Can I eat biscuits during confinement?

After a woman gives birth, she naturally enters the period of confinement. The confinement period for women is a unique tradition in my country. During the confinement period, women must pay special attention to their diet, as there are still many things they cannot eat. If pregnant women are not careful and eat things they should not eat, it will cause problems to the body. So can you eat cookies during confinement?

1. You can eat some slightly softer cookies, and try to avoid eating drier cookies, because if the cookies are too dry, it is easy to make pregnant women get irritated. In addition, excessive consumption of cookies will make the pregnant woman's body lack of water, which is not conducive to digestion and nutrient absorption. Because the baby and mother are in a close relationship at this time, the baby's health will also be greatly affected.

2. Try to eat cookies with less sugar content. It is not recommended to eat cookies with high oil solubility. The diet of pregnant women should be dominated by light taste. At this moment, the physical condition is weak, and eating more light tonic foods is beneficial to the body's recovery. Eating high-sugar foods will increase the blood sugar level of pregnant women, and eating too greasy cookies will make the oil content in the blood vessels of pregnant women higher, which is not conducive to blood transportation and affects digestion and absorption.

3. Cookies with fewer preservatives. When buying cookies, be sure to pay attention to the moisture content of the ingredients on the package. Cookies with too many preservatives should not be used, as they are not good for the health of mothers and daughters after giving birth. In fact, soda crackers are a kind of cookie that is more suitable for pregnant women. It's not too dry, not greasy at all, and the water content of sugar and preservatives is just right.

What can’t you eat during confinement?

1. Pregnant women should not eat all the eggs within a few hours after giving birth. If pregnant women eat too much eggs right after giving birth, they will not be able to digest them, which will increase the burden on the stomach. Therefore, pregnant women should eat semi-liquid or liquid food within a few hours after giving birth.

2. Do not eat cold foods. Cold foods can easily affect the blood circulation of the human body and cause body aches.

3. Do not consume stimulating drinks. Strong tea, freshly ground coffee and ethanol will affect sleep quality and gastrointestinal function.

4. Do not eat spicy food or fried high-calorie food: spicy food, hot food, fried food, greasy food, sticky food that is difficult to digest.

5. Do not eat sour astringent foods. Postpartum women with internal resistance due to blood accumulation should not eat sour astringent foods, such as dried black plums, lotus seeds, persimmon cakes, winter melon, etc., to prevent conduction blockage of blood circulation, which is not conducive to the discharge of lochia after delivery.

6. Do not eat solid, indigestible foods, as this will increase the burden on the mother after giving birth.

7. Do not eat foods that affect lactation, such as malted milk.

8. You should not eat too much chicken essence. In order to prevent the baby from suffering from calcium deficiency, new mothers should avoid eating too much chicken essence.

9. You do not need to eat Chinese herbal medicines that warm the spleen, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, such as ginseng, codonopsis, scutellaria, rose, salvia miltiorrhiza, Achyranthes bidentata, frankincense, myrrh, etc. within one to half a month after giving birth.