The first time you hold your newborn in the delivery room, put his lips to your breast. Your mature milk hasn't come in yet, but your breasts are producing a substance called colostrum that will help protect your baby from infection.
Try not to panic if your newborn seems to have trouble finding or staying on your nipple. Breastfeeding is an art that requires patience and lots of practice. No one will expect you to be an expert in the beginning, so don't hesitate to ask a nurse to show you what to do while you're in the hospital. (If you have a premature baby, you may not be able to nurse right away, but you should start pumping your milk. Your baby will receive this milk through a tube or a bottle until he's strong enough to nurse.)
Once you get started, remember that nursing shouldn't be painful. Pay attention to how your breasts feel when your baby latches on. His mouth should cover a big part of the areola below the nipple, and your nipple should be far back in your baby's mouth. If latch-on hurts, break the suction — by inserting your little finger between your baby's gums and your nipple — and try again. Once your baby latches on properly, he'll do the rest.
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Saturday, February 27, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
How much weight will I lose right after giving birth?
You probably won't return to your pre-pregnancy weight for some time, but you will lose a significant amount of weight immediately after delivery. Subtracting one 7- to 8-pound baby, another pound or two of placenta, and another 2 pounds or so of blood and amniotic fluid leaves most new moms about 12 pounds lighter.
The weight keeps coming off, too. All the extra water that your cells retained during pregnancy, along with fluid from the extra blood you had in your pregnant body, will be looking for a way out.
So you'll produce more urine than usual in the days after birth — an astounding 3 quarts a day. And you may perspire a lot, too. By the end of the first week, you'll lose about 4 pounds of water weight. (The amount varies depending on how much water you retained during pregnancy.)
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How long will it take for my uterus to shrink?
By the time you go into labor, your uterus is about 15 times heavier (not including its contents!) and its capacity is at least 500 times greater than before you conceived. Within minutes after your baby is born, contractions cause your uterus to shrink, clenching itself like a fist, its crisscrossed fibers tightening in the same way they do during labor.
These contractions cause the placenta to separate from the uterine wall. After the placenta is delivered, the uterus clamps down even more, closing off open blood vessels in the area where the placenta was attached. As the uterus continues to contract, you may feel cramps known as afterpains.
For the first couple of days after birth, you can feel the top of your uterus at or a few finger widths below the level of your belly button. In a week your uterus weighs about a pound - half of what it weighed at delivery. After two weeks it's down to a mere 11 ounces and located entirely within your pelvis. By four to six weeks, it should be close to its pre-pregnancy weight of about 2.5 ounces. This process is called involution of the uterus.
Even after your uterus shrinks back into your pelvis, you may continue to look somewhat pregnant for several weeks or longer. That's because your abdominal muscles get stretched out during pregnancy, and it will take time – and regular exercise – to get your belly back in shape.
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
10 kinds of women most likely to get breast cancer
As modern women, lifestyle, eating habits and environmental factors, new physiological characteristics of female corresponding to these changes emerge. All these provide a breeding ground for the incidence of breast cancer for the following 10 groups of people:
1, breast hyperplasia has been unhealed for many years
Mammary gland hyperplasia is a chronic disease. Although not every case will be malignant breast hyperplasia, there are many links between the two. It is suggested that people fallen in this group need to actively care and treat their breasts.
Tip: Breast hyperplasia patients, who are older and have longer history and larger mass, and the relationship between tumor and menstruation is not obvious, are prone to malignant transformation. In the view of possible malignant breast hyperplasia, it is recommended to improve condition as soon as possible and not delay.
2, repeated abortion surgery
Many women do ask their doctors before flow: how will flow effect on the body? But they generally merely consider physical injury and pain, and do not recognize the insignificant impact of hormonal changes in the body.
3, regular us hormone drugs or cosmetics
Studies have shown that: misuse of health care products containing estrogens may cause breast cancer.
4, there is a family history of breast cancer, regardless the genetic causes and environmental factors
Each of us is on an outstretched branch of his huge FAMILYTREE, which means the health condition of tree trunk will, in varying degrees, affect our future.
5, no breast-feeding or breast-feeding too long
6, obesity or excessive intake of fat
7, mental depression, often angry, or in bad mood
8, long-term exposure to various radiation (computers, mobile phones, etc.)
9, celibacy and without sterile or long time infertile after marriage
10, menarche comes before age 13 or late menopause
In the modern world, new life style leads to new female physiological phenomena, such as early menarche, delayed menopause, infertility and childbearing, etc. which has greatly increased the incidence of breast cancer. Epidemiological studies have shown that children are now nutrient-rich and supplements abusing. Therefore, they universally have early menstruation. Some women try to delay menopause by extension of human puberty. All these cases force the breasts are affected by estrogen too long. In addition, celibacy, short marriage, multiple sex partners, as well as having her first baby older than 30 years old, female patients with breast hyperplasia increased. Although breast hyperplasia is not cancer, it is likely to turn into breast cancer after a long term.
