In addition to eating pumpkins, you can also eat some vegetables such as spinach, carrots, Chinese cabbage, celery and broccoli to supplement vitamins, iron, zinc and other nutrients that the body lacks. Although these vegetables are edible, you should pay attention to them when cooking. They should not be too greasy, preferably soft, which is helpful for digestion and absorption.
When you are in confinement, if you want to eat pumpkin, you can choose to steam or cook porridge. Try to make it soft. It's good for your stomach. You must pay attention to your diet. As long as you don't eat taboo food, your nutrition is balanced, your body will recover faster and your resistance will be stronger. Sitting for a month will not reveal lochia.
Confinement diet taboo:
1, avoid eating more monosodium glutamate. In order to avoid zinc deficiency, new mothers should avoid eating too much monosodium glutamate. Generally speaking, it is beneficial and harmless for adults to eat monosodium glutamate, but if the mother eats a high-protein diet while breastfeeding, it will be harmful to the baby, especially the baby within 12 weeks. Because sodium glutamate in monosodium glutamate will enter the baby through milk.
Excessive sodium glutamate has a serious impact on the baby's development, especially within 12 weeks. It can specifically combine with zinc in the baby's blood to produce glutamic acid that cannot be absorbed by the body, but zinc is excreted with urine, resulting in zinc deficiency in the baby. In this way, the baby is not only prone to poor taste and anorexia, but also causes adverse consequences such as mental retardation and growth retardation.
2, do not eat cold food: postpartum body lack of blood, should eat more warm food, in order to facilitate the recovery of blood. If you eat cold or cold food after delivery, it is not conducive to the enrichment of qi and blood, and it is easy to lead to the dysfunction of digestion and absorption of the spleen and stomach, which is not conducive to the discharge of lochia and the removal of congestion.
3, do not eat spicy and irritating food: eating spicy food, such as peppers, is easy to hurt body fluids, consume gas, damage blood, aggravate qi and blood weakness, and easily lead to constipation, which is not good for the baby after entering the milk. And mother's blood is weak after delivery. If she eats spicy food, such as pepper, it will cause sweating, which will not only consume gas, but also hurt body fluid and blood, aggravate postpartum qi and blood weakness, and even cause symptoms. Irritating foods, such as strong tea and coffee alcohol, will affect sleep and gastrointestinal function, and it is not good for your baby.
4, do not eat sour food: postpartum mother hyperemia internal resistance, should not eat sour food, such as ebony, lotus seeds, persimmons, pumpkins and so on. , so as not to block blood circulation, which is not conducive to lochia discharge.
5, do not eat cold drinks: such as ice cream, ice cream, cold drinks and so on. It is not conducive to the recovery of the digestive system, and it will also bring adverse effects to the mother's teeth.