him, the baby feels your care and tenderness, feels needed and loved. And this is the main thing that is biologically necessary for human and cultural development.

Sometimes moms take motherhood too seriously and see it as just a responsibility. But it is also an incomparable joy. Try to enjoy everyday communication with the baby, from observing the changes that are happening to him, the manifestations of more and more new opportunities, abilities and skills. Let this be your life setting.

Separately, let's talk about the relationship of the spouses. The reaction of a husband to the appearance of a child can be complex. On the one hand, it is certainly a joy. But, on the other hand, there is also a subconscious feeling of being useless. Outwardly, this feeling can manifest itself in excessive irritability, the desire to spend time in the company of friends, outside the home, even in showing signs of attention to other women.

A young father should remind himself that his wife has a much harder time, because all the worries and concerns about the baby, a huge nervous, physical and mental stress, fell on her shoulders. It is at this time that the wife needs help, moral support and the love of her husband. Helping his wife with the housework and caring for the child, the young father will feel needed, family ties will be strengthened, the wife will appreciate his care and participation.

There are men who are sure that caring for a child is not a man's business. This is not true. Scientific data show that spiritual intimacy, mutual understanding, and friendly relations between father and children develop more easily in those families where the father early, from the first weeks, or better, the days of the child's life, takes part in caring for his son or daughter.

The father needs at least from time to time to feed the child himself from a bottle, from a spoon, wash his diapers, communicate with the baby every day, play with him. Most fathers prefer to walk with the child when he sleeps and does not manifest himself in any way. This is not enough for the father to have a close relationship with him. The mother sometimes needs to leave the child to the father so that he can take all cares about the baby, at least for a while, while the mother is in the store or at the doctor. Only by entering into communication with the child, the father will feel the “taste” of parental love.

A complex of health-improving exercises performed by a woman in the postpartum period

Exercise can be done within a few days after childbirth. If there are seams, then only abdominal breathing or full yogic breathing is done as an exercise, if you own it.
Therapeutic effect:
• energizes and cleanses the blood;
• gently massages the abdominal organs;
• improving blood circulation, prevents the formation of blood clots and blood stasis.
After several days of abdominal breathing, we move on to a set of exercises performed every day.

Exercise 1
Starting position: sitting in bed.
Performance:
• tighten all muscles, including the abdomen, buttocks, thighs, anus;
• inhale with tension, exhale with relaxation;
• then move your shoulders back and up in a slow and gradual motion;
• lower your shoulders;
• make 5 circular movements with your shoulders;
• after moving back, move your shoulders forward: the shoulders at this time go forward, down and back. The arms hang gently, they should not move independently of the shoulders;
• then rotate your shoulders alternately - almost like swimming on your back, but without arms. When the left shoulder moves backward, the right shoulder moves forward.
Therapeutic effect:
• the vertebrae rotate in their sockets, blood circulation increases, and this prevents the curvature of the spine.

Exercise 2
Starting position: sitting or lying down.
Performance:
• move your toes up and down several times;
• then rotate your feet a few circles to the right, a few to the left;
• then several times raise and lower the foot, training the ankles;
• With your feet below your knees, make a movement as if you want to shake off something from your feet, first with one, then with the other foot.

Exercise 3
Starting position: sitting with outstretched legs, hands on hips. Performance:
• take a few “steps” with your buttocks forward;
• then take “steps” back.

Exercise 4 Performance:
• raise your arms, bent at the elbows, to the sides and try to bring the shoulder blades together, squeeze them tighter;
• put your hands down;
• repeat several times.

Exercise 5
Starting position: sit down, put your feet together and grab your ankles with your hands. Performance:
• swing out side to side, massaging the buttocks.
Therapeutic effect:
• improves blood circulation in the anus, perineum and vagina.

