Nutritious meals for confinement

Confinement is one of the most important aspects of traditional Chinese health culture. It is a process in which the mother's entire body and mind are comprehensively cared for and restored after childbirth. If the female reproductive system, endocrine system, and psychology are not promptly and scientifically cared for and repaired during the confinement period, a series of serious sequelae will be left behind. Therefore, confinement is very important for postpartum mothers. This article will introduce to mothers how to arrange their diet after childbirth so that they can have a better confinement.

1. Daily diet for the first week (day 1 to day 7)

1. Lamb liver: stir-fry with ginger, rice wine, and sesame oil, 300-500 grams per day

2. Shenghua Tang: Soak in rice wine and stew. For natural births, use 7 doses (days) and for caesarean births, use 14 doses (days)

3. Liver-nourishing soup: Soak with whole rice wine. For those who have undergone cesarean section, drink 280ml per day.

4. Sweet glutinous rice porridge: Cook with whole rice wine, two bowls a day

5. Red bean soup: Cook with rice wine, two bowls a day

6. Black croaker or yellow croaker: Cook with low-temperature baked sesame oil, rice wine, and old ginger, one bowl a day.

2. Daily diet for the second week (Day 8 to Day 14)

1. Lamb kidney: stir-fry with ginger, rice wine, and sesame oil. Use one serving (two pieces) per day.

2. Shenghua Tang: It is made by boiling rice wine. Patients who have given birth by caesarean section should drink it until the 14th day, while those who have given birth naturally can drink it for 7 days.

3. Liver nourishing soup: brewed with whole rice wine, for caesarean section delivery, natural delivery can be used for 7 days, 280 ml per day

4. Oily rice or sweet glutinous rice porridge: Cook with whole rice wine. Choose one every day, a bowl of oily rice or a bowl of sweet glutinous rice porridge

5. Red bean soup: Cook with rice wine, 2 bowls a day

6. Black croaker or yellow croaker: Cook with low-temperature roasted sesame oil, rice wine, and old ginger, one bowl a day

7. Vegetables: carrots, red cabbage or red cabbage, choose one, two bowls a day

8. Soak lychee shell or hawthorn in water: quench your thirst, choose one, one bowl a day

3. Daily diet for the third and fourth weeks (from the fifteenth day to the full moon)

1. Sesame Oil Chicken: Cook with a whole chicken. Eat half a chicken and three bowls of it every day. A whole chicken is three bowls of it each time.

2. Red bean soup: Sweet glutinous rice porridge or oily rice: Cook with whole rice wine, choose one, one serving per day

3. Fish: Both black and red fish can be cooked with rice wine, a large bowl a day

4. Vegetables: lotus white + carrot or spinach, A vegetable, red vegetable, and hair vegetable. Cook with rice wine, 2 bowls a day

5. Soak lychee shell or hawthorn in water: quench your thirst, choose one, one bowl a day

6. Fruits: cantaloupe, papaya, seedless grapes, lotus, cherry, peach, same as every day, two servings

7. Noodles: one serving per day, cooked with rice wine

8. Peanut lamb’s feet: It is eaten by mothers who have no milk or have light milk. It is cooked with whole rice wine.

Having a baby is a very happy thing for every mother, but the mother's body is exhausted after giving birth, and she also has to produce enough milk to feed the baby. Therefore, you should eat nutritious and healthy food every day during the confinement period. However, many new mothers take random nutritional supplements during the confinement period, but the results are not satisfactory. It is certainly important to nourish your body during the confinement period, but you must master scientific eating habits, otherwise it will backfire.