Abstinence FORTY FOUR DAYS

Abstinence FORTY FOUR DAYS
During the forty-four days, calculated from the first day of birth, the mother is diadatkan to profit through abstinence. This means that the mother was forbidden to eat or make arbitrary at will any housework, even walking up to leave his bed. After seven days then the mother was allowed to run a little bit, it was only in his home alone. This prohibition is considered an important matter even if the mother feels that she is able to make any activities normally conducted. While in confinement, she will be required to wear socks or wrap the feet with cloth to prevent wind entering the body. On his forehead will dilumurkan drugs aimed at attracting the wind out of the body.
Abstinence is not only involve nutrition and maternal health is. The husband is also not recommended for sleeping with his wife when the wife was prevented. This is because the period of confinement, the wife will feel weakness and pain during labor is still not completely gone. In addition, she will also experience postpartum blood that came out just after birth and this cause discomfort for her to come to her husband.
Among the drugs used and consumed by maternal medication usually is given by tok bidannya only. Apart from that we eat and use drugs, she will also undergo bertungku method (poultice) in the stomach once a day for a period pantangnya. Some midwives work bertungku replaced with toast. Mothers would be given food that can cause blood in the body of resources to replenish the blood that had been lost during childbirth, such as the spleen and liver. The food will be cooked a certain manner that can help eliminate the wind in the body and shrink all the nerves that have been expanded. Mothers are usually well advised to take herbs that restore energy and improve the texture and shape of their bodies to normal.
However, in today's society, giving birth in hospital is safer and easier. However, post-partum taboos will still practiced in the Malay community to ensure the health of the mother.