Recipe table for postpartum meals

Natural childbirth is the best way for women to give birth, and this method causes the least damage to the uterus. However, if women want to give birth naturally, they need to make various preparations during pregnancy. First, they need to ensure that the fetus enters the pelvis, and then in the late pregnancy they can promote the contraction of the uterus to allow the fetus to be delivered smoothly. For women who give birth naturally, they need to eat more protein-rich and blood-enriching foods during the confinement period to help the body recover quickly.

Week 1 (discharge of lochia and toxins in the body)

1. Shenghua Tang: seven servings for normal delivery and fourteen servings for caesarean section

2. 2 servings of fried pork liver with sesame oil

3. Sweet glutinous rice porridge: two bowls a day

4. Red bean soup: two bowls a day

5. Fish soup: mullet, sea bass or yellow croaker, cooked with low-temperature roasted sesame oil, rice wine extract, and roasted ginger, one piece per day

6. Confinement drinks: Eucommia health tea, or litchi shell tea, or longan wolfberry tea, thirst quenching and health care, drink as boiled water, two cups a day

7. Raw malt juice: For those who are weaning, take one bowl a day for three consecutive days (not necessary for breastfeeding).

8. Barley rice: two bowls a day (if you can’t finish it, don’t force yourself)

9. Special lactation soup: Octopus and pig's trotter soup (for those who have no milk four days after giving birth)

10. Papaya tea: for those with insufficient milk (three days after giving birth)

11. Liver-nourishing Soup: nourishes and protects the liver, helps the liver improve its detoxification ability

Second week (contracting the uterus and pelvic cavity)

1. Shenghua Tang: Those who delivered by caesarean section should drink it until the 14th day, those who delivered by natural delivery do not need to drink it

2. Fried pork kidney with sesame oil: two bowls a day

3. Sweet glutinous rice porridge or longan porridge: one bowl per day

4. Red bean soup: two bowls a day

5. Oily rice: one bowl per day

6. Fish soup: mullet, crucian carp or yellow croaker, cooked with low-temperature roasted sesame oil, rice wine extract, and roasted ginger, one piece per day

7. Drinks: Eucommia health tea, or litchi shell tea, or longan and wolfberry tea, quench thirst and nourish the body, drink two cups a day.

8. Vegetables (choose mild vegetables, mainly red vegetables, such as carrots, radish or red amaranth, spinach): 2 servings per day

9. Barley rice: two bowls a day, you can also choose pasta

10. Papaya tea: for those with insufficient milk

Week 3 (nutrition supplement, physical recovery)

1. Sesame oil chicken: two bowls a day

2. Sweet glutinous rice porridge: one bowl per day

3. Red bean soup: one bowl per day

4. Oily rice: one bowl per day

5. Fish: All fish are fine (sea bass and mullet are fine for caesarean section): one bowl per day

6. Confinement drinks: Eucommia health tea, or litchi shell tea, or longan wolfberry tea, thirst quenching and health care, drink as boiled water, two cups a day

7. Vegetables: Mild vegetables, two servings per day

8. Fruits: cantaloupe, papaya, grapes, cherries, peaches, the same every day

9. Barley rice: two bowls a day

10. Peanut pork trotter soup or octopus pork trotter soup (for those with no milk or insufficient milk): one bowl a day for three consecutive days. If you don’t like drinking pig’s trotter or pig’s foot soup, you can try medicinal food instead, such as yam and chicken soup.

11. Papaya tea: for those with insufficient milk

Week 4 (Consolidation Period)

1. Red bean soup and sweet glutinous rice porridge should be cooked softer in the first three days after delivery. Don't eat too much at one time.

2. If you feel thirsty after delivery, you can heat the Ziyuetang confinement water and drink it after boiling. The daily amount should be controlled within 1000ml.

3. You can cook a day's worth of staple food and snacks together and put them in the refrigerator, then heat them up before each meal.

4. Soak Shenghua Tang and dietary beverage A/B in an appropriate amount of rice water or drinking water for about 10 minutes, then boil them together with the soaking water for 10 minutes, remove the soup bag, and then boil until it reaches about 300 ml. Drink about 100 ml on an empty stomach before each meal.

5. For other soup packets, soak in about 600 ml rice water or drinking water for about 10 minutes. Add water and stew after stir-frying the staple meat dishes. Or, add the soup packets and soaking water when fish soup is half cooked, stew for about 10 minutes and remove the soup packets. All soup recipes are for one-time use and cannot be re-cooked.

6. Fruits should mainly be warm in nature (such as apples, peaches, grapes, papayas, cantaloupes, cherries, etc.). Please wash the fruits and warm them in hot water before eating.

7. If you feel the soup is too greasy, you can skim off the floating oil on the surface of the soup.

Postpartum meal recipes

When arranging confinement meals, family members must pay attention to making reasonable arrangements based on the new mother's physical condition. You can have a lot of meat and fish, but it should not be too disorganized. Below we will make a detailed analysis of the do’s and don’ts of confinement meal recipes.

should:

1. The confinement meal menu should include protein-rich foods, especially high-quality animal protein, including chicken, fish, lean meat, animal liver, etc.

2. The confinement meal menu should be diversified, including fish, meat, eggs, milk, whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables.

3. The confinement meal menu should include foods rich in calcium, which can help mothers secrete breast milk with a higher calcium content, which is beneficial to the baby's growth and development.

4. The confinement meal menu should include foods rich in iron, which can help postpartum mothers recover quickly and prevent postpartum anemia.

5. The confinement meal menu should include foods with sufficient water content, including liquid foods, soups, and fruits.

avoid:

1. The confinement diet should avoid cold or raw foods, and should also avoid irritating foods such as those that are too spicy or too salty.

2. The amount of confinement meals should not be too large. It is recommended to eat small meals frequently, which will help digestion and absorption of food.

3. The confinement meal menu should avoid hard and indigestible foods, which can easily increase the burden on the stomach and intestines and cause indigestion.

4. The confinement meal diet should avoid arranging too much of a certain food. It needs to be scientifically and reasonably matched. Various foods should be arranged, and attention should be paid to the combination of meat and vegetables.