Yu Fai : An Alternative Postpartum Care

Abstract

Mothers with postpartum face fatigue, sleeplessness, muscle pains, after pain, breast engorgement, and breast feeding. To rehabilitate their health during postpartum period, an alternative care is a traditional postpartum practice called “Yu Fai”. It includes sitting or sleeping near fire, being in tent, herbal steam, sitting with charcoal, Tub Moa Gluea, massage, Compression, and nutrition. It is believed that it makes the postpartum mothers balance. They can receive this alternative care from health service or their home. The traditional postpartum practice or “Yu Fai” is followed from traditional family that is a cultural care for postpartum mothers.