What to eat after giving birth

Many women have no choice but to choose cesarean section when giving birth due to their own reasons. Cesarean section is particularly harmful to the body because not only the belly but also the uterus must be cut open. After the fetus is taken out, it must be sewed up again. Therefore, the recovery time after cesarean section is longer than that of natural birth. In terms of nutrition, you should eat better and eat some foods that help wound recovery. So what is better to eat after a cesarean section?

What to eat after a cesarean section

The diet within one week after a caesarean section should be light and nutritious. It is best to avoid eating cold and spicy foods, and it is not advisable to take too much tonic food. You can eat vegetables and fruits. Rice porridge, eggs, noodles, etc. are the best foods within one week after caesarean section. Rice porridge, eggs, noodles, crucian carp soup, etc., these are the best diets after cesarean section. Let’s take a look at the menu prepared by the editor for mothers within one week of cesarean section!

1. Day 1: a cup of radish water, a cup of boiled water, and rice porridge.

The mother can eat only 6 hours after cesarean section when the intestines are discharged.

2. Day 2:

Breakfast: Homemade millet porridge, or boiled eggs in water, which is nutritious and tastes good;

Lunch: Millet porridge or soft noodles. Noodle soup can be crucian carp soup or something like that.

Dinner: white rice porridge (with a few lettuce leaves), radish soup, rice wine and eggs (add a little brown sugar to expel lochia, rice wine and eggs to increase milk production) and the Chinese medicine Rhizoma Lulutong (to clear the milk ducts).

3. Day 3:

Breakfast: white rice porridge (mix it with some millet), a meat bun stuffed with some fermented glutinous rice (don’t eat the meat filling, it has the effect of boosting milk secretion).

Lunch: White rice porridge (mixed with some millet).

Dinner: white rice porridge (mixed with some red dates), stir-fried chicken greens, and good luck.

4. Day 4

Breakfast: black rice porridge (with wolfberry) and a red bean paste bun.

Lunch: Crucian carp soup (to increase lactation), add an egg.

Dinner: Black fish soup (for wound recovery), stir-fried mushrooms with Chinese cabbage, red bean and white fungus soup

5. Day 5

Breakfast: rice porridge, a red bean paste bun

Lunch: Crucian carp soup with vegetables and noodles

Dinner: Black fish soup, stir-fried Chinese cabbage with black fungus, white rice porridge with a few red dates

6. Day 6

Breakfast: rice porridge, a red bean paste bun, half a steamed bun