What should I pay attention to when recovering from my second childbirth?

For many families, children are the most important thing. However, with the opening of fertility indicators, more and more families will choose to have a second child. However, for many women, because they have given birth to a child before and have already caused damage to their bodies, they need special attention to the recovery of their bodies after the second child, otherwise it will cause some diseases. Let's take a look at what we need to pay attention to in the recovery of the second child.

What should I pay attention to when recovering from my second childbirth?

Nursing contraindications

1. The indoor doors and windows are closed and there is no ventilation: This can easily cause respiratory infections in mothers and babies; it can also cause heat stroke and dizziness in summer.

2. The longer you stay in bed, the better it is for your body: In fact, this is not true. A woman can sit up in bed 24 or 48 hours after delivery, and get out of bed and move around on the third or fourth day. If the time is too long, it will affect the recovery of the mother's body.

3. You can wash your hair, take a bath and brush your teeth only after the baby is one month old: This is extremely wrong, because the mother sweats a lot during delivery, and the continuous secretion of lochia and milk makes the body more easily dirty and pathogens can easily invade. In fact, you can take a shower two or three days after giving birth, so you are less likely to be infected by bacteria. You can wash your hair with hot water 8-10 days after delivery. After giving birth, you should brush your teeth once in the morning and once in the evening.

4. Add less salt to the dishes eaten by postpartum women: In fact, postpartum women are weak, sweat a lot, and have active mammary gland secretions, so their bodies are prone to lack of water and salt, so they need to supplement appropriately.

5. Diet: Avoid eating fish, shrimp, beef, mutton and other foods with strong fishy smell, which are not conducive to the secretion of milk.

6. Only drink soup but not eat meat: After delivery, you should feed more chicken soup, fish soup, pork rib soup, etc. to facilitate lactation. But we also need to eat meat, as it is more nutritious.

7. Eat more eggs: Eating too many eggs will affect the intake of other foods and cause nutritional monotony. It is generally advisable to eat 4-5 eggs a day.

8. Start breastfeeding one day or even a few days after giving birth: In fact, you can start breastfeeding immediately after giving birth.

9. You can resume sexual life after one month: Generally, you can resume sexual life 6-8 weeks after delivery.

4 principles of postpartum diet

Nutritionists recommend that the postpartum diet for new mothers should be based on the principles of being refined, varied, thin and soft.

The amount should not be too much

Excessive eating after childbirth will not only make the mother further obese on top of the weight she gained during pregnancy, but will also be of no benefit to her postpartum recovery. If you are breastfeeding your baby and have a lot of milk, you can eat a little more than during pregnancy, up to 1/5 of the amount; if your milk is just enough for your baby, you can eat the same amount as during pregnancy; if you have no milk or do not plan to breastfeed, the amount you eat can be about the same as when you are not pregnant.

Diversified food

Although there are some things to pay attention to in postpartum diet, you should avoid eating too much and it is still very important to match meat and vegetables. The more variety you eat, the more balanced and comprehensive your nutrition will be. Apart from foods that are clearly not good for the body and foods that may cause allergies after eating, the variety of meat and vegetable dishes should be as rich and varied as possible.

More water

The secretion of milk is one of the reasons why new mothers need more water after giving birth. In addition, most mothers sweat a lot, and the evaporation of water from their body surface is also greater than usual. Therefore, the mother's diet can contain more water and she should drink more soup. In addition to fish soup, pig's trotter soup, pork rib soup, and chicken soup, the soup should also include fruit juice, milk, soy milk, etc., which is conducive to the secretion of milk. The water used for making soup is generally postpartum rice wine (but use with caution if you are allergic to alcohol) or non-alcoholic Rice Dew (Rice Dew is brewed with high-quality glutinous rice that has passed green certification, concentrated and extracted using high-tech biotechnology processes to remove the alcohol component of the glutinous rice essence). This not only helps to retain the nutritional components of the food to the greatest extent, but Rice Dew itself has the effect of promoting lactation and increasing milk production.

Cooking food should be done in a soft and tender manner

Postpartum women should cook their meals softer, eat less fried food, and eat less hard food with shells. Because new mothers are physically exhausted after giving birth, many of them will have loose teeth. On the one hand, hard food is not good for teeth, and on the other hand, it is not conducive to digestion and absorption.

No matter which delivery method you choose, you must pay special attention to the recovery of your body after delivery. The above is an introduction to what you need to pay attention to for the recovery of the second child. After understanding it, I hope that female friends must pay more attention to bed rest after delivery. In addition, you must also pay attention to adjusting your diet and eat more light foods. In addition, you must go to the hospital for a physical check-up in time 42 days after delivery.