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    Factors That Influence Postpartum Recovery

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    Factors that influence a woman's postpartum recovery include her physical and mental health before, during, and after pregnancy. A healthy pregnancy with no complications and a normal vaginal birth tend to result in quicker recovery over 4 to 8 weeks. However, issues like c-sections, health problems, lack of support, baby feeding difficulties, and postpartum mood disorders can inhibit or prolong the recovery process. The document lists many specific factors at each stage that can either enhance or inhibit a woman's postpartum recovery.

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    Factors That Influence Postpartum Recovery

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    Factors that influence a woman's postpartum recovery include her physical and mental health before, during, and after pregnancy. A healthy pregnancy with no complications and a normal vaginal birth tend to result in quicker recovery over 4 to 8 weeks. However, issues like c-sections, health problems, lack of support, baby feeding difficulties, and postpartum mood disorders can inhibit or prolong the recovery process. The document lists many specific factors at each stage that can either enhance or inhibit a woman's postpartum recovery.

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    Factors that influence a woman's postpartum recovery include her physical and mental health before, during, and after pregnancy. A healthy pregnancy with no complications and a normal vaginal birth tend to result in quicker recovery over 4 to 8 weeks. However, issues like c-sections, health problems, lack of support, baby feeding difficulties, and postpartum mood disorders can inhibit or prolong the recovery process. The document lists many specific factors at each stage that can either enhance or inhibit a woman's postpartum recovery.

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    Factors That Influence Postpartum Recovery

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    Factors that influence a woman's postpartum recovery include her physical and mental health before, during, and after pregnancy. A healthy pregnancy with no complications and a normal vaginal birth tend to result in quicker recovery over 4 to 8 weeks. However, issues like c-sections, health problems, lack of support, baby feeding difficulties, and postpartum mood disorders can inhibit or prolong the recovery process. The document lists many specific factors at each stage that can either enhance or inhibit a woman's postpartum recovery.

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    Factors That Influence Postpartum Recovery

    by Penny Simkin
    Postpartum recovery is a complex process that is influenced by many factors and
    processes. When the latter occur smoothly and harmoniously, recovery is optimal and will
    be completed in 4 to 8 weeks. Many factors, however, can inhibit or prolong recovery. This
    table lists factors that contribute to a rapid and uncomplicated recovery and other factors
    that contribute to a prolonged or difficult recovery.
    Time Period Factors that Enhance Recovery Factors that Inhibit or Prolong Recovery
    1. Pre- Excellent physical health and fitness, Poor health and fitness,
    pregnancy Good mental health, Personal or family history of mental illness,
    Family support, Dysfunctional family of origin or lack of
    Financial well-being, family support,
    Positive experiences relating to health Financial worries,
    care or reproduction. Previous negative experiences with health
    Experience caring for newborns. care providers or with reproduction

    2. Pregnancy Same as above plus: Same as above plus:


    Good self-care Unhealthy or stressful pregnancy,
    Health maintenance, freedom from complications or poor self-care,
    pregnancy complications Fetus not thriving, or in questionable
    Thriving healthy fetus health,
    Good relationship with caregiver Little contact or poor relationship with
    caregiver
    3. Birth Freedom from complications, Fetal complications,
    Continuity in care from staff, Lack of continuity in care,
    Support and assistance of a doula, Fear of labor, staff, procedures,
    Labor of normal length, Variation in personality and approach
    Minimal procedures (i.e. no induction, among nurses and caregivers,
    or augmentation, forceps, vacuum Prolonged labor requiring heavy use of
    extraction, episiotomy, or cesarean pain or other medications and procedures
    section), Cesarean birth,
    Normal vaginal birth, Baby who needs special care in nursery,
    Healthy, term newborn, Baby with feeding difficulties.
    Immediate, prolonged contact with and Early separation of newborn from mother,
    feeding of newborn.
    4. First Days Adequate rest for mother and partner, Exhaustion in mother/partner; inability to
    Adequate help, nourishment, and sleep, lack of help, isolation, loneliness,
    support for mother and partner, Fussy, needy baby; poor feeder,
    Good healing of any incisions, Infection, illness in mother, poor incision
    Milk comes in, healing,
    Baby nurses well, Maternal pain (perineum, incision, breasts,
    Mellow, responsive baby, other),
    Consistent advice from staff regarding Newborn problems,
    self-care, infant care and feeding. Delay in milk production,
    Excessive engorgement,
    Contradictory advice from staff members.
    5. Next Week All of the above plus: All of the above plus:
    Help at home with newborn care, food Isolation, lack of support or help for
    preparation, household chores, mother,
    visitors, Strain, overwork, lack of rest for partner,
    Access to resources for emotional, Lack of access or knowledge about
    physical, breastfeeding assistance, resources,
    Good relationship with baby's Tension, lack of trust with baby's
    grandparents/family, grandparents,
    Evidence of successful breastfeeding Poor start in feeding,
    (changing infant stool patterns, wet Maternal physical problems, pain, poor
    diapers, good latch, no nipple soreness healing,
    or excessive engorgement), "Fussy" needy baby who is difficult to
    Good maternal physical recovery. calm, cries a lot, sleeps very little.
    Predictable, responsive infant
    6. First one Normal infant development, Abnormalities in infant development,
    to two Complete physical recovery in mother, Persistent physical problems in mother,
    months Support network (friends, family, Lack of social support for woman/couple,
    professionals), for mother/partner, Feeding problems (poor weight gain,
    Continued successful breastfeeding mastitis, nipple pain, thrush, low milk
    (good weight gain, latch, no nipple production, reflux in baby, nipple
    pain), confusion),
    Competence and confidence in "High needs" colicky baby,
    soothing, calming baby, Sleep deprivation in mother,
    Adequate rest for mother, Postpartum mood disorders, PTSD,
    Emotional well-being (absence of Lack of postpartum services,
    mood disturbances), Poor relationship with partner or family.
    Access to appropriate preventive,
    supportive, resources,
    Loving caring relationship with partner.

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