"I think the custom of postpartum confinement probably got started because the vagina inevitably suffers some damage in childbirth, and in ancient times, before there was surgery to wounds or antibiotics to prevent infection, they had no alter-native but to let women rest quietly, waiting for the damage to heal," says Dr. Cheng Cheng-chieh, of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Mackay Memorial Hospital.
「我想，所謂『坐月子』，大概是因為婦女生產，產道（陰道）總不免有裂傷。而古時候醫術不發達，既不能縫合傷口、又沒有抗生素可預防感染，只好讓女人夾緊雙腿『坐』著不要動，靜待傷口癒合，就成了日後『坐月子』的習俗」，馬偕醫院婦產科醫生鄭丞傑如是說。