What will happen if you eat hard food during confinement?

To put it simply, confinement is the period of time for recuperation after giving birth. During this period, there are many things that the mother needs to pay attention to, and she also needs to prepare appropriate maternal and child supplies. Although it is a bit troublesome to do the above, it is worth it considering the health of mother and child. The reason why many women become ill in middle age is often because they did not pay special attention during confinement. So, what will happen if you eat hard food during the confinement period?

It is best not to eat hard food, cold, spicy or irritating food during the confinement period. Hard food is difficult to digest and can easily cause adverse symptoms, and it is also bad for your teeth. Don't eat hard food during the confinement period. Make sure to get more rest, avoid fatigue, and strengthen nutrition. Drinking more soups such as pig trotter soup, crucian carp soup, pork ribs soup, etc., can have a certain effect on the secretion of milk.

Dietary principles

The Chinese Dietary Guidelines for Lactating Women put forward the following dietary principles for confinement meals:

1. Increase the intake of fish, poultry, eggs, lean meat and seafood.

2. Drink more milk and soup.

3. Eat a variety of foods but not too much during the postpartum period.

4. Avoid smoking, drinking, and strong tea and coffee.

5. Maintain a healthy weight through scientific activities and exercise.

6. Pay attention to the combination of dry and liquid foods, meat and vegetables, avoid picky eating, and eat light, appropriate and easy to digest.

Recommended recipes

The following is a recipe recommended by the Obstetrics and Gynecology Nutrition Department of the Center. You can choose to eat it without violating the dietary principles of confinement meals.

1. Nutritious recipes

Broccoli with dried shrimp, cabbage stewed with meat and kelp, spinach with egg and black fungus, dried loofah with diced meat, homemade crucian carp (small yellow croaker), osmanthus shrimp, celery with shredded chicken and bean curd, fried fish fillets, braised wild rice stem in oil, tomato and beef stew with potatoes, stir-fried liver tips, stir-fried zucchini with tomatoes, and meat and egg custard.

2. Nutritious soups

Crucian carp and tofu soup, seafood and vegetable soup, peanut chicken feet soup, assorted mushroom chicken soup, pigeon and green vegetable soup, silver carp and loofah soup, dried shrimp and seaweed soup, cabbage and pork ribs soup, and assorted fruit soup.

3. Nutritious porridge

Millet and jujube porridge, rice, donkey-hide gelatin and jujube porridge, black sesame porridge, yam and lotus seed fragrant rice porridge, bone soup peanut porridge, beef (chicken) porridge, three fresh meat porridge, corn residue and sweet potato porridge, eight-treasure porridge, black rice, peach kernel and red date porridge, carrot porridge, and carp juice porridge.