Taking Astragalus water to stop milk production during breastfeeding

Most breastfeeding women return to work, which is not good for milk supply. Some women will experience a decrease in milk supply after returning to work. Some people say that drinking Astragalus water during breastfeeding can help stop milk production, but this is not applicable to all women. What can breastfeeding women eat to stop milk production? Foods such as peanut and jujube rice porridge, steamed hen with Chinese wolfberry and white fungus can help mothers produce milk.

1. Will eating Astragalus after childbirth reduce milk production?

What should I eat to replenish blood after childbirth? This is an issue that all mothers and their families are very concerned about. Mothers will experience heavy bleeding during the delivery process, which will not only make the mother's body weaker after delivery, but also affect the mother's physical recovery and milk supply if she does not pay attention to blood replenishment after delivery.

What should mothers eat to replenish blood after childbirth? To replenish blood after childbirth, mothers can eat peanut and date rice porridge, steamed hen with wolfberry, and wolfberry and white fungus soup.

1. Rice porridge with peanuts and dates

30 peanuts, 10 red dates, and rice porridge. Appropriate amount of white sugar. Peel the red skin of peanuts, add water and cook until 60% cooked red dates are soft. Take out the red dates, peel and pit them, grind them into paste with the peanuts and add them to the porridge. Add sugar and cook briefly before serving. Its function is to nourish blood, invigorate the spleen and lungs. It is suitable for anemia and thrombocytopenic purpura, and can be used as a daily health food.

2. Steamed hen with wolfberry

20g wolfberry, 1 hen, and appropriate seasoning. Put wolfberry into the chicken's belly, add appropriate amount of scallion segments, ginger, broth, salt, cooking wine, and pepper powder into the container, cover and steam for 2 hours, take out, add ginger, scallion, MSG and other seasonings, drink the soup and eat the meat. Its function is to replenish blood and nourish the liver and kidneys. It is suitable for symptoms such as dizziness, vertigo, frequent dreams, forgetfulness, weakness in the waist and knees, and spermatorrhea caused by liver and kidney deficiency.

9g angelica, 2 eggs, 50g brown sugar. After boiling angelica in water to extract the juice, beat in the cooked eggs, add brown sugar and mix well. Eat 1 to 2 times after each menstruation. It has the function of replenishing blood and regulating menstruation, and is especially suitable for women suffering from blood deficiency, irregular menstruation, or physical weakness.

3. Wolfberry and Tremella Soup

20g Tremella, 25g wolfberry, 100g rock sugar or white sugar, 2 eggs. After soaking the white fungus, remove the stems. Wash the wolfberries and drain them. Beat the eggs and take out the white. Add water to a casserole, add egg white and sugar after it boils, then add wolfberry and white fungus when it boils again and simmer for a while. The function is to nourish and strengthen the body.

2. What vegetables and fruits can you eat after giving birth?

New mothers are relatively weak after giving birth and need a lot of nutrition to support their body's recovery. However, remember that you cannot take everything at once. The diet during the confinement period should be supplemented in stages according to the physical condition. Generally, the first two weeks of confinement are the lochia period for pregnant women. At this time, you must pay close attention to your diet to avoid affecting the discharge of lochia from your body. The last two weeks of confinement are the time to replenish qi, blood and promote lactation, so you should increase your tonic intake at this time. What to eat during confinement?

Pregnant women’s tonic is divided into three stages: the first stage is the first week after delivery, the second stage is the second week after delivery, and the third stage is three or four weeks after delivery.

1. The first week is the golden period for new mothers to discharge lochia after delivery. At the same time, prenatal edema and excess water in the body will also be discharged at this time. Therefore, do not eat too much in the first week to avoid complete discharge of lochia. Chinese medicine practitioners recommend that pork liver should be the main staple food, about 300 grams a day. Pork liver can nourish the liver, improve eyesight, and replenish qi and blood. In the first week after delivery, the new mother is weak and has a poor appetite, so she can eat light meat.

2. In the second week, the amount of lochia decreases and the color becomes lighter. The symptoms of back pain after childbirth should be relieved in time. It is recommended to eat sesame oil kidney to relieve the discomfort of back pain. You can add Eucommia ulmoides when frying kidney with sesame oil to improve its effectiveness.

3. By the third week after delivery, the lochia has been completely discharged. This is the time to take strong supplements to replenish qi and blood. The most commonly used ingredient for tonic is sesame oil chicken. Traditionally, the sesame oil chicken cooked during confinement is mostly made from hens, but some people also use black-bone chickens. Chicken can nourish the five internal organs, nourish blood and spleen, strengthen the spleen and stomach, nourish the kidneys, assist yang and replenish deficiency, as well as promote blood circulation and relieve pain. Now you can start eating lactation-enhancing foods. Soup is a good medicine for promoting lactation. Pregnant women can drink more papaya and crucian carp soup, peanut and pork knuckle soup, etc.