Li Chengping, an analyst at VCBeat, an online healthcare website, said that after giving birth, moms often face pelvic, uterine, urinary tract and mammary issues.

In the paper, the China Maternal and Child Health Association and UFH jointly asked postpartum rehabilitation facilities to achieve a set of goals, such as ensuring a more than 50 percent exclusive breastfeeding rate each month, conducting depression screening tests for new mothers every month, and reducing the incidence rate of mastitis — inflammation of the mammary gland — among new mothers and umbilical cord infection in newborns to less than 5 percent per month.