What to eat in the first week after giving birth

During the childbirth process, women will consume a lot of physical energy and a large amount of blood, which will not only make the mother's body weak, but also cause loss of appetite, which is not conducive to the body's recovery. Moreover, due to the deficiency of qi and blood after childbirth, the body of a woman who has just given birth is too weak. If she takes a lot of supplements at this time, it will not be conducive to the body's recovery. So what should you eat in the first week after giving birth?

Maternity diet for the first week

During the delivery process, the mother will expend a lot of physical energy and blood, and needs to be recuperated and recovered after delivery, mainly through diet. After giving birth, mothers need to provide nutritious milk to their babies, so the physical health and nutritional requirements of mothers are very important. This depends on the mother's diet in the first week.

This week's staple food and side dishes are very monotonous, and Shenghua soup, sesame oil pork liver, barley rice, red bean rice and functional drinks should be eaten every day. Such food arrangement can make the efficacy of food better play.

1. Staple food: You must eat 1 serving of barley rice per day, and red bean rice (porridge), white rice (porridge) which have a tonic effect, warm glutinous rice oil rice, and sweet glutinous rice porridge (rice) can be eaten in moderation.

2. Side dishes: You must eat sesame oil pork liver, sesame oil pork heart, sesame oil fish, etc., which have a tonic effect, 1 portion per day. Due to the differences in the place of residence of the mothers, the fish used in the first week can be common tonic crucian carp, loach, and yellow croaker. No vegetables this week.

3. Snacks: black bean and red bean dishes, red bean soup, sunflower seeds, and hazelnuts, which have tonic effects.

4. Energy and food amount: The daily energy intake of a postpartum woman is about 2600kcal, with about 100 grams (raw) of staple food for each meal, about 1.5 bowls of rice to two bowls of rice or 2 large bowls of porridge, and a total of 250-400 grams of raw grain (including beans) per day; 150-200 grams of animal food (pork liver, fish, pig heart, eggs, etc.) per day. Because pork liver is rich in vitamin A, if consumed too much, it will cause vitamin A poisoning, so the daily intake of pork liver is 20-50g; this week should not be too much fruit, within 20 grams; 800-1200 ml of soup per day; this week should not be too much black sesame oil and rice wine, 25 grams of black sesame oil per day; about 2 grams of cooking salt; 30 grams of brown sugar per day.

What should a woman eat in the first week after giving birth?

Generally speaking, it takes about 24 hours for the gastrointestinal function of a mother to recover after delivery, and she should not eat before the gastrointestinal function recovers. After the mother's gastrointestinal function returns to normal, she should be given liquid food for one day, such as egg soup and rice soup, and avoid eating gas-producing foods such as milk, soy milk, and large amounts of sucrose. Two days after delivery, when the intestinal gas is discharged, you can switch to semi-liquid food for 1 to 2 days, such as porridge, noodle soup, wontons, etc. These foods are relatively simple to make and nutritious. Then switch to normal diet. The details are as follows:

1. 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)

2. Pork liver helps to discharge lochia and replenish blood, and is the best solid food choice for postpartum women.

3. Desserts can also help eliminate lochia.

4. Mothers with poor uterine contraction can take avocado oil to help smooth muscle contraction and improve constipation.

5. Fish and vitamin C help wound healing.

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

7. Chinese medicinal materials such as astragalus, wolfberry, and red dates can be added to medicinal dietary supplements.

What kind of fish is good for pregnant women to eat in the first week

1. Crucian carp: It has the functions of invigorating qi and strengthening the spleen, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, clearing away heat and detoxifying, and promoting the flow of milk. Patients with ascites can benefit from drinking soup cooked with fresh crucian carp and red beans. Stewing fresh crucian carp and pig's trotters together and drinking with the soup can cure postpartum women with insufficient milk. Crucian carp oil is beneficial to cardiovascular function, can also reduce blood viscosity and promote blood circulation.

2. Black fish: Black fish meat contains protein, fat, 18 kinds of amino acids, as well as calcium, phosphorus, iron and various vitamins necessary for the human body. It is suitable for people with weak body, hypoproteinemia, spleen and stomach qi deficiency, malnutrition, and anemia. It is helpful for postpartum women.

3. Carp: It has the functions of strengthening the spleen and appetite, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, relieving cough and asthma, calming the fetus and promoting lactation, clearing away heat and detoxifying. Boil carp, winter melon and green onion into soup and drink it to treat edema caused by nephritis. Drinking soup made from live carp and pig's trotters can treat insufficient milk production in pregnant women. Boil carp and a little Fritillaria cirrhosa powder into soup and drink it to treat cough and asthma.