Elements in midwifery care for puerperium: Air

The Air-Cold element

Air, in its cold, rational look, stays outside and is the only element that can be damaging for puerperium. During this energetical void phase, what cools, damages; the mind is focused on perceptions. The reptilian, instinctive, survival capacity, and archaic memories levels are strongly activated.

What to do?

Inhibiting rationality

Among the tips for mothers, there should be the grandmothers’ healthy ones: avoid getting cold, keep the breasts warm, do not wash yourself with cold water.

Among the midwife-specific care, everything that has been talked about in this article should induce the inhibition of rationality, from massage to visualisation, from treatments to containment strategies that allow the woman to let herself go.

By Silvia Garelli