Foods that promote uterine contractions

After a woman gives birth, the recovery of the uterus is very important to her physical health. After 10 months of gestating the fetus and giving birth to a baby, the uterus becomes very loose. It takes some time for the uterus to return to its normal condition. In order to help the uterus recover, women can eat some foods that help uterine contraction after giving birth.

Foods that promote uterine contractions

Don't eat seafood, longan, wine, brown sugar, spicy food, cigarettes, tea and coffee. And foods that you think can invigorate blood circulation.

Eat more nuts, dates and other foods that replenish qi and blood. The fetus must have enough qi and blood to nourish.

Generally speaking, uterine contractions are a normal physiological phenomenon, but if they are too frequent in the late pregnancy, they may lead to premature birth of the fetus. Therefore, in addition to avoiding eating foods that cause uterine contractions, you should also pay more attention to maintaining a good attitude when uterine contractions occur, get enough rest, and avoid stimulating your abdomen.

1. Pregnant women should not eat hawthorn fruit and its products. Modern medicine has confirmed that hawthorn has a contraction effect on women's uterus. If pregnant women eat a lot of hawthorn food, it will stimulate uterine contraction and even cause miscarriage.

2. Pregnant women should avoid eating hot foods, because hot foods increase the heat in the human body and hinder the body from gathering blood to nourish the fetus. Lychees and longans happen to be such fruits. Pregnant women taboo

3. Pregnant women should avoid eating irritating foods: coffee, strong tea, spicy foods, drinking, and husbands smoking, etc., which will have adverse effects on the fetus, affect normal development, and even cause fetal malformations.

4. Ginseng is a tonic for vital energy. If expectant mothers abuse ginseng for tonic, it may lead to excessive qi and deficiency of yin, which may easily cause getting angry; it may also cause symptoms such as vomiting, edema and high blood pressure, and may cause dangerous situations such as spotting, miscarriage and premature birth. In addition, expectant mothers should not take supplements such as deer antler, deer placenta, and royal jelly.

Recipes to promote uterine contraction after childbirth

1. Tianma Angelica Turtle Soup

Ingredients: 600g soft-shelled turtle, 20g Gastrodia elata, 20g Angelica sinensis, 40g jujube (dried), 3g ginger, and appropriate amount of salt.

Preparation method: Put the raw fish (about 640 grams) into boiling water to drain the urine. Scrape and clean the raw fish (soft-shelled turtle), remove the internal organs, wash the Gastrodia elata and Angelica root with water, slice them, wash the red dates with water, remove the cores, put all the ingredients into a stewing pot, add cold boiled water, cover it, put it into the pot, stew it in water for 4 hours, add fine salt to taste.

2. Pork kidney with angelica

Ingredients: 500 grams of pork kidney, 10 grams of angelica, 10 grams of Codonopsis, 10 grams of yam (dried), 10 grams of soy sauce, 5 grams of ginger, 10 grams of garlic (white skin), 2 grams of sesame oil, and 25 grams of vinegar.

Preparation: Cut the pork kidney, wash it, put the angelica, codonopsis and yam into a gauze bag, tie it tightly and put them into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, wait until the pork kidney is cooked, take it out and cool it, then cut it into thin slices and put it on a plate, mix the soy sauce, vinegar, shredded ginger, minced garlic, sesame oil, etc., and pour it on top.