What to eat one week after giving birth?

The first week after childbirth is a critical week for mothers to recover and adapt to physical changes. Mothers should pay special attention to their diet this week. They should not take a lot of supplements, but should take it step by step. Let's take a look at how to eat~

Principles of nutritional meal planning for pregnant women one week after delivery

After delivery, the hormone level in the body drops significantly and the body consumes excessive energy and blood. Therefore, the first meal after delivery should be easily digestible, nutritious liquid food.

For 5-7 days after delivery, the staple food should be rice porridge, soft rice, soft noodles, egg soup, etc.

After 7 days after delivery, the appetite is normal, and fish, meat, eggs, chicken, etc. can be increased. But don't be too full. Within 1 month after delivery, it is advisable to have multiple meals a day, and 5-6 meals a day are appropriate.

Diet in the first week after cesarean section

Gastrointestinal function can be restored about 24 hours after cesarean section. After gastrointestinal function is restored, liquid food is given for one day, such as egg soup and rice soup. Milk, soy milk, large amounts of sucrose and other flatulent foods are avoided. After the intestinal gas is discharged, semi-liquid food is used for 1-2 days, such as porridge, noodle soup, wonton, etc., and then switched to normal diet.

1. At first, 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 women who have undergone cesarean section.

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.

Diet in the first week after childbirth

In the first week after a normal delivery, the mother will experience great physical exhaustion, blood loss, weak stomach and intestines, and loss of appetite. She can eat tonic meals that are light, easy to digest, and have special effects.

The following is a first-week diet plan for women who are expecting a normal delivery with light labor. This diet plan ensures the daily intake of nutrients and includes recovery foods with certain functions, so as to help women pass gas, heal wounds, contract the uterus, activate blood circulation, and promote the discharge of lochia.

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 1 serving of sesame oil pork liver, sesame oil pork heart, sesame oil fish, etc., which have a tonic effect. Due to the difference in the place of residence of the parturient, the fish used in the first week can be common crucian carp, loach, and yellow croaker, which have a tonic effect. You cannot eat 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; soup 800-1200 ml per day; this week should not be too much black sesame oil and rice wine consumption, 25 grams of black sesame oil per day; about 2 grams of cooking salt; 30 grams of brown sugar per day.

Dietary taboos for pregnant women in the first week

The diet of a mother in the first week of pregnancy plays a very important role in both the recovery of the mother and the quality of the baby's milk. This is an unchanging truth across time and space. Protein has a relatively good effect on wound healing and the acquisition of nutrition for mothers and babies. Therefore, some remote mountainous areas or rural areas provide nearly 10 eggs to mothers every day. Is this a scientific way of supplementing? Although eggs are nutritious, excessive consumption of eggs is not conducive to the digestion and absorption of mothers and babies. So let's take a look at the dietary taboos of mothers in the first week of pregnancy.

1. Avoid eating too much MSG

In order to prevent zinc deficiency in infants, new mothers should avoid excessive consumption of MSG. Generally speaking, it is beneficial and harmless for adults to eat MSG, but it is not good for infants, especially those under 12 weeks old, if the mothers during breastfeeding consume excessive MSG while taking a high-protein diet. This is because the sodium glutamate in MSG will enter the baby's body through breast milk. Excessive sodium glutamate has a serious impact on the development of infants, especially those under 12 weeks old. It can specifically bind to the zinc in the baby's blood to produce glutamate that cannot be absorbed by the body, while the zinc is excreted in the urine, resulting in zinc deficiency in the baby. In this way, the baby is not only prone to poor taste and anorexia, but also mental retardation, growth retardation and other adverse consequences.

2. Avoid taking ginseng in a hurry

Some new mothers are eager to take ginseng after giving birth to replenish their bodies. In fact, it is harmful rather than beneficial for new mothers to take ginseng to replenish their bodies. Ginseng contains a variety of effective ingredients, which can produce a wide range of excitatory effects on the human body. Among them, the excitatory effect on the central nervous system of the human body can cause the user to experience insomnia, irritability, restlessness and other adverse reactions. New mothers who have just given birth have consumed a lot of energy and physical strength and need to rest in bed. If they take ginseng at this time, it will be difficult to sleep due to excitement, which will affect the recovery of energy.

3. Avoid eating too many eggs

Medical research shows that it is best not to eat eggs within a few hours after delivery. Because during the delivery process, the new mother consumes a lot of physical energy, sweats a lot, lacks body fluids, and the digestive ability decreases accordingly. If you eat eggs immediately after delivery, it will be difficult to digest and increase the gastrointestinal burden. Within a few hours after delivery, it is advisable to eat a semi-liquid or liquid diet. During the entire puerperium period, according to the national nutritional standards for pregnant and new mothers, about 100 grams of protein is needed every day. Therefore, eating 3 to 4 eggs a day is enough. Excessive consumption of eggs will also increase the gastrointestinal burden and even easily cause stomach problems.

