Is it necessary to buy a confinement cap? Is it better to buy a full-cover cap or a headband?

We all know that pregnant women need to stay in confinement after giving birth, and some traditional parents believe that they need to wear confinement caps during the confinement period. So we need to know whether it is necessary to buy confinement caps? Is it better to wear a full-cover confinement cap or a headband?

Is it necessary to buy a confinement hat?

It is necessary. The biggest function of the confinement cap is to keep the head warm for the mother during the confinement period. Although there is still a lot of controversy about whether blowing air after delivery will cause head wind, the family still prepares confinement caps due to their concerns. You can prepare 1-2 confinement caps for easy replacement. It is best to wear a confinement cap within one week after delivery. After one week, you can also wear a headscarf if you find it troublesome to wear a confinement cap. When the weather is hot, the confinement cap can only be worn within one week after delivery, but you must not use air conditioning or fans. But if it is spring, autumn or winter, you still have to wear it for more than half a month, and the air conditioner should be turned on indoors to ensure that the temperature is around 20-22 degrees.

Is it better to have a full-covering confinement cap or a hairband?

The half-covered confinement hat is more suitable for summer, because it is hot in summer. The half-covered hat can tie up the greasy hair and cover the forehead, so it is not suitable to be blown by the cold wind or the air conditioner. The full cover is suitable for winter, mainly for keeping warm. It is mainly windproof and comfortable. A confinement hat is important, but in the hot summer, it is too stuffy to wear a hat, so in summer, you should choose a comfortable and breathable confinement hat. It is important to protect the new mother's head from cold, and ventilation is also important. In summer, shopping malls, buses, hospitals, etc. are all air-conditioned, and the temperature difference between indoors and outdoors is large. Wearing a confinement hat allows the mother's head to better adapt to temperature changes. Whether it is summer or not, whether the weather is cold or not, protection during the confinement period must not be less. Once you catch a cold, it will leave a big problem for your body. Of course, in addition to these protections, you should also pay attention to balanced nutrition during the confinement period, supplementing sufficient nutrition, so that the body can recover faster, and at the same time, it can also make the milk sufficient, which is also very beneficial to the baby's growth.

Do I need to wear a confinement cap when I sleep at night?

You don’t need to wear a hat when you sleep at night during the confinement period, but it is better for you to wear a hat during the day, because the doors and windows need to be opened to keep the room ventilated. At this time, there may be a large indoor convection. If you don’t wear a hat, you may catch a cold and have a headache. Especially in summer, some mothers will turn on the air conditioner, and if the mother is blown by the air conditioning, it is easy to catch a cold, so it is better for the mother to wear a hat during the day. For women during the confinement period, wearing a confinement hat is to prevent the head from getting cold and windy, but when the indoor temperature is warm and comfortable, you don’t need to wear a confinement hat. Otherwise, if the confinement hat is always worn, it will lose its function of blocking wind and cold. Especially wearing a hat when sleeping will increase the discomfort of sleep, so try not to wear a hat.

How many confinement hats do you need to prepare?

You need to prepare three confinement hats, because they are for pregnant women to use to prevent headaches. Pregnant women must keep warm during the confinement period and must not get cold. If pregnant women get cold during the confinement period, it will have a corresponding impact on their future life and they are prone to headaches. You need to pay attention to not washing your hair during the confinement period. If you wash your hair, you will often feel pain in your head in the future, and it cannot be treated with medicine. Therefore, you must ensure that your head does not get cold during the confinement period.