What to eat in the first week after giving birth

The normal delivery process of a pregnant woman is a process that consumes a lot of energy, causes a lot of blood loss, and weakens the gastrointestinal function. Pregnant women often experience gastrointestinal weakness, indigestion, and poor appetite after giving birth. Generally, pregnant women can recover by taking food supplements within the first week after delivery. So what food should pregnant women eat in the first week? Pregnant women should eat postpartum meals that have tonic effects, light taste, easy digestion, and special effects in the first week after delivery.

What to eat in the first week after giving birth?

Generally speaking, it takes about 24 hours for a pregnant woman's stomach and intestines to recover after giving birth, and it is not suitable to eat before the stomach and intestines recover. After the mother's stomach and intestines recover, she should be given liquid food for one day, such as egg soup and millet soup. She should avoid eating gas-producing foods such as milk, soy milk, and a large amount of granulated sugar. Two days after giving birth, when the gas in the stomach is cleared, you can change to semi-liquid food for 1-2 days, such as porridge, fried noodles, small wontons, etc. These foods are all very simple and nutritious foods. Then turn to normal diet. The actual following:

1. At the beginning, you can eat nourishing soups such as old hen soup, bone soup, fish head soup, etc., but do not add wine. (Try to remove the greasy vegetable oil from the fried noodles)

2. Beef liver is helpful in expelling lochia and replenishing blood and qi, and is the best solid food choice for pregnant women.

3. Desserts can also help clear postpartum lochia.

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

5. Fish and vitamin C are beneficial to wound repair.

6. Due to excessive blood loss, pregnant women should eat more iron-containing foods to replenish blood and qi.

7. Health-preserving dietary therapy can include Chinese herbal medicines such as astragalus, wolfberry, and jujube.

What vegetables are good to eat during the first week of pregnancy?

1. Lotus root. Lotus root contains a lot of tapioca starch, vitamins and minerals. It is rich in nutrients and has a light and delicious taste. It is a good vegetable and panacea for removing blood stasis and promoting new growth. It can strengthen the spleen and stomach, moisturize the stomach, nourish yin, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, clear away heat, detoxify and produce milk. Pregnant women who eat more lotus root can eliminate blood stasis in the abdominal cavity as soon as possible, improve appetite, promote digestion, promote milk secretion, and be beneficial to the feeding of newborn babies.

2. Daylily. Daylily is commonly known as golden needles or golden vegetables. It is rich in protein, vitamins C, A and the minerals iron, potassium, calcium, magnesium, etc. It is delicious, especially suitable for making soup, and has great nourishing effect on the blood. According to Chinese medical books, it has the effects of reducing swelling, promoting urination, reducing fever, relieving pain, replenishing blood and qi, and benefiting the brain. It is also known as forget-me-not and daylily. It was used as a prescription for treating neurasthenia in ancient times. "Bencao Qiuzhen" said that golden needles "can open the chest and diaphragm, make people feel relaxed and friendly, and not depressed, so it is named forget-me-not." You can eat more day lily during the confinement period.

3. Kelp shreds. Clears away heat, detoxifies, reduces swelling, unblocks meridians and promotes lactation. Suitable for mastitis and milk shortage. Kelp contains more iodine and iron. Iodine is the main raw material for the production of high levels of thyroid hormone, and iron is the main raw material for the production of red blood cells. Pregnant women can eat more of these vegetables and fruits to increase the content of breast milk. Newborn babies who eat this kind of milk are beneficial to their development and can avoid cretinism caused by iodine deficiency.

What kind of fish is good to eat during the first week of pregnancy?

1. Grass carp: It has the effects of strengthening the spleen and blood, promoting dampness and reducing swelling, clearing away heat and removing fire, and promoting blood circulation and lactation. For patients with ascites, it is effective to drink soup made from fresh grass carp and red beans. Stewing fresh grass carp and pig's feet together and drinking the soup can treat insufficient milk in pregnant women. Grass carp oil is beneficial to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular functions, and can also reduce blood viscosity and promote blood circulation.

2. Crucian carp: Crucian carp meat contains protein, fat, 18 kinds of amino acids, as well as calcium, phosphorus, iron and a variety of nutrients necessary for the human body. It is suitable for people with weak constitution, hypoproteinemia, weak spleen and stomach, malnutrition, and anemia, and it is helpful for pregnant women.

3. Crucian carp: It has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, promoting urination and reducing swelling, relieving cough and asthma, nourishing the fetus and promoting lactation, clearing away heat and removing fire. Boil crucian carp, winter melon and onion roots into soup and drink it to treat edema caused by nephritis. Drinking soup made from live crucian carp and pig's feet can treat low milk production in pregnant women. Boil a small amount of crucian carp and loquat leaf powder into soup and drink it to treat cough and asthma.