What is the diet for the first week of confinement?

Confinement is very important for women’s health. At this time, women’s bodies are generally very weak and need sufficient nourishment to allow the body to recover as soon as possible. Therefore, diet in the first week of confinement has become a concern for many women. So, what is the diet for the first week of confinement? Let’s take a closer look below.

Meal benefits: Removes waste blood (lochia), waste water, waste gas and stale waste.

1. Shenghua Tang: Use seven servings for normal delivery and fourteen servings for caesarean section, 300cc per day.

2. Stir-fry 2 portions of pork liver with sesame oil. Use roasted old ginger, rice wine essence water (confinement water), and sesame oil to stir-fry.

3. Sweet glutinous rice porridge: two bowls a day.

4. Red bean soup: two bowls a day.

5. Fish soup: mullet, sea bass or yellow croaker, cooked with low-temperature baked sesame oil, rice wine extract and roasted ginger, one piece per day.

6. Confinement drinks: Eucommia health-care tea, or litchi shell tea, or longan and wolfberry tea. They can quench thirst and nourish the body. Drink them like boiled water, two cups a day, about 600cc in total.

7. Raw malt juice: For those who are weaning, take one bowl a day for three consecutive days (not necessary for breastfeeding). Please inform us in advance and drink it before your milk is swollen.

8. Barley rice: two bowls a day (don’t force yourself if you can’t finish it).

9. Special lactation-promoting soup: Octopus and pork trotter soup (for those who have no milk four days after delivery).

10. Papaya tea: for those with insufficient milk (three days after delivery).

11. Liver-nourishing Soup: nourishes and protects the liver, helping the liver improve its detoxification ability.

The above is an introduction to the diet menu for the first week of confinement. I think you should understand it. Diet for women in the first week of confinement is very important. Good nutrition can help women return to a healthy state as soon as possible. They should pay attention to a reasonable diet and get more rest to restore their weak body to a healthy level as soon as possible.