The amount of information on confinement, child birth, bringing up a child can be rather voluminous.
The sources are varied - there are books, people in the medical field, relatives, associates, hearsay etc. Sometimes, there are overlaps which can be interesting. If your relative is from the medical field, then the information on confinement is both advice from a relative and from a medical person. You could think of permutations eg a relative who is an author, a friend who passes down hearsay etc...
The point here is that one needs to be sure of the medical facts. For obvious reasons, the consequences of doing the wrong thing medically can be huge. This seems to imply that authoritative sources ought to be taken more seriously since there is some form of systematic empirical findings. But you would be a fool if you thought only along those lines.
Be nice to well meaning people even if it is clear to you that the information is hearsay or weakly unsubstantated and that you seem to know more than them. The last thing you want to have is a social problem.
That said, it seems possible to tenatively think of confinement in 4 key areas- the medical, phyisical, psychological and social.
I'd like to invite comments in a category you feel comfortable with. Also feel free to come up with new categories.
The sources are varied - there are books, people in the medical field, relatives, associates, hearsay etc. Sometimes, there are overlaps which can be interesting. If your relative is from the medical field, then the information on confinement is both advice from a relative and from a medical person. You could think of permutations eg a relative who is an author, a friend who passes down hearsay etc...
The point here is that one needs to be sure of the medical facts. For obvious reasons, the consequences of doing the wrong thing medically can be huge. This seems to imply that authoritative sources ought to be taken more seriously since there is some form of systematic empirical findings. But you would be a fool if you thought only along those lines.
Be nice to well meaning people even if it is clear to you that the information is hearsay or weakly unsubstantated and that you seem to know more than them. The last thing you want to have is a social problem.
That said, it seems possible to tenatively think of confinement in 4 key areas- the medical, phyisical, psychological and social.
I'd like to invite comments in a category you feel comfortable with. Also feel free to come up with new categories.
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