Every pregnant woman will enter the confinement period after giving birth. This period is the most important transitional stage for the mother to recover her physical and mental health, so daily diet and other aspects need to be paid special attention to. The point is more important for women who had a C-section than for women who had a vaginal birth. In principle, of course, the diet is generally light. So what should you eat after caesarean section and confinement? What should new mothers eat?

1. Cesarean section confinement diet

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Confinement diet

1. The first day

A cup of radish water, a cup of boiled water, and rice porridge.

Six hours after cesarean section, the mother can only eat after intestinal exhaust.

2. The next day

Breakfast: Make your own millet porridge, or you can boil eggs with boiling water, which is nutritious and tastes good;

Afternoon: For millet porridge or rotten noodles, you can use crucian carp soup for noodle soup.

Dinner: White rice porridge (add a few lettuce leaves), radish soup, wine and fermented eggs (add some brown sugar - to remove lochia, fermented wine and eggs - to release milk) and Chinese medicine Passepartout (to clear milk) milk duct).

3. The third day

Breakfast: white rice porridge (mixed with some millet), a meat bun stuffed with some fermented rice (the meat filling is not eaten, it has the effect of opening milk) .

Afternoon: White rice porridge (mixed with some millet).

Evening: White rice porridge (mixed with some red dates), stir-fried chicken and green vegetables, all the way.

4. Day 4

Breakfast: black rice porridge (with wolfberry), a red bean paste bun.

Afternoon: Crucian carp soup (for milk), add a boiled egg.

Dinner: Black fish soup (for healing wounds), stir-fried mushrooms with chicken feathers, and red bean and white fungus soup.

5. Day 5

Breakfast: white rice porridge and a bean paste bun.

Lunch: crucian carp soup with vegetables and noodles.

Dinner: Black fish soup, fried cabbage and fungus, white rice porridge with a few red dates.

6. Day 6

Breakfast: white rice porridge, a bean paste bun, and half a steamed bun.

Afternoon: White rice porridge, crucian carp soup.

Dinner: 2 large bowls of crucian carp soup, fried vegetables, fried cabbage, and white rice porridge.

7. Day 7

Breakfast: a red bean paste bun, fermented rice and boiled eggs (2 pieces).

Afternoon: Black fish soup, crucian carp soup and steamed eggs.

Dinner: 3 bowls of crucian carp soup, stir-fried cabbage, white rice porridge.

2. Nutritional points

1. Avoid cold and spicy foods

New mothers who have had a caesarean section should pay attention to their diet and avoid cold and spicy foods. If you suffer from multiple postpartum deficiency and blood stasis, you should avoid eating raw or cold foods. Too much raw and cold food hurts the stomach, and cold and cold food can cause blood clotting and persistent lochia, which can cause postpartum abdominal pain, body pain and many other diseases. Postpartum blood loss damages body fluids and causes excessive yin deficiency and internal heat. Therefore, spicy and hot foods such as onions, ginger, garlic, and peppers should be avoided. If you eat spicy food, it will not only easily cause constipation, hemorrhoids, etc., but may also affect the baby's gastrointestinal function through milk.

2. It is not advisable to take a lot of supplements

In addition, many families will make a lot of supplements during the confinement period for new mothers. In fact, the diet after caesarean section should not be supplemented. Like animal reproduction, human gestation prepares the body for later birth. Maternal women who consume excessive amounts of nutrients are prone to obesity, which can lead to a variety of diseases. Maternal obesity can also cause increased fat content in breast milk, ultimately leading to obesity or diarrhea in the baby.

3. Don’t forget vegetables and fruits

Many new mothers will eat some tonic or lactating ingredients after giving birth, but ignore the most common vegetables and fruits. In addition, there is a traditional belief that the two are "high in water vapor" and eating them will harm the body. However, fresh vegetables and fruits can not only supplement the vitamin C and fiber lacking in meat and eggs, but also promote appetite and help Digestion and defecation, and prevent postpartum constipation.

4. Be careful with traditional Chinese medicine and dietary therapy

In order to recover after childbirth and promote lactation, many families will make some dietary adjustments. However, traditional Chinese medicine and dietary therapy should also be symptomatic, and you should not make random supplements on your own.

Pregnant women with normal health do not need to take supplements with drugs. They can use some traditional Chinese medicine according to the symptoms, combined with dietary conditioning. If there is a lack of milk, you can use Wangbuliu, Tongcao, pig's trotters, Platycodon, etc. to stimulate menstruation and reduce lactation; for postpartum abdominal pain and constipation, you can add Angelica sinensis, peach kernels, walnut kernels, and rice wine to activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and moisturize the intestines and relieve constipation.

3. Postpartum dietary misunderstandings

Myth 1: Postpartum women should avoid foods. Many pregnant women have taboo habits. In fact, postpartum requires sufficient and rich nutrients, and the staple and non-staple foods should be diversified. Eating only one or two foods will not only fail to meet the needs of the body, but will also be detrimental to the secretion of milk by the mammary glands.

Myth 2: If you are physically weak after childbirth, you should eat more old hens. After delivery, especially after cesarean section, new mothers cannot eat greasy foods until their gastrointestinal function has recovered. Foods such as old hens and hooves have high fat content and are not suitable to be eaten immediately after giving birth. Postpartum physical weakness is caused by the mother's excessive physical exertion during delivery and the need to breastfeed after delivery. At this time, the mother can eat some easily digestible liquid or semi-liquid food, such as shrimp stewed noodles, sweet potato porridge, etc.

Myth 3: In order to produce milk prematurely, drink more soup immediately after delivery. There is a step between childbirth and milk production, which is to keep all the breast ducts unblocked. If the breast ducts are not all unblocked and the mother drinks a lot of soup, the secreted milk will become blocked in the breast ducts, which may even cause the mother to have a fever. Therefore, if you want to produce milk early after delivery, you must let the newborn suck the mother's breast early to stimulate the mother's milk ducts to produce more milk. After all the breast ducts are unblocked, drink some light and less oily soup, such as carp and tofu soup, eel soup, etc., which will help the mother to produce milk.

Myth 4: Soup is more nutritious than meat. During the puerperium period, you should often drink chicken soup, pork rib soup, fish soup and pig's trotters soup to facilitate lactation, but you should also eat some meat at the same time. Meat is much more nutritious than soup. The statement that "soup is more nutritious than meat" is unscientific.

Myth 5: Postpartum bleeding is excessive. Eat longan, red dates, and red beans to replenish blood. Longan, red dates, and adzuki beans are foods that promote blood circulation. If new mothers eat these foods after giving birth, they will increase the amount of bleeding. These foods are high in sugar, and some mothers eat them in bed without brushing their teeth in time, which can easily cause tooth decay. Generally, it is suitable to eat after 2 weeks postpartum or after the lochia has cleared up.