What are the recipes for caesarean section and confinement?

We all know that there is a one-month confinement period after giving birth. This is our Chinese custom. During the confinement period, pregnant women need to be given nutritional supplements. Pregnant women who have caesarean sections need more nutritional supplements than those who have given birth naturally. Therefore, the diet for the confinement period must be carefully formulated. Below I will introduce to you some detailed recipes for the confinement period after caesarean section. I hope you can understand it.

Dietary principles!

1. Eat more protein: Protein is an important factor in tissue repair, so you should increase your protein intake, especially some animal protein. Lean meat, milk, and eggs have relatively high protein content. However, rice, tofu, and flour also contain a lot of protein. Pregnant women can reasonably combine animal and plant proteins according to their preferences.

2. Reduce fat intake: When eating pig's feet, ribs, and chicken soup, you should remove the floating oil on the surface and drink more soup to promote milk secretion. If a pregnant woman has breast engorgement, she should drink less soup.

3. Reasonable food combination: During the confinement period, you should have a reasonable food combination and avoid overeating. The staple food should be diversified, and coarse and fine grains should be eaten together. However, due to poor appetite in the first few days after delivery, liquid food is generally the main food. After delivery, you should eat more vegetables and fruits to supplement vitamins and dietary fiber. Avoid eating sour, spicy, raw or cold foods, and eat less sweets. Eating too much sweets will affect your normal appetite.

Dietary arrangements for the first week after cesarean section

1. Dietary principles for the first week after cesarean section: mainly to remove lochia and promote wound healing

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.

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)

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

Desserts can also help to eliminate lochia.

Women who have poor uterine contraction can take avocado oil to help smooth muscle contraction and improve constipation.

Fish and vitamin C help wound healing.

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

· Medicinal dietary supplements can include Chinese medicinal herbs such as astragalus, wolfberry, and red dates.

Four things not to do:

Avoid eating eggs and milk within 24 hours after surgery to avoid bloating.

Avoid greasy food.

Avoid eating dark-pigmented foods to prevent the scar from darkening.

Avoid irritating foods such as coffee, tea, chili peppers, and alcohol.

2. Recommended diet for the first week after cesarean section

Radish soup (helps to expel gas)

Tangerine peel porridge (helps to expel gas and increase appetite)

Millet and brown sugar porridge (helps to expel gas and replenish blood)

Hawthorn porridge (appetite, digestion, help to eliminate lochia)

Sesame oil pork liver (promotes the discharge of postpartum lochia)

Shenghua Tang (replenishes blood, promotes the discharge of postpartum lochia, and promotes the recovery of uterine function)

Liver nourishing soup (helps neutralize or remove the residual toxins left in the body due to surgical anesthesia)

Chinese Yam and Barley Porridge (replenishes Qi, reduces edema)

Sweet glutinous rice porridge (to prevent constipation, not suitable for diabetics)

Red bean soup (replenishing blood, diuretic, promoting milk secretion)

Tomato and lean meat soup (replenish blood, promote digestion)

Sesame Oil Fish

Vegetarian stew (add appropriate amount of mushrooms, lotus seeds, red dates, wolfberries, and yam, and stew with rice wine until soft. The above ingredients can be used separately or together.)

Dietary arrangements for the second week after cesarean section

1. Dietary principles for the second week after cesarean section: mainly to prevent and treat back pain

It contracts the uterus and pelvic cavity, focuses on the recovery of the waist and pelvic cavity, promotes metabolism, and prevents back pain. It is also the main axis of postpartum weight loss, mainly strengthening the bone and waist and kidney functions and restoring the pelvis. The food is the same as the first week after caesarean section. New mothers can refer to the recommended confinement menu for the first week. For the medicinal food, use Eucommia ulmoides instead, and you can add Eucommia ulmoides tea as a beverage.

2. Recommended recipes for the second week of confinement after cesarean section (click on the recipe name to enter the specific method)

Longan and Red Dates Porridge (replenishes blood, soothes nerves and nourishes the heart)

Papaya loach soup (lactation)

Hawthorn tea, lychee seeds (promote appetite)

Fried kidneys (helps uterus contraction and promotes metabolism)

Glutinous rice with oil (helps digestion and prevents postpartum sagging of internal organs)

Sesame Oil Fish

Vegetables (replenish blood, prevent and treat constipation)

Eucommia tea (good for pelvic recovery)

Dietary arrangements for the third to fourth week after cesarean section

1. Dietary principles for the third and fourth weeks after cesarean section: nourishing and conditioning

In the third and fourth weeks after cesarean section, the mother can start taking supplements to replenish nutrition, regulate physical strength, replenish blood, regulate qi, prevent aging, and help women restore the smoothness and elasticity of their skin. After the "excretion" in the first week and the "contraction" in the second week, you can start taking the best conditioning products for postpartum physical strength and inducing lactation from the third week.

·Alcohol can be consumed with meals.

The food is the same as the first week, but you can add some calories and eat chicken, ribs, pig's feet, etc.

When you are thirsty, you can drink black tea, wine, or fish soup.

· Medicinal dietary supplements can use Chinese medicinal materials such as Siwu, Bazhen, and Shiquan (for winter use).

2. Recommended recipes for the third and fourth weeks after cesarean section (click on the recipe name to enter the specific method)

Sesame Oil Chicken

Chicken Noodle Soup

Peanut Pig Trotter Soup

Pig's trotter skin soup

Fried duck eggs with ginger and sesame oil

Tremella, Lotus Seed and Wolfberry Porridge

Hot milk or black tea

Red Bean Porridge

Longan Millet Porridge

Pig's trotter and tongcao soup

Bone Broth

Tongcao Crucian Carp Soup

Papaya, jujube and peanut soup

Cod Stew with Tofu

Recommended daily menu for postpartum confinement after cesarean section

Although the above is a recommended diet menu for the confinement period after cesarean section, some mothers are still not sure how to arrange their daily diet. Don’t panic, the recommended daily diet menu after caesarean section will ensure that the mother has a balanced and nutritious diet every day. You cannot eat greasy food in the first three days after delivery. You must eat light food because the milk ducts are not open at this time. If you eat too much tonic food, the milk will be blocked in the breasts and unable to come out. At this time, the baby will eat less and have less sucking power. For specific arrangements, please click on the recommended daily menu for confinement after cesarean section. We hope all new mothers can spend a healthy and nutritious confinement period.

The above introduces a complete list of confinement diets for cesarean section. From the above introduction, we can know in detail how to arrange the diet every week during the confinement period, as well as some dietary principles. I hope it can help everyone in life. I wish you all a happy life.