Therefore, breast disease experts remind: Understanding breast health knowledge, changing lifestyles, and curing breast hyperplasia, are the best methods to block breast cancer precancerous lesions and prevent breast cancer.
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Friday, February 12, 2010
Learn how to correctly hold your baby
When the nurse sent the newborn baby to your arms, the young mum with great joy, watching this round and soft flesh soft flesh, and does not know how to "hold" the baby.
There are two correct postures to hold newborns: hand lift and wrist hold
Hand lift: Using To jack up the baby's back, neck, head with left hand, to jack up his small buttocks and waist with right hand. This method is more used to pick up the baby from the bed and lay down.
Wrist hold: put the baby's head on the left crook of the arm, the elbow protects baby's head, left wrist and left hand protect back and waist, right arm over the baby's legs, right hand care the baby's buttocks and waist. This approach is more commonly used.
1. Communicate with baby
When parents hold baby, they should interact with baby such as talk, sing, watch your baby with your eyes gently, gently touching, physical contact with your baby. It can stimulate your baby’s brain development. This is the first step to establish emotional, physical and mental development. It is very important for your baby.
Generally, you should hold your baby when she is weak up, and put her on the bed when she is sleeping. Newborns sleep about 20 ~ 22 hours a day. Holding at sleep can interrupt baby’s sleep.
2. Should be close to their parents left chest
Parents hold baby should put baby’s head to close to left chest to allow baby hear the parents heartbeat, which baby has been familiar with. It can make baby easy to calm down.
3. Not vertical hold
When you pick up the baby upright, you will find your baby's neck is weak, head bowed, not vertical. Because the newborn's head takes ¼ of entire length. Vertical holding baby, the baby's head weight gives pressure in the cervical spine. The baby in the ~ 2 months, cervical muscle has not been fully developed, neck muscle weakness, should be prevented the embrace of the incorrect posture of the spinal cord damage. These injuries were not easy to find, but may affect the child's future growth and development.
The seven things in postpartum the new mother had to know-3
4, to ensure new mom to have adequate rest time
Delivery process causes physically exhausted to new mothers. In the first day after birth, the most important thing is rest, to ensure the physical recovery. Now, many hospitals provide the rooms to allow baby and mother to stay together. The new father should take the responsibility for baby's diaper, to ensure that the new mother have sufficient rest.
5, go to the toilet as soon as possible
The new mother should drink plenty of water after natural birth. During the production process, the bladder and urethra obtained a lot of pressure by fetal head. Bladder’s function can help the recovery. Bladder over-filling will affect the contraction of the uterus, leading to postpartum hemorrhage.
6, eat vegetables to avoid constipation
Eating fruits and vegetables rich in dietary fiber is very useful for prevention and treatment of postpartum constipation. The new mothers should pay attention to the perineum care. The bathroom should equipped warm water rinse.
7, the new mother hyperhidrosis should pay attention to cleanliness
Postpartum sweating of new mother is more than the normal amount, especially during the sleep, and waking up. Postpartum sweating can often self-improved in a few days, this is a normal physiological phenomenon, not physically weak performance. Mothers should change underwear and bed sheets frequently. The room should be ventilated. Without fresh air, new mother easily get respiratory tract infection.
Prenatal stress
Prenatal stress (or prenatal maternal stress) is exposure of an expectant mother to distress, which can be caused by stressful life events or by environmental hardships. The resulting changes to the mother's hormonal and immune system may harm the fetus's (and after birth, the infant's) immune function and brain development.
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The seven things in postpartum the new mother had to know-2
2, do not waste colostrum
The first day after birth the new mother will have a small amount of viscous, slightly yellow milk, which is colostrum. Colostrum contains large amounts of antibodies to protect babies against bacteria. It should be fed to the babies as much as possible to reduce the incidence of neonatal disease. This is can not be replaced by all other milks.
3, Breast-feeding may stimulate the brain behavior
Brian gives the signal to increase the secretion of milk. Mom must be breast-feeding as soon as possible, in order to form a nerve reflex to increase the secretion of milk. The new mother can also have some food to increase milk secretion such as peanuts, pot trotters, fish soup.
The first hour after delivery II
The first hour of the newborn
1,Get his first score
This is the first time in life the baby is tested, which is called the Apgar score. Mainly it is the score showing the overall situation of the newborn. The tests include the child's heart rate, breathing, muscle tone, reflex response, and in color reactions. The score does not predict whether their children will grow up healthy, or how smart they will be. It can only prompt the child to the medical staff how he adapt to the new world, if he needs help, etc.
