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Postpartum confinement
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<p>Postpartum confinement is a traditional practice following <a href="/facts/Childbirth/KaWFJ4kG">childbirth</a>. Those who follow these customs typically begin immediately after the birth, and the seclusion or special treatment lasts for a culturally variable length: typically for one month or 30 days, 26 days, up to 40 days, two months, or 100 days. This postnatal recuperation can include <a href="/facts/Postpartum_care/Vu2BwN70">care</a> practices in regards of "traditional health beliefs, taboos, rituals, and proscriptions." The practice used to be known as "<a href="/facts/Lying-in/woBpxQPS">lying-in</a>", which, as the term suggests, centres on <a href="/facts/Bed_rest/etHddkdn">bed rest</a>. In some cultures, it may be connected to taboos concerning <a href="/facts/Impurity_after_childbirth/YyzlzXBP">impurity after childbirth</a>. </p>