A 20-day-old infant enjoys a dip in a pool at a confinement centre in China. Photo: Reuters
It has been a customary practice amongst Asian women to stay home after giving birth and observe the month-long confinement period.
Also known medically as puerperium or the postnatal/postpartum phase, the confinement period generally lasts six to eight weeks and is a period of adjustment after delivery when the anatomical and physiological changes of pregnancy are reversed, and the body returns to its normal, pre-pregnancy state.
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