There are many ways to make chicken soup for pregnant women. One week after giving birth, you can make soups that are beneficial to maternal nutritional supplements, such as dangshen and astragalus stewed chicken soup, wolfberry stewed chicken soup, etc.

How to make chicken soup for pregnant women

After giving birth, the mother’s body will be much weaker than before pregnancy. During the body's recovery period, attention needs to be paid to nutritional supplements. During the confinement period, mothers can recover by drinking chicken stew. There are many chicken stews suitable for pregnant women. Here are a few home-cooked soups recommended.

1. Codonopsis and Astragalus Stewed Chicken Soup

Ingredients: 50g astragalus, 15g wolfberry, 10 red dates, 1 hen (about 1000 g), 2 slices of ginger, appropriate amount of salt and rice wine .

Method: Wash the astragalus, wolfberry, and ginger slices and put them in a filter bag. Wash the hen, blanch it, cool it, cut it into pieces, and put it in the pot together with the red dates. Add water, simmer over low heat for 1 hour, then add salt and rice wine and serve.

2. Chicken Soup with Melon

Ingredients: 1/4 native chicken, 100g melon, 30g ginger, 1 green onion, appropriate amount of water.

Method: Cut the native chicken into small pieces, blanch it in boiling water for 1 minute and take it out. Cut the melon into cubes, peel and slice the ginger, and cut the green onions into sections. Put the above ingredients and water into the pot, bring to a boil, then turn off the heat and simmer for about 3 minutes.

3. Wolfberry stewed chicken soup

Ingredients: 100g wolfberry, 800g chicken, 60g rice wine, 15g sesame oil, 15g salad oil, 2g ginger, 2g salt.

Method: Wash the chicken, cut it into pieces, and marinate in wine, sesame oil, and ginger for half an hour. After the oil is heated in the pot, add the marinated chicken pieces into the pot and stir-fry over high heat for 3 minutes. Add 1000g of water, wine, wolfberry and salt, and cook over high heat for 10 minutes until cooked.

4. Red dates and chicken soup

Ingredients: 1 three-yellow chicken, 10 red dates, appropriate amount of salt, 2 slices of ginger.

Method: Remove the internal organs from the chicken, cut it into large pieces, and put it in boiling water. Put the chicken into the soup pot and add water until the water just covers the chicken. After cooking for 10 minutes, add red dates and salt, add two slices of ginger, cook over medium heat for 1 hour, add a small amount of salt to taste and drink.

The benefits of drinking chicken stew for postpartum women

There are many benefits of drinking chicken stew for postpartum women. It can not only provide nutritional supplements to the mother, but also improve her immunity, especially if she catches a cold during lactation. For pregnant women, taking chicken soup can promote recovery. In addition, drinking chicken soup within 5-7 days after delivery can help the mother produce milk and allow the baby to have sufficient milk to drink.

1. Nutritional supplement: Chicken and other ingredients in chicken soup have high nutritional value. When making chicken soup at home, the nutrients contained in chicken oil, chicken skin, chicken and chicken bones can be dissolved into the soup, and Most of the chicken fat in the soup is saturated fatty acid (the higher the degree of unsaturated fatty acid, the higher the nutritional value), which can provide nutritional supplements to the mother.

2. Improve resistance: Chicken soup has the characteristics of improving the body's immune function. Pregnant women usually drink more chicken soup. Especially when returning to Nantian, some mothers are prone to colds but dare not take medicine. At this time, they can choose to drink chicken. , chicken soup can inhibit the production of mucous membranes, help reduce nasal congestion and throat pain, and allow the body to recover as soon as possible.

3. Drink chicken soup 5-7 days after delivery to promote lactation: If there is less milk after delivery, you can drink soup with less estrogen to promote lactation. At this time, you can make rooster soup for the mother (do not use hens). The androgens contained in roosters have anti-oestrogenic effects, so drinking a bowl of rooster soup is of great benefit to breast milk secretion. Moreover, roosters have less fat than hens, which is beneficial to preventing postpartum obesity and nutrient absorption of babies. However, it should be noted that drinking chicken soup to induce lactation should be done 5 days after delivery, because the mother is relatively weak in the first few days after delivery, so she should drink more hot foods such as brown sugar water and millet porridge. Chicken soup should be consumed 5 days after delivery. , drink when milk begins to be secreted.

