In the first week, the main purpose is to expel excess water, toxins and lochia from the body. Drink thirst-quenching drinks when you are thirsty. Do not put salt in food (salt will cause water to stay in the body). Add vinegar (vinegar will soften the bones), but not soy sauce (the same principle as salt). Also don't eat pickles, kimchi, and miso soup.
Drinks for postpartum women:
Ingredients: Add hawthorn meat, lychee shells and Guanyin skewers to ten times the rice wine, bring to a boil and filter out. Add brown sugar, mix well, and refrigerate in a container. Heat it when drinking, no more than 500CC per day, you can do more at one time. Hawthorn meat, lychee shells, and Guanyin skewers can be used individually or in combination.
Liver-nourishing soup:
If it is a caesarean section, you should eat liver-nourishing soup one week before delivery and two weeks after delivery (cooked with rice wine after delivery).
Ingredients: 280cc of chicken heart dates (buy red chicken heart dates) before delivery (use rice wine water after delivery)
Method: Wash the red dates with water and cut into 7 places with a knife . Place in a container, rinse with hot boiling water, cover and leave overnight. Steam it in a steamer the next morning. Wait until it boils and then steam over low heat for one hour.
How to eat: Take out the red dates, peel and remove the seeds. You can eat them at any time throughout the day. The soup can be divided into two or three times and drunk as tea after meals. You can also add some rock sugar or brandy.
How to stir-fry pork liver with sesame oil (same method as pork loin)
Ingredients: Wash the pork liver with rice wine, cut into 1 cm thick, 60 grams of liver should be taken for every 10 kilograms of body weight. Take six grams of ginger (sliced ??with the skin) for every ten kilograms of body weight. Sesame oil, 6cc for every ten kilograms of body weight. Rice wine, 60cc for every ten kilograms of body weight.
Method: Saute the old ginger with sesame oil until fragrant, until it turns light brown. Remove the ginger and place it in the prepared rice wine. . Heat the oil over high heat, then put down the pork liver, stir-fry quickly over high heat, then pour in the ginger-soaked rice wine and bring to a boil.
How to eat: Pork liver is suitable for breakfast and lunch. The above portion can be eaten in 3-4 times;
Sweet glutinous rice porridge
Ingredients ( Three days): glutinous rice, longan meat, brown sugar, rice wine 2000CC.
Method: Put the glutinous rice and longan meat into the rice wine water, cover and soak for 8 hours. Bring the soaked ingredients to a boil over high heat, then reduce to low heat and cover and simmer for 1 hour. Turn off the heat, add brown sugar, stir and serve.
Note: Take one fresh pork loin every day, dry it with rice wine and cut it in half, and remove the white urine glands. Cut the cleaned kidneys diagonally into slits on the surface and then cut them into 3 cm pieces.
Red bean soup:
Ingredients (for three days): red beans, peeled ginger, brown sugar, 1500CC rice wine.
Method: Put the red beans into the rice wine water, cover and soak for 8 hours. Cut the old ginger into shreds and add it to the soaked red beans. Bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to medium heat and continue cooking for 20 minutes (covered). Turn off the heat, add brown sugar and stir before serving.
How to eat: 2 bowls a day, one bowl at 10 a.m. and one bowl at 3 p.m.
Peanut pig trotters: (those with insufficient milk can eat it in the third week after delivery)
Ingredients (for three days): peanuts, peeled and sprouted, shrimp, pig trotters approx. , appropriate amount of peeled ginger, 15 grams of shiitake mushrooms without stems, 2500CC of rice wine and 80CC of sesame oil.
Method: Soak the mushrooms in 10 times the amount of rice wine until soft, cut into shreds and set aside. Boil the peanuts in rice wine and water, remove the membrane and buds. Heat the sesame oil and fry the ginger. Put the pig's trotters into the pot and fry until the skin changes color. Add peanuts and stir-fry for a while, then add pig trotters and ginger, and finally add mushrooms, shrimp and rice wine water. Cover, bring to a boil, and simmer for about 8 hours. (This time is a bit long, you can reduce it accordingly.)
I hope it can help you.