What is the diet like one week after giving birth?

Pregnant women need careful care after giving birth, but first-time mothers sometimes simply don’t know how to take care of themselves. Diet is very important one week after delivery, but what kind of diet is good for pregnant women one week after delivery? As a family member of a pregnant woman, how should you make some nutritious and delicious meals for the new mother after delivery? Let's take a look at what you should eat one week after delivery.

Gastrointestinal function will recover about 24 hours after cesarean section. After the gastrointestinal function is restored, liquid food is given for one day, such as egg soup and rice soup. Avoid bloating foods such as milk, soy milk, large amounts of sucrose, etc. After the intestinal gas is cleared, switch to semi-liquid food for 1-2 days, such as porridge, noodle soup, wontons, etc., and then switch to a normal diet.

1. Initially, you can take chicken soup, meat soup, fish soup and other soups as tonic, but do not add wine. (Be sure to skim off the greasy fat on the soup)

2. Pork liver helps to discharge lochia and replenish blood, and is the best solid food choice for women who have undergone cesarean section.

3. Desserts can also help eliminate lochia.

4. Mothers with poor uterine contraction can take avocado oil to help smooth muscle contraction and improve constipation.

5. Fish and vitamin C help wound healing.

6. Due to heavy blood loss, mothers should eat more iron-containing foods to replenish blood.

7. Chinese medicinal materials such as astragalus, wolfberry, and red dates can be added to medicinal dietary supplements.

Diet in the first week after childbirth

In the first week after a normal delivery, the mother will experience great physical exhaustion, blood loss, weak stomach and intestines, and loss of appetite. She can eat tonic meals that are light, easy to digest, and have special effects.

The following is a first-week diet plan for women who are expecting a normal delivery with light labor. This diet plan ensures the daily intake of nutrients and includes recovery foods with certain functions, so as to help women pass gas, heal wounds, contract the uterus, activate blood circulation, and promote the discharge of lochia.

This week's staple food and side dishes are very monotonous, and Shenghua soup, sesame oil pork liver, barley rice, red bean rice and functional drinks should be eaten every day. Such food arrangement can make the efficacy of food better play.

1. Staple food: You must eat 1 serving of barley rice per day, and red bean rice (porridge), white rice (porridge) which have a tonic effect, warm glutinous rice oil rice, and sweet glutinous rice porridge (rice) can be eaten in moderation.

2. Side dishes: You must eat sesame oil pork liver, sesame oil pork heart, sesame oil fish, etc., which have a tonic effect, 1 portion per day. Due to the differences in the place of residence of the mothers, the fish used in the first week can be common tonic crucian carp, loach, and yellow croaker. No vegetables this week.

3. Snacks: black bean and red bean dishes, red bean soup, sunflower seeds, and hazelnuts, which have tonic effects.

After giving birth, mothers need to absorb enough nutrition in time. If they do not get the necessary nutrition at this time, not only the mother herself, but even the newborn baby will suffer from varying degrees of malnutrition. For the health of yourself and your child, you must pay attention to your diet in the week after delivery.