Before caesarean section, women can eat some high-calorie foods, such as chicken soup, fish soup, lean meat and bean products. These foods are suitable for women to eat before delivery, and these foods can meet the calorie needs of pregnant women. If the mother can't eat other foods, she might as well eat chocolate in moderation. Chocolate is high in calories and contains fat and sugar, which is suitable for prenatal pregnant women.

Dietary considerations before and after caesarean section

1. Before caesarean section, women should not eat high-nutrient foods, such as ginseng chicken soup and squid. These foods have cardiotonic and exciting effects, which will affect platelet aggregation. Women after surgery will not be conducive to postoperative healing, so these foods are not suitable for consumption.

2. You can't eat within 6 hours after caesarean section and need to fast. Because the intestine will be stimulated during the operation, it will affect gastrointestinal peristalsis and easily cause gas accumulation in the stomach. Therefore, we should not eat food that is easy to produce gas after operation, but eat food that is easy to exhaust after operation, so as to promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, reduce the occurrence of abdominal distension and promote smooth defecation.

What to eat on the first day of caesarean section?

Below we share with you two recipes for the first day of caesarean section. The first recipe is radish soup. We need to prepare raw materials, including half a radish and the right amount of water. Wash the radish and cut it into small pieces for use. Then prepare a pot, add a proper amount of water to the pot, then put the cut radish into the water, boil it over high fire, and then turn to low heat for cooking. Add a little salt to taste after cooking, and you can drink it.

The second recipe is spinach porridge. The raw materials we need to prepare are a handful of spinach and a proper amount of rice. After spinach is cleaned, cut into pieces for later use. After rice is cleaned, put it in a pot to cook porridge. After the rice is boiled, add the chopped spinach pieces and cook for two minutes on low heat.

Generally speaking, on the first day after caesarean section, the parturient should eat some soft and digestible food, so it is best to eat liquid and semi-liquid food. Eating radish soup can help lying-in women regulate qi activity and improve gastrointestinal function, while eating spinach porridge can help patients supplement iron and improve hematopoietic function.