Exercise 6
Starting position: arms extended to the sides.
Performance:
• rotate your arms in small circles forward, increasing the diameter of the circle;
then rotate back, reducing the circle. Therapeutic effect:
• the figure of the mother is quickly restored;
• exercise is important for the health of the child, as he feeds on mother's milk, and the quality of milk depends on her physical and mental condition;
• favor also directly production of milk;
• genitals quickly begin to take their original position and size;
• other abdominal organs that have been displaced by the enlarged uterus, and the muscles of the abdomen, pelvis, which have been severely stretched, also return to normal more quickly;
• prevent the formation of blood clots and stagnation of blood in the uterus and veins;
• help with constipation.

A set of exercises that restore the figure, prevent the formation of fat and are performed by a woman after the birth of a child

In время беременности брюшные мышцы растягиваются, чтобы вместить растущую матку. After the birth of a child, they remain enlarged and, if nothing is done to prevent this, sag due to loss of tone, fat accumulates in them. This can be combated with pelvic floor exercises. After all, pregnancy does not necessarily have to spoil the figure of a woman. If a woman consciously trains using certain exercises, her figure after childbirth should remain unchanged.

Exercise 1
Starting position: lying on your back.
Performance:
• inhale and pull your knees to your stomach;
• Exhaling, slowly lower them, feeling pressure in the abdomen.

Exercise 2
Starting position: standing, arms above your head.
Performance:
• inhale and stretch your arms up, tensing all the muscles, including the stomach;
• Exhaling, relax.

Exercise 3
Starting position: standing, arms along the body.
Performance:
• inhale and raise only one head, feeling the tension of the abdominal muscles;
• Exhaling, relax.

Exercise 4
Starting position: standing, feet shoulder-width apart, arms along the body. Performance:
• bend down and take out the right foot with both hands;
• then straighten up, spread your arms to the sides and at the same time bend back;
• repeat twice;
• then the same on the other side.

Exercise 5
Starting position: the same. Performance:
• Leaning back and leaning on your elbows, several times vigorously reach your right shoulder with your right knee;
• then the same левой ногой.

Exercise 6
Starting position - standing, legs apart, hands on the back of the thighs. Performance:
• lean forward, reach your right knee with your head;
• straighten up and take out the left one. The hands should slide along the back of the leg to the ankles when tilted.

Exercise 7
Starting position: clenched fists in front of the chest.
Performance:
• holding clenched fists in front of the chest, spread your arms, as if overcoming resistance, to the shoulder line;
• bring back;
• repeat. Exercise 8
Starting position: standing, arms along the body. Performance:
• clench your fists and bring them together in one fell swoop in front of your chest;
• lower your hands and bring them together again. Упражнение 9 Performance:
• move your arms as if you were breaking a rope, tensing your chest muscles;
• relax;
• repeat.

Exercises that return the vagina to normal size

After childbirth, sexual intercourse should be avoided for 3 months, since it takes time (about 100 days) for the vagina to return to normal size. This is important for both spouses, otherwise the vagina will remain stretched and never get
its normal value, which will affect the degree of sexual arousal.
If such a restriction is not possible for the spouses, then a woman a few days after giving birth for 3 months every day needs to do the following exercises:

Exercise 1
Starting position: squat down.
Performance:
• take a deep breath and at the same time slowly and smoothly contract the anal muscles. These contractions should be felt in the perineum;
• hold your breath for a few seconds and take a slow breath, relaxing the muscles in the anus;
• this alternation of contractions and relaxations with inhalation and exhalation should not be abrupt.
• Focus on the perineum.
Initially, perform 4 movements per day for 5 seconds for each contraction and relaxation. Gradually bring the total number of contractions to 10-15.

Exercise 2
Starting position: sitting or lying down.
Performance:
• squeeze the muscles of the buttocks, tightly connect them, strain so that there is a feeling that your hips have become smaller.
Therapeutic effect:
• strengthen muscles vagina;
• help to avoid hemorrhoids, which often appear after childbirth;
• have a massaging effect on the rectum.