I didn't read the article but just wanted to say that my family believes in a confinement period. I did it with my 2nd child because my mum was in town then. I didn't with number 1, number 3 and number 4, because I didn't think I needed to. But my mum reckons it's why Asian women recover from childbirth more easily than women who don't have confinement periods. And I actually kinda agree. I don't think women who have given birth are given the time to recover properly a lot of the time, and we're expecting to pop the child out and go back to normal asap. And we think we have to be superwomen so we do. And then wonder why we feel so rundown all the time.