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=== Postpartum === If the baby and mother survived the term of the pregnancy, childbirth was then the next step. The tools provided for birth were: towels to catch the blood, a container for the placenta, a pregnancy sash to support the belly, and an infant swaddling wrap.<ref name="BTqQT">{{Cite book|title=Shinzoku kibun.| vauthors = Nakagawa T, Sun B, Muramatsu K |publisher=TΕkyΕ: Heibonsha.|year=1966}}</ref> With these tools, the baby was born, cleaned, and swaddled; however, the mother was then immediately the focus of the doctor to replenish her ''qi''.<ref name="nzFZzH" /> In his writings, Cheng places a large amount of emphasis on the Four Diagnostic methods to deal with postpartum issues and instructs all physicians to "not neglect any [of the four methods]".<ref name="nzFZzH" /> The process of birthing was thought to deplete a woman's blood level and ''qi'' so the most common treatments for postpartum were food (commonly garlic and ginseng), medicine, and rest.<ref name="QDRbHW">Cheng Maoxian. ''Yi'an'' (casebook). Dated 1633, but Xue Qinghu (1991) states that the original was printed in 1644</ref> This process was followed up by a month check-in with the physician, a practice known as ''zuo yuezi''.<ref name="aeNQF">{{cite journal |last1=Pillsbury |first1=Barbara L.K. |title='Doing the month': Confinement and convalescence of Chinese women after childbirth |journal=Social Science & Medicine. Part B: Medical Anthropology |date=January 1978 |volume=12 |issue=1B |pages=11β22 |doi=10.1016/0160-7987(78)90003-0 |pmid=565536 |s2cid=13414474 }}</ref>
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