Postpartum diet
Release time : 03/12/2025 09:30:01
After pregnancy and childbirth, women reach a state of physical weakness that may be the most fragile in their lives.
Women need to supplement a lot of nutrition, and after childbirth, the stomach is weak.
In addition, some long-standing misunderstandings about postpartum eating can cause many women to suffer from constipation, obesity, increased lochia, etc.
So, what kind of postpartum diet is scientifically feasible? What should I do with postpartum recipes with different effects? Postpartum recipes to promote recovery foods that promote postnatal wound recovery include perch, pig's feet, seaweed, fungus, young pigeons, tomatoes, black beans and honey.
In addition to eating more foods rich in collagen and vitamins to promote wound healing, we should also pay attention to keeping the wound clean and clean and dressing changes frequently.
Shenghua Tang is a decoction that can promote uterine contraction and speed up the discharge of lochia. It can be eaten appropriately after childbirth.
Let's talk about the method of making biochemical soup below.
Ingredients: 10-15 grams of angelica, 10-15 grams of peach kernels, 6 grams of chuangchuan rhizome, 10 grams of black ginger, 3 grams of licorice, 50-100 grams of japonica rice, and appropriate amount of brown sugar. Practice: 1. First, the medicine is decocted, and the juice is removed.
2. Then, wash the cleaned japonica rice and cook it into a thin porridge.
Add brown sugar and serve.
Usage: Take it warm 1-2 times a day.
Efficacy: Promote blood circulation to dispel cold, remove blood stasis and stop bleeding.
It is suitable for postpartum abdominal pain due to stasis, refusal to press, unclear lochia, sluggish astringency, dark and lumps, or the complexion is pale and pale, and the limbs are not warm.
Precautions: Do not use it if there is continuous lochia caused by deficiency of qi and low blood.
Take the medicine for seven consecutive days for spontaneous delivery, fourteen consecutive days for cesarean section, and three consecutive weeks for those with weak system and poor resilience.
Six times a day, one or two mouthfuls of food before breakfast.
Calcium supplements in postpartum recipes Pregnancy and breastfeeding can cause calcium loss in women. Calcium deficiency will cause problems such as low back pain, leg pain, and osteoporosis to women.
Therefore, postpartum calcium supplementation is also very important.
1. Ingredients for carp tofu soup: 1 carp (about 250g), 400g of tofu, 5g of rice wine, 3g of chopped green onion and ginger slices each, 2g of refined salt, 1g of monosodium glutamate, 30g of cooking oil. Practice: Cut tofu into slices with 5 cm thickness, blanch with salt and boiling water for 5 minutes, then drain for later use.
Remove scales and intestines from crucian carp, wipe with wine, and salt for 10 minutes.
Place the pan on the fire, add cooking oil, cook for 5 minutes, saute the ginger slices until fragrant, fry the fish on both sides to yellow, add appropriate water, boil over low heat for 30 minutes, add the tofu slices, season, thin, and sprinkle with chopped green onion.
2. Black sesame porridge Material: 25 grams of black sesame seeds, appropriate amount of rice Practice: twist the black sesame seeds, wash the rice, add appropriate amount of water to boil into porridge.
2 or 3 times a day, or eat frequently with meals.
3. Ingredients of shrimp porridge: shrimp, 30 grams, 100 grams of japonica rice.
Practice: Cook porridge with water as usual. When the porridge is cooked until half cooked, add washed dried shrimp and serve it when the rice soup is thick.
Efficacy: This porridge is rich in nutrients and contains various nutrients such as protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, and iron. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this porridge strengthens the kidney and strengthens the yang, enriches the essence and channels the breast. It should be eaten frequently by postpartum nursing mothers who have insufficient milk secretion.
In the postpartum diet, women will milk on the day of natural labor, while women with caesarean section will milk 2-3 days later.
If a woman has no problem with mastitis, she can drink or eat the following lactating diet recipes: 1. * Pig Trotter Soup**: Pig trotters are rich in collagen, which helps in milk secretion. 2. * Soybean and Pork Ribs Soup**: Soybeans contain abundant plant estrogens, which promote milk secretion. 3. * Fish Soup**: Fish soup is very nourishing and can help with milk secretion. 4. * Black Sesame Porridge**: Black sesame is rich in Vitamin E and iron, which helps improve the quality of milk produced. 5. * Papaya Stewed Milk**: Papaya is rich in Vitamin C, which helps increase milk production. 6. * Peanut and Red Date Porridge**: Peanuts and red dates both contain high amounts of protein and minerals, which aid in milk secretion. 7. * Broccoli Stir-Fried Egg**: Broccoli is rich in folic acid and iron, which helps in milk production. 8. * Silver Carp Fried with Soy Sauce**: Silver carp contains protein and unsaturated fatty acids, which help in milk generation. 9. * Goji Berry Stewed Chicken**: Goji berries contain antioxidants, which help improve milk quality. 10. * Walnut and Sesame Porridge**: Walnuts and sesame are good sources of fat, which help in milk production. The above foods not only help with breastfeeding but also provide ample nutrition to help women recover physically.
Ingredients for Papaya and Peanuts: 750g of papaya, 150g of peanuts, 5 dates, and 3/2 blocks of rock sugar.
Practice: Peel the papaya, remove the core, and cut it into slices.
Put papaya, peanuts, dates and 8 bowls of water into the pot, add a piece of sugar, and cook on slow fire for 2 hours after the water boils.
2. Guiqi crucian carp: Raw materials: 1 crucian carp (half a catty), 10 grams of angelica, 15 grams of astragalus.
Practice: Wash the crucian carp, remove the internal organs and scales, and cook it with angelica and astragalus until cooked.
