How long should I rest after miscarriage? How should I care after miscarriage?

How long should you rest after an abortion? This is a question that many female friends are most concerned about after having an abortion. Although abortion is just a minor operation, you must pay attention to rest. Let's take a look.

The physical damage caused by abortion is the same as that caused by childbirth, so you need to rest for a month. As the saying goes, "Ten months of pregnancy, one day of delivery", "When the melon is ripe, it falls off the vine". Normal delivery is after the fetus is full-term, due to the change of hormones in the mother's body, the uterus contracts and the fetus and placenta are delivered. This is a natural phenomenon of the human body, and the body has sufficient time to adapt and prepare for it. Abortion, on the other hand, is to artificially use surgical instruments to suck out the embryonic tissue and fetus from the uterine cavity within 12 weeks of pregnancy to terminate the pregnancy. Some people call abortion a "small confinement". Since abortion artificially interrupts normal pregnancy, the body does not have a slow and gradual adaptation process, so it has a certain impact on human health.

Post-abortion care

1. Get adequate rest, read less newspapers and watch less TV, and avoid heavy physical labor.

2. Eat more nutritious food and protein-rich substances to restore your body to normal as soon as possible.

3. Keep the vulva clean and hygienic, and change sanitary napkins frequently.

4. Do not take a sitz bath within 2 weeks or before vaginal bleeding has stopped.

5. Avoid sexual intercourse within 1 month to prevent genital organ infection.

6. Generally, vaginal bleeding stops gradually in 3 to 5 days and lasts no longer than 10 to 15 days. If the amount of vaginal bleeding exceeds the amount of menstrual blood and lasts for too long, you need to seek medical treatment in time.

7. Once you resume your sexual life, you should take contraceptive measures to avoid getting pregnant again. Normally, the endometrium repair period is about half a year. So you need to pay special attention to prevent another pregnancy from causing uterine damage.

To sum up, you need to rest for one month after an abortion, and there are many things you need to pay attention to during this period. Pregnant women should avoid heavy physical labor, eat more nutritious foods, keep the vulva clean, and not take a sitting bath in the early stage. Sexual life should be prohibited within another month. If you resume sexual life, you must take contraceptive measures.