Child stays secure due to this closeness. Babies should be allowed to breastfeed during  the first hour of their delivery as it might affects the lactation of the mother.  Mothers  face immense level of emotional surge in postpartum period.  Some mothers  feel highly excited and enthusiastic and some feels drained, exhausted and sleepy.  All these experience is taken positively or negatively based on the labor pain or degree of difficulty in delivering a child. Women looses upto 500ml of blood during the delivery process.  So much irregularities followed by  obesity or distortion in figure results in lower self esteem and confidence. Primarily, women started wearing belly wrap like corsets and girdles to keep themselves fit and improve their appearance.  But, during pregnancy or after pregnancy there are certain medical compression available in the market which is designed to overcome unusal pelvic expansion.  C-section binder  are designed to have hook  and  zip for keeping it tight with the abdomen. It is advisable to wear the costume for atleast 14 hours a day. This might creates uncomfortable experience like heavy sweating , but, it is worth wearing to get back in shape.  Maternity girdle are available in many shape and sizes , but, should be used strictly under medical supervision.  Working women should consistently follow the diet, exercise for c-section and postpartum girdle and experience their weight loss program as Jessica Alba.

How to deal with women emotions after pregnancy ?

 women are susceptible to emotional ups and downs after child delivery.  Pregnancy phase changes a women psyche and they have to change themselves overnight.  This sudden change in relationship, health, physique, attire results in a drastic change in behavior. Those women who were not mentally prepared to these kind of situation breaks down easily and undergoes depression.  Women come across situation like labor pain which they always try to manipulate and set their standards accordingly. But, the fact about labor pain is absolutely different as the pain differs from situation to situation. Even the same mother delivering second child may not estimate the labor pain.  Pain that disturbs a women can be from vaginal delivery or from  cesarean  delivery. Again a few moment separation from the child after delivery also causes  irritation. Delivery due to vaginal birth tends to be normal and do not have much effect on the mother’s emotion, however, to feel good can wear girdle for women. But, if mother undergoes c-section delivery , then it takes huge time to recover thereby causing irritation and emotional surge. Women can minimize this by wearing a c-section support belt to get relief from the upswing of the emotion.

Lot many expectations from partners regarding sharing the load and extending support for child care is also nullified at a stage. So, partners need to be bit more supportive to their wife in raising the child.  After mutual effort from both the partners only reduces some kind of stress or depression from women.  Delivering the role of parenting is a slow process  and both the partners should gradually learn to accommodate without expecting too much in a short time and invariably ending up with a feeling for guilt and finally depression.  About 15 to 20% mothers undergoes  depressions like anxiety, lethargic, guilt feeling, mood swings, irritability, forgetfulness, crying tendency,  staying lonely.

There is also another reason for increase in postpartum depression in women. This is due to the sudden increase in estrogen and progesterone hormone level within 24  hours of child birth.  There is also seems to be a drop in thyroid hormone in women after child birth.  Other  things associated with women’s negative emotions are family emotions, financial problem, bad relationship with partner and family tendency.   There is a certain level of dissatisfaction is seen after  pregnancy when the physique conscious mother starts gaining weight.  This happens as the women abdomen gets extended due to the baby and ,so,  starts putting a lot of pressure on her girdle. After child birth this extended muscle fibre is not going to contract or loosen overnight . Women gain huge emotional  upheaval due to this disfigure of their body shape.  Women are advised to continue their exercise after 2 weeks of their child birth. Exercise must not be that extensive that puts pressure on the already sored body. Women can always wear  postpartum support belt  to tighten the loosened body.  Celebrity like Jessica Alba have started using  double corset  as an exercise belt to tighten her abdomen  after postpartum recovery. Jessica Alba in her interview also suggested that she used almost 14 to 16 hours per day to gain her pre pregnancy shape.  She is now a mother of two and have managed to recover her original shape. She also proclaims that her good body shape after c-section incision is allowing her to overcome her heavy swaying emotions.