Now there is a new era and new ideas. Confinement is no longer the same thing. Old hen soup is the most sacred. People pursue big fish, big meat, big meat and fat. They believe that the best way for pregnant women to eat more meat and drink more broth is to replenish their health. Era chat. Nowadays, women during confinement period have begun to pay attention to the combination of meat and vegetables, balanced nutrition, and scientific confinement period. So, what are the recommendations for confinement meals?

1. One week after delivery

Within 7 days after delivery, the maternal body is relatively weak. It is also the peak period of lochia and waste elimination period, so it is not advisable to take heavy supplements.

Pregnant women can drink a bowl of brown sugar millet porridge + boiled eggs in the morning. Soak 50 grams of millet and 500 grams of water in a pressure cooker for 3 hours until cooked. Add an appropriate amount of brown sugar before serving. The brown sugar is based on your own taste. Millet is rich in nutrients, easy to absorb, nourishes the spleen and stomach, and is easy to digest. For mothers who have just given birth and are weak and have a discordant spleen and stomach, millet is the most suitable choice for breakfast; brown sugar can help promote the discharge of postpartum blood stasis and lochia; boiled eggs are not greasy or greasy, and are rich in nutrients.

For lunch, you can eat steamed rice with red beans, pork liver with sesame oil, fried sashimi, steamed eggs with shredded chicken, fried lilies with shrimps, and boiled seasonal vegetables. The vegetables should not be too cold. Choose what you like according to the season. High in vitamins. Red bean steamed rice looks good, looks good on your appetite, and is nutritious and suitable for pregnant women. Pork liver with sesame oil can also promote waste elimination.

For dinner, you can have fresh fish soup or egg soup, fried barley + black sesame steamed rice, steamed minced meat, stewed chicken with mixed mushrooms, steamed fish, steamed ribs, or seasonal vegetables. Fried barley can promote the discharge of excess water from the mother's body and remove edema. Black sesame can secrete milk and increase the mother's milk to feed her newborn baby. Steamed minced meat is easier to digest and reduces the burden on the stomach.

If you need a snack in the evening, you can drink red bean porridge, lily and lotus seed soup, etc. A new mother's hormone levels drop one week after giving birth due to the excessive consumption of energy and blood loss during the delivery process. During these 5-7 days, the diet should be light and nutritious to facilitate postpartum recovery.

2. The second week after delivery

In the second week after delivery, the mother’s wounds are basically stable, and her appetite gradually begins to improve. Because of the large amount of blood loss during childbirth, the mother needs to eat some Iron food.

You can eat glutinous rice + red date porridge for breakfast; fried fungus with mutton slices, stewed pork ribs with lotus root, stir-fried carrots with corn, braised pork liver and pork kidneys with Eucommia ulmoides. These are all good choices, but pork liver should not exceed 15 consecutive days. days, to prevent excessive cholesterol; for dinner, it is not recommended to add oil during the cooking process of local chicken stewed with yam, pig's trotters and peanut soup, and broth, because the meat itself contains fat, and the layer of oil floating on the surface of the stewed soup should also be removed. If the mother eats too greasy food, it will cause milk blockage, and the fat intake will be too high, which is not good for her health.

3. The third week to the full moon

At this time, the mother's body is obviously more energetic than in the first and second weeks, and the lochia has also reached the middle and end stages. You can eat foods that replenish qi and blood appropriately. If necessary, you can also add some related medicinal materials to the soup according to your physical condition.

Pregnant women with less milk can try astragalus, red dates and rooster soup. Roosters are uncastrated chickens. Uncastrated roosters can stimulate maternal hormones and increase milk secretion. Astragalus has the effect of replenishing Qi. Well, red dates are the best choice for replenishing blood.

After the third week, stomach function gradually recovers, and breakfast can be freely mixed, but it is also recommended to focus on nutritious and easily digestible foods. Steamed buns, shredded chicken porridge, and chicken soup noodles are all very good. Lunch is a combination of meat and vegetables, stir-fried beef, stewed lamb chops, stewed chicken, all of these are fine, as long as they are not too greasy and heavy. There are also a variety of snacks to choose from, such as eggs stuffed with sweet wine, red bean soup, angelica, red dates, quail egg soup, etc. Just focus on qi and blood to promote milk secretion.

Chinese people pay attention to dietary supplements. If a mother takes good care of her body during confinement, she will not suffer from confinement disease.

Therefore, how to arrange confinement meals is also very important.