Week 6 Alesha Byrne
Week 6
This week there was an overabundance of audio/visual cues and readings for me and I am finding myself enthralled in learning about different cultural traditions that are coupled with medicinal practices. In the Thai rural postpartum practices article we learned that in order to balance the mind-heart, body and energy (which gets thrown off balance after birth because of how taxing and consuming it is on the person’s bodily resources)- it is necessary to consume hot food and herbal water. Massage and food restriction are known to occur. This demonstrates the view that a women may be strong but a birthing is an incredible undertaking and recovery should be handled delicately, but certainly not alone and closer to the feeling of recovering from a life threatening injury. In rural Thai culture it seems like the mother is also nurtured while she is nurturing her own, a practice that is oddly removed from Western medicine. Well, I shouldn’t say that it is impossible to find but rather the societal expectation of WHO is supposed to provide the nurturing is different and oftentimes not met if the individual does not have a support network. I wonder what other kinds of treatments have made it to Thailand? Is acupressure used there? This would be a good addition to the mother’s postpartum care:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeCZdlaPvhg
This week there was an overabundance of audio/visual cues and readings for me and I am finding myself enthralled in learning about different cultural traditions that are coupled with medicinal practices. In the Thai rural postpartum practices article we learned that in order to balance the mind-heart, body and energy (which gets thrown off balance after birth because of how taxing and consuming it is on the person’s bodily resources)- it is necessary to consume hot food and herbal water. Massage and food restriction are known to occur. This demonstrates the view that a women may be strong but a birthing is an incredible undertaking and recovery should be handled delicately, but certainly not alone and closer to the feeling of recovering from a life threatening injury. In rural Thai culture it seems like the mother is also nurtured while she is nurturing her own, a practice that is oddly removed from Western medicine. Well, I shouldn’t say that it is impossible to find but rather the societal expectation of WHO is supposed to provide the nurturing is different and oftentimes not met if the individual does not have a support network. I wonder what other kinds of treatments have made it to Thailand? Is acupressure used there? This would be a good addition to the mother’s postpartum care:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeCZdlaPvhg
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