After giving birth, the new mother faces two major tasks: one is to restore the vitality of the body, and the other is to breastfeed the baby. Therefore, in the eyes of many people, the word "confinement" means that the new mother has to keep eating, we often see some old people immediately after the new mother gives birth to the old hen prepared at home to boil soup, it seems that as long as all the nutritious food is stuffed into the new mother's mouth, the confinement period can be regarded as really nourished.
Childbirth is indeed a serious physical activity, postpartum new mother's body is weak, does need to recover through food supplementation, so when preparing confinement meals, the family should use a pair of eyes to reasonably match the diet for the new mother to avoid these 3 common misunderstandings.
Myth 1: Eat more brown sugar.
In the eyes of most people, brown sugar seems to be of great benefit to women, especially for new mothers after childbirth, who feel that a large amount of fluid is lost during childbirth, and you can drink more brown sugar water to replenish blood and replenish water, but in fact, brown sugar has the characteristics of activating blood, which will increase the amount of blood in postpartum lochia, causing the mother to lose blood unconsciously. Therefore, brown sugar should not be eaten more, generally do not continue to drink after a week after giving birth, to avoid harming the mother's body.
Myth 2: Drink milk soup as soon as possible.
After the baby is born, everyone wants the baby to drink the first mouthful of breast milk as soon as possible, but some new mothers have not produced milk, will drink some milk soup, although the soup can indeed promote the secretion of milk, but the key to milk production is whether the milk ducts are smooth, in order to let the baby drink milk as soon as possible, do not be afraid of the baby hungry, first let the baby suck more, and then drink a faint light and less oily soup after the milk ducts are all unblocked.
Myth 3: The more hens, the better.
In the concept of many people, hen soup is incomparable in nutritional value, so confinement often occurs in life to let the new mother eat hen soup a day, resulting in the new mother never wants to eat any chicken-related food after confinement. In fact, the nutritional value of hens is not so high, after a large number of maternal consumption, not only did not increase milk, but also returned milk, and hens contain more fat, after the new mother drinks, the fat content in the milk will also increase, will harm the baby's immature stomach, diarrhea, indigestion and so on.