4. Avoid eating too much brown sugar

Brown sugar is rich in nutrition, releases energy quickly, has high nutrient absorption and utilization rate, and has warming and tonic properties. After giving birth, new mothers lose some blood and are weak, so they need to quickly supplement trace elements and proteins such as iron, calcium, manganese, zinc, etc. Brown sugar also contains "Motherwort" ingredients, which can promote uterine contraction, discharge postpartum intrauterine blood congestion, and promote early recovery of the uterus. After giving birth, new mothers are greatly damaged and have weak constitutions. Eating some brown sugar has the effects of nourishing qi and blood, strengthening the spleen and warming the stomach, dispelling wind and cold, and promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. However, new mothers must not eat more because brown sugar has so many benefits, thinking that the more the better. Because drinking too much brown sugar water will not only damage the teeth of new mothers, but also brown sugar is warm in nature. If new mothers drink too much brown sugar water in summer, they will definitely accelerate sweating, make the body weaker, and even suffer from heatstroke. In addition, brown sugar water should be boiled before drinking, and should not be used immediately after flushing with boiling water, because brown sugar is prone to bacteria during storage and transportation, which may cause disease.

5. Avoid hard, rough, and cold foods

The spleen and stomach functions of new mothers have not yet fully recovered. Excessively cold food will damage the spleen and stomach and affect digestion. Raw and cold food can easily cause blood stasis, which can cause abdominal pain and postpartum lochia. In addition, new mothers should try not to eat leftovers that have been stored for a long time. New mothers should also avoid eating foods that are prone to allergies, such as seafood, otherwise they are prone to allergies or bacterial infections, which will directly affect the health of breastfeeding babies. However, fresh fruits are not included in the "taboos". Fruits have the function of promoting appetite, helping digestion and excretion, so there is no need to avoid eating them because they are "too cold". In addition, fruits placed indoors will not be so cold as to stimulate the digestive organs of new mothers and affect their health.

6. Avoid drinking a lot of boiled water

Generally, new mothers will experience edema in the late stages of pregnancy, and the postpartum confinement period is the golden period for physical recovery. During this period, all the accumulated water in the body should be discharged as much as possible. If you drink a lot of water, it may not be conducive to physical recovery.

If the mother who has a cesarean section may need to take some medication, she still needs to drink an appropriate amount of water, but do not drink a large amount of water at one time. Instead, drink the appropriate amount in several times.

7. Avoid sour and salty foods

Acidic and salty foods can easily cause water to accumulate, which affects the body's water elimination. In addition, the sodium ions in salty foods can easily increase the viscosity of the blood, which affects metabolism and slows blood circulation. It is best for new mothers to avoid acidic and salty foods during confinement.

Some new mothers drink vinegar to lose weight quickly. In fact, this is not a good idea. Because all parts of a new mother's body are relatively weak, they need a recovery process, and they are very vulnerable to damage during this period. Acidic foods can damage teeth and leave new mothers with the legacy of easy toothache in the future. Vinegar contains about 3% to 4% acetic acid. If it is only used as a condiment, the contact time with teeth is very short, so it will not cause any adverse effects in the body, and it can also promote appetite. Therefore, there is no need to contraindicate vinegar as a condiment. Overly salty foods have the effect of reducing milk production. Today, when breastfeeding is advocated, new mothers should have a lighter taste.

8. Avoid eating barley and its products

Barley and its products, such as barley malt, malt extract, maltose and other foods have the effect of weaning, so new mothers who are still breastfeeding after giving birth should avoid eating them.

9. Avoid spicy and hot foods

After childbirth, new mothers lose a lot of blood and sweat, and more interstitial fluid enters the blood circulation, so the body's yin fluid is obviously insufficient. Spicy and hot foods will damage the body fluid, causing new mothers to get angry, mouth sores, constipation or hemorrhoids, and will aggravate the baby's internal heat through breast milk. Therefore, new mothers should avoid eating leeks, onions, garlic, chili peppers, pepper, fennel, wine, etc.

10. Avoid eating greasy food

Since the gastrointestinal distension and peristalsis of new mothers after childbirth are weak, they should eat less greasy foods such as fatty meat, lard, peanuts, etc. to avoid indigestion. For the same reason, fried foods are also difficult to digest, so new mothers should not eat too much. In addition, the nutrients of fried foods have been lost a lot during the frying process, and the nutritional content is worse than that of pasta and other foods. Eating more fried foods will not increase nutrition for new mothers, but will increase the burden on the stomach.

New mothers should eat light food, especially within 5-7 days after delivery. They should mainly eat rice porridge, soft rice, egg soup, vegetables, etc. Do not eat too greasy food, such as chicken, pig's trotters, etc. If the stomach digestion function is normal 5 days after delivery, you can eat fish, meat, chicken, pig's trotters, ribs, etc. 4-6 meals a day, but do not eat too much or too greasy.

11. Avoid eating old hens

Since old hens are rich in nutrients and are a good tonic, the Chinese people have always had the habit of stewing old hens for the mothers after giving birth to achieve the purpose of nourishing the mother's body. However, in life, it is found that many mothers who immediately take old hens and other nutritious foods still have insufficient milk or very little lactation, which cannot meet the needs of the baby. In fact, one of the reasons for insufficient milk or no milk is eating old hens immediately after giving birth.

Old hens are rich in nutrients, so why would eating them cause milk to dry up? This is because after a woman gives birth, the levels of estrogen and progesterone in her blood are greatly reduced, and only then can prolactin play a role in promoting the formation of milk. Hen meat contains a certain amount of estrogen, so eating old hens immediately after giving birth will increase the estrogen content in the mother's blood, inhibiting the effectiveness of prolactin, so that it cannot play a role, resulting in insufficient milk and even milk drying up. Androgens have the effect of counteracting estrogen, and rooster meat contains a small amount of androgens. If a mother eats a steamed rooster immediately, her milk will increase.