What is the best food to eat in confinement?
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For every puerpera, the conditioning during confinement is very important, not only for their own health, but also for the health of the baby. Pregnant women must pay attention to the healthy diet during confinement, so that they can supplement more nutrition and have more milk to feed their children. So what's the best to eat during confinement? Let's share my experience.
What is the best food to eat in confinement?
Brown sugar water: new mothers in childbirth consume a lot of energy and physical strength, coupled with excessive blood loss, need to add a lot of iron. Brown sugar water is very suitable for the first postpartum meal. It can not only replenish blood, but also promote the discharge of lochia after childbirth of new mothers. But don't drink too much brown sugar water. Generally speaking, postpartum 7 ~ 10 days is better, later should eat rich nutrition, a variety of food.
Eggs: if new mothers feel better about their digestion, they can start to try eggs at the beginning of their second meal. Eggs are rich in nutrition, help new mothers recover physical strength, maintain the health of the nervous system, reduce postpartum depression. Eat 2 ~ 3 eggs a day, but pay attention to eat two meals. Boiled eggs in white water and steamed egg soup are good choices.
Rice wine + ginger + sesame oil: since ancient times, there has been a tradition of using rice wine, ginger and sesame oil to cook food in the tonic diet of confinement. Ginger's function is to remove cold, warm the uterus to help the lochia discharge. As for sesame oil, it is conducive to uterine contraction, recovery of pre pregnancy state. However, it should be noted that once lochia stops, the use of sesame oil and alcohol must be reduced. For the new mother of cesarean section, do not use alcohol in the first week after delivery, so as not to affect the wound healing, only use ginger and sesame oil.
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Pig liver: the first week is the golden time for new mothers to excrete lochia. Prenatal edema and excess water will also be excreted at this time. It is recommended that pig liver be used as a staple food for invigorating qi and nourishing blood, about 100g per day. It is not appropriate to drink chicken soup, pigeon soup and so on too much for new mothers, because at this time, the new mother's mammary gland has not been opened up, eating too well, but it is not easy to be absorbed, and even cause milk reflux.