Water in Confinement

It depends on how strictly you want to follow confinement rules, and how much your family is agreeable to it. Most of these rules are passed down from even hundreds of years ago in China, where life wasn't anything like the life we have now - having said that, it's also a matter of how much you believe in them and what you want to do for your confinement. For mine, I didn't drink any plain water, only the confinement soups or tons and tons of red date longan water to keep hydrated. I tried to keep to confinement rules as much as I could, but I gave up on some midway and have issues from it until now. I had a TCM massage long after giving birth and I was told that it isn't only confinement that we shout take note of, but also during our periods because that's when our body is the weakest - no strenuous exercise, no cold/spicy food and drinks etc because our body needs the rest.