Business plan on Beauty Confinement Care / Nurul' Azizah Hj. Sulaiman

After birth confinement period is a phase where the women will experience changes in their physical and emotional and transitioning to a new role as a mother. It started as soon as the baby being delivered and last up to 6 weeks where the mother's body will return to its non-pregnant state. During this period, postpartum women may experience few problems such as tiredness, gaining weight, constipation, haemorrhoids and soreness of breasts as minor problems; to serious problems such as wound infections, pain, haemorrharge, psychosis and postpartum depression (PND). The essential features in the Malay postpartum care include the use of herbs, heat and Malay postnatal message (Akmal, 2015).