4. Can regulate postpartum diseases. Chicken is rich in nutritional value, especially black-bone chicken, which contains lysine, methionine and histidine that are indispensable to the human body and has nourishing and medicinal value. Pregnant women drink stewed chicken soup, which can nourish yin, nourish kidneys, nourish blood, add essence, benefit liver, reduce fever and tonify deficiency. It has a good therapeutic effect on postpartum women who are physically weak, have insufficient milk, anemia, irregular menstruation, cold uterus, dysmenorrhea, metrorrhagia, vaginal bleeding, and are thin.

When can pregnant women drink chicken soup?

Many people think that pregnant women can drink chicken soup after giving birth. In fact, this idea is wrong. It usually takes one week after giving birth to be suitable. Drinking chicken soup too early may easily lead to less milk, no milk, or return of milk, which is not conducive to baby feeding.

Generally speaking, chicken soup can be made for pregnant women one week after delivery. The main reason is that the mother is weak after giving birth and her gastrointestinal function has not fully recovered. Moreover, during the delivery process, the mother's body loses a lot of water. It is advisable to eat liquid food and drink more high-calorie drinks on the first day after delivery, such as brown sugar water, red date soup, lotus root powder, almond tea, etc. On the second day, you can eat soft semi-liquid food, such as water eggs, tender egg custard, etc. Chicken soup should not be drunk too early.

In addition, some people believe that old hen soup has higher nutritional value and is beneficial to postpartum recovery, but it is not advisable to drink old hen soup too early after giving birth. Because after childbirth, the concentration of estrogen in the mother's blood will be greatly reduced, and then prolactin will play a role in promoting milk secretion. The older the hen is, the higher its estrogen content will naturally be. If you drink hen stew soup too early or too much, it will increase the estrogen in the blood, weaken or even disappear the effect of prolactin, affecting milk secretion. One week after delivery, you can use roosters or chickens to make soup.

Precautions for pregnant women to drink chicken soup

In addition to being careful not to drink chicken soup too early, pregnant women should also pay attention to choosing roosters with relatively high androgen content. When drinking chicken soup, you can remove the floating oil on it and don't drink too much to avoid postpartum obesity.

1. Choose a rooster. Breast milk is mainly produced when the concentrations of estrogen and progesterone are reduced. Roosters contain more androgens, which can counteract estrogen and promote milk secretion. And the testicles of roosters contain a small amount of androgens. When making chicken soup for pregnant women, eating them together with the testicles can promote milk secretion. However, some mothers will suffer from mastitis during lactation. If they find that their breasts are swollen and there is no milk, do not use chicken soup to avoid aggravating mastitis.

2. Choose chickens. Chickens refer to relatively young chickens that have never laid eggs. Nutritionally speaking, the nutritional content of chicken meat is higher than that of old hens. Moreover, chicken meat contains less elastic connective tissue. After being cooked, the chicken easily separates and becomes tender and soft, which is more conducive to the digestion and absorption of parturient women. When the maternal milk secretion is normal and there is no need to induce lactation, chicken stew can be used to supplement nutrition.

1. Avoid greasiness: When pregnant women drink chicken soup, it is best to remove the layer of oil on it. Because when pregnant women drink chicken soup, if their fat intake is too high, it can easily lead to postpartum obesity. In addition, if the fat content in milk increases, the baby's lipid intake will also increase during breastfeeding, which will increase the burden on the baby's gastrointestinal tract, lead to gastrointestinal digestion problems, and easily cause diarrhea.

4. Pay attention to the cooking method: If you want the mother to get the highest nutritional value from the chicken soup, you must pay attention to the cooking method of the chicken soup, pay attention to the selection of cooking utensils and ingredients, and pay attention to controlling the heat. Generally speaking, chicken soup should not be boiled for too long to avoid destroying the nutrients in the soup. When making chicken soup, you should also pay attention to choosing other complementary foods, such as astragalus, red dates, wolfberry, etc. You can also add some rice wine, which is more beneficial to maternal health.