2, See the world through one eye
Every child has his own pace to open his eyes and facing the new world. Some kids are ambitious, very urgent. Some children will need some time to adapt. Many mothers have noticed, when their babies have just come to this world, usually only opened one eye, "sweep" around. Don’t feel strange. This is one of the most unique tricks of baby.
Some of the newborns have the blood points in the eye whites, and have some facial swelling, mother. Do not worry. These are normally caused by squeezing by the birth canal during delivery. They will slowly disappear in a few days. In general, the child came by the caesarean section would not have these phenomena.
3, Newborn baby will peel too
The babies born before or on their due day will have a layer of fetal fat on the skin. When the fat is washed off, he may have some skin peeling. That is not because of the dry skin. It is a normal reaction for skin exposed in air for the first time. There are also some lanugo on baby's shoulders and back, which will fade out in 1-2 weeks.
4,Newly-born baby will also have rash
If you find tiny spots like freckles on baby, do not be scared, it is likely that they had herpes before birth, and these are leftovers. Asian children will also have a large piece of blue purple birthmark on their back and buttocks. It is called the Mongolian spot, which is the most common birthmarks, without any meaning, usually will disappear before school age. If there is a strange gender identity, do not worry, whether boy or girl, his/her breasts can occur a temporary increase. It is because of the impact by the large number of hormones getting from mommy when they are still inside. In most cases, they will back to normal within a week.
TIP: It takes time to sew
During childbirth, if the vulva through the lateral, or soft tissue are torn, it needs to be cared after delivery. New mothers do not be too worried, if the torn is small, the wound even may not need to be sutured.
Usually spray anesthesia is used as a painkiller. Doctors will explain to the new mother before the surgery suture. Many women will take a nap during the surgery, because after giving birth, although her feelings are very high, the body is already tired of.
Say “Goodbye” to stretch marks
After delivery, many new mommies have a common worry, the ugly skin stretch marks. How to say: "Googbye" to stretch marks?
Stretch marks are actually a special type of scar. Under normal circumstances, human skin elastic fiber and the rectus abdominis maintain the elasticity of skin, and within certain limits skin can be freely retractable. During pregnancy, mommy’s weight gains very fast, as well as the baby continuous growing in the abdomen, which makes the skin on the belly done over its limit. Thus, lots of collagen fibers in the skin are pulled off, and results in such scars. Besides the abdomen, the stretch marks will be found around the breast, inner thighs and buttocks.
At beginning, stretch marks usually are pink or purple-red irregular longitudinal cracks. Then, the color slowly fades until the post-partum, and eventually silver-white.
You will find that some expectant mothers produce a bunch of stretch marks during pregnancy, and some others’ skin remains smooth. Why? Part of the reason is that every one has different body conditions. Part of the reason is that those mommies know how to protect themselves from the stretch marks.
Here are four easy ways to prevent stretch marks. Since once stretch marks completely formed, it will be very difficult to get rid off and only slowly fade-out. Therefore, if you want to be completely stretch marks free, the most important thing is to do pregnancy prevention.
1. Increase skin elasticity
Before pregnancy, expectant mothers can do some physical exercise to increase the abdominal muscles and skin elasticity. Sit-ups, swimming, yoga are all good choices. During pregnancy, they should not stop exercising. Following doctors instruction, you can walk, swim, and do some gymnastics. Exercise during pregnancy can not only prevent stretch marks, but also increase muscle strength, and promote natural childbirth smoothly.
2. Control weight:
Expectant mothers who gain weight too quick will not only grow stretch marks, but also put the baby and their own health under risk. Maintaining steady weight gain during pregnancy is very important. In the first three months of pregnancy, expectant mother's weight should be increased by 1-2 kg. 4 months later, body weight per week should be increased by 0.5 kilograms. The best to control weight is to buy a weight scale at home, and measure the weight at about the same time everyday, say, in the morning. They can also draw a graph to keep control of their body weight changes.
Eat well: having a balanced diet is the key. Three meals a day with vegetables and fruits regularly, avoid eating too quickly which will increase the digestive burden and hurt the stomach. Stay away from high-fat, high sugar food, and avoid late-night snacks.
3. Moderate massage
The benefits of pregnancy massage are numerous. One of which is to increase the skin elasticity, prevent stretch marks from arising. Using some olive oil, baby oil to keep skin moist while massage will make it easy. If used in conjunction with certain professional massage oil specially designed for preventing stretch marks, the effect will be even better. Massage is a time consuming work. It needs to be kept from 3 months of pregnancy until 3 months of postpartum. It can effectively prevent stretch marks from deriving or dilute the formation of stretch marks.
Abdomen: starts from the navel in a clockwise direction, round and round, slowly draw the circle bigger and bigger.
Thigh: starting from the knee, through the thigh up into the rear hip.
Breast: From cleavage, using pulp from bottom to top, gently massage from the inside to the outside.
Each time, continues 10-20 minutes, twice a day. During the last few weeks, massage more times.