Drink soup and eat fish, take one dose daily.
Efficacy: The carp soup is delicious and nutritious. It can nourish yin blood, smooth blood circulation, eliminate stagnation, and smooth the meridians to lower the milk.
Add angelica and astragalus to replenish qi and nourish blood. It is a commonly used prescription for promoting lactation among the people.
3. Huangqi Pig Liver Soup Ingredients: 500 grams of pig liver, 60 grams of astragalus, a little refined salt Practice: Wash the pig liver.
Wash and slice the astragalus, wrap it in gauze, add appropriate amount of water to the casserole, add the astragalus bun and pig liver, and boil it into a soup. After cooking, remove the astragalus bun, slice the pig liver, add a little refined salt to season, and you can eat.
High-protein foods in postpartum recipes: High-protein foods include a variety of meats, eggs, beans and milk.
When carrying out protein supplementation after childbirth, pay attention to taking protein from different types of foods every day and taking what you need.
1. Steamed eggs with peanut pork minced meat, ingredients: 3 eggs, 50g pork.
5g minced green onion and 5g white powder each, 10g soy sauce, 2g refined salt, 0.5g monosodium glutamate, 25g cooking oil. Practice: Beat the eggs into a bowl and stir, add refined salt, monosodium glutamate, and water (appropriate amount), stir well, place them on the cage and steam.
Choose pork that is 30% fat and 70% lean, and chop it into powder.
Place the pan on the fire, add the cooking oil and heat it up, add the minced meat, stir-fry until it is loose and the oil comes out, add the minced green onion, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate and water (appropriate amount), mix well with white rice and water, thicken, and pour on the steamed eggs. Serve.
2. Ingredients for Pork Hand Soup: Pork Hoof, Peanuts, Salt, MSG, cooking wine, slices of ginger, and slices of green onion, each in a little.
Preparation: Place pig's feet in a hot pot, add water and boil it, skim off the foam, put in green onion, ginger slices, cooking wine, simmer on low heat for 2-3 hours until the soup becomes milky white. Add salt and monosodium glutamate, stir well.
3. Braised Chicken in Soup Bowls: Ingredients: 2 pieces of chicken.
Salt, soy sauce, sweet bean sauce, sugar, monosodium glutamate, star anise, starch, Sichuan pepper oil, minced green onions, minced ginger, vegetable oil.
Method: Clean the chicken, remove feathers and innards, cut off feet and claws, put it into a pot and boil for half an hour, then take it out and rinse it. Cut it into pieces.
Heat oil in a pan, add bay leaves and fry them briefly, then remove. Sauté the onion and ginger until fragrant, then add sweet bean sauce, chicken pieces, and add broth to cover; bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce heat to simmer until meat is tender and sauce is thickened. Add MSG and drizzle with sesame oil before serving.
Postpartum Dietary Recommendations: High-fiber foods can help alleviate the challenges of constipation after childbirth, as well as prevent conditions such as hemorrhoids, rectal prolapse, and anal fissures.
Ingredients for Lotus Root and Oatmeal Porridge: - 90g rice, - 20g oats, - 100g lotus root, - 50g pork loin, - 30g carrot, - 1tsp salt.
Method: Clean the ingredients.
Cut the lotus root into slices, carrot into shreds, and pork loin into shreds.
Add rice to the pot, boil it with water, add oatmeal and lotus root slices, then bring the pot to a boil over high heat. Once boiling, turn down the heat to low and simmer until the mixture thickens.
Add carrot shreds and pork tenderloin slices to cook until done, then season with salt.
2. Celery Porridge: Ingredients: 90g rice, 3 celery stalks, 1/4 tsp of salt Instructions: Soak the rice in water for 30 minutes.
Cut the celery into segments without removing the root.
Put the rice into a pot, add water, and bring to a boil over high heat. Then turn down the heat and simmer slowly.
Put the rice into a pot and cook until it is almost done. Then add the celery and cook until it is soft, then season with salt to taste.
There are some long-standing dietary habits in postpartum care that, for example, exclude vegetables and emphasize large amounts of meat. However, these are incorrect practices.
What are the correct dietary considerations for postpartum care? 1. Drinking high-fat soup can affect appetite and body shape.
Simultaneously, high-fat diets can also increase the fat content in breast milk, making newborns unable to tolerate and absorb it, which could cause diarrhea.
2. Postpartum, the digestive system needs time to recover. Therefore, you can choose relatively easy-to-digest foods for several days after giving birth.
You can transition from porridge to noodles and then into rice, and finally on to the staples.
3. Eat small, frequent meals, but don't overeat.
4. It is best to focus on natural foods and not take too much nutrients.
5. Drink more warm boiled water and avoid cold drinks.
6. Don't control the amount of your diet in order to restore your body.
For mothers during confinement, especially nursing mothers, they should ensure sufficient calorie intake. Nursing mothers should consume 700 more calories per day than normal women.
7. Ensure the intake of calcium and iron supplements.
Because new mothers lose a lot of calcium and iron during pregnancy and labor, they should ensure that they get enough calcium and iron from their food every day. The daily intake of calcium should be no less than 1.1 grams and iron should be 20 mg.
8. In the two weeks following childbirth, avoid consuming large quantities of meat.
Before gastrointestinal function is restored, fish and meat can be boiled into soup and eaten, and meat can be eaten two weeks later.
Soup that is not greasy enough should be eaten with caution.
* The medical part covered in this article is for reading and reference only.
If you feel unwell, it is recommended to seek medical attention immediately, and the medical diagnosis and treatment will be subject to offline diagnosis.