Postpartum meal recipe list for 30 days

The diet of women during the confinement period after giving birth is very important, because the mother not only needs to regulate her body through food, but also needs to provide the baby with sufficient breast milk through food so that the baby can absorb more nutrients. What is the menu list for the 30-day confinement meal? The first week of confinement meals requires helping the mother excrete toxins from her body through diet, the second week helps the mother contract her uterus, and the third week is for nourishment.

1. Week 1 (Metabolic Detoxification Week)

Meal function: remove waste blood (lochia), waste water, waste gas and old waste.

Women who have just given birth have poor physical strength and appetite, so they should eat light and easy-to-digest food, mainly pork liver, black fish, and small yellow croaker.

1. Shenghua Tang: Use seven servings for normal delivery and fourteen servings for caesarean section, 300cc per day.

2. Stir-fry 2 portions of pork liver with sesame oil, using roasted old ginger, rice wine essence water (confinement water), and sesame oil.

3. Sweet glutinous rice porridge: two bowls a day.

4. Red bean soup: two bowls a day.

5. Fish soup: mullet, sea bass or yellow croaker, cooked with low-temperature baked sesame oil, rice wine extract and roasted ginger, one piece per day.

2. Second Week of Confinement Meals (Visceral Contraction Week)

Meal function: Contract the uterus and pelvic cavity.

Focus on lumbar restoration, pelvic restoration, promoting metabolism, and preventing back pain.

1. Shenghua Tang: Those who delivered by caesarean section should drink it until the 14th day, 300cc per day; those who delivered by natural delivery do not need to drink it anymore.

2. Fried pork kidney with sesame oil: two bowls a day, a total of two bowls, fried with roasted ginger and sesame oil.

3. Sweet glutinous rice porridge or longan porridge: one bowl per day.

4. Red bean soup: two bowls a day.

5. Oily rice: one bowl per day.

3. Confinement meals from the third week to the full moon (nourishing and tonic week).

Function of meals: replenish nutrition and restore physical strength (up to 40 days for miscarriage and caesarean section).

Regulate physical strength, replenish blood, regulate Qi, prevent aging, and restore the smoothness and elasticity of women's skin.

1. Sesame oil chicken: Made with rice wine essence water (confinement water), sesame oil, and roasted ginger, two bowls a day.

2. Sweet glutinous rice porridge: one bowl per day.

3. Red bean soup: one bowl per day.

4. Oily rice: one bowl per day.

5. Fish: All fish are acceptable (sea bass and mullet can be eaten during caesarean section): one bowl per day.

6. Confinement drinks: Eucommia health-care tea, or litchi shell tea, or longan and wolfberry tea. They can quench thirst and nourish the body. Drink them like boiled water, two cups a day, about 600cc in total.