Fighting against stretch marks in three ways:
1, Postpartum desalination is very important: stretch marks after the birth of the baby will slowly fade out within a period of time, but it is almost impossible to eliminate completely. However, detail cares in life allows to make stretch marks are no longer deteriorating, and get faded.
2, Plastic surgery: If you are extremely bothered by stretch marks on the stomach, you can take advantage of a variety of medical method of diluting or reducing the appearance of stretch marks or scope. Pulsed light or a dye laser irradiation can accelerate the purple lines declining, while increasing collagen production, reducing the severity of stretch marks; laser micro-dermabrasion surgery can improve the scar tissue; acid can improve the skin color of the epidermis and thickness, but also make stretch marks appear less obvious; abdominal plastic surgery can easily remove stretch marks.
Attention: Before any medical surgery, make sure to consult your doctors in detail, don’t exchange your health for temporary beauty.
3, Diet, exercise and massage: after the birth of your baby pay attention to control diet and not overeat. Drinking more milk is a common misleading, because a balanced diet is much healthier than heavily count on one or few ingredients. Of course, do not forget to continue on appropriate exercise and massage, which can not only improve the relaxation of the abdomen, but also can control the further deterioration of stretch marks.
Four Tips of Beauty For New Mommies
Hey, new mommies, while you are carefully taking care of babies, please do not forget you own beauty. Here are 4 tips for new moms to become more beautiful during post-partum.
1, Rapid elimination of dark eye circles.
The new mother who takes care of baby is always very tired, and pays little care to herself. Thus dark eye circles appear. A few simple actions can help you: watch face with warm water in the morning and massage eyes with both hands clockwise for about 5 minutes. The massage can promote blood circulation, and the dark eye circles will instantly be relieved.
2, Yam therapy.
Chinese yam is rich in diosgenin (natural DHEA), the basic material containing a variety of hormones. It will promote endocrine hormone synthesis inside new moms’ bodies.
3, Restore gentle hands.
Hard housework and regular washing makes mommies’ hands reddening and covered with wrinkles. To reduce the symptom, just integrate 3 teaspoons of salt into a basin of warm water and soak your hands for about 5 minutes. It to helps the hands to restore their natural look; as to eliminate foot fatigue, soak your feet in warm salt water for a few minutes, and then rinse with cold water.
4, Teabag therapy.
Don’t throw away used teabag and the leftover cold tea. Gently brushing cold tea onto eyelashes with cotton swabs will help eyelashes growth effectively. Hurry, and have a try! Guaranteed to be the most economical and eco-friendly "eyelash growth liquid". Put the used tea bag on the eye will eliminate the dark eye circle.
Fitness with shapewear
Does post-natal obesity is your destiny?
Restoring your graceful pre-natal figure is just a dream?
The answer of course is NO!
Traditionally, people take gaining weight during pregnancy for granted. It is said that you need to eat twice as much during pregnancy to complement the two. It is regarded the only way to get adequate nutrients for your baby to conduct growth and development. However, adding too much weight during pregnancy, also contributed to your obesity in the future.
Based on studies over 795 women, scientists record their body weight changes before and after pregnancy, and continuously observing for a decade and found that: if too much weight is gained during pregnancy, and not lose within 6 months after giving the birth, then 8 to 10 years later, they still can not get rid of those body fat.
Usually physicians or nutritionists will recommend pregnant women during pregnancy: an increase of 11 kg body weight is appropriate. In the study follow-up period, if the weight gain during pregnancy less than the recommended weight, after 8-10 years, their body weight will increase an average of 4.1 kg; at the same time, if body weight increased as recommended during pregnancy, then their weight would be an increase of 6.5 kg; if body weight gained above the recommended figure during pregnancy, then after 8 to 10 years, they will gain an average of 8.4 kilograms. Moreover, if in the post-natal 6 months new mom returns to her pre-pregnancy weight, then the 8 to 10 years later, her weight of an average of 2.4 kilograms more; for those who can’t get post-natal weight down, then the 8 to 10 years will increase the average weight of 8.3 kilograms.
Breastfeeding benefits mothers postpartum weight-loss and their weight are less likely to increase. Breast-feeding 3 months or more will make even better result.The report found that normally new mothers postpartum 2000-2300 kcal daily intake of calories will not affect breast-feeding but only control weight. Modern women have very little problem of malnutrition during pregnancy and after childbirth, which reduces the importance of massive eating. Therefore, balanced nutrition and weight control becomes more important.
Schedule of shapewear wearing
6-month post-partum is the golden period of weight loss for new mommy. Due to mommy’s metabolic rate during this period is still high, and life habits have not been established, the effect of weight loss would be better. Therefore, within 6 months after childbirth was “the golden age” of weight loss.
Week 1 postpartum:
During the day: night wearable corset + tight pants designed for postpartum
Week 2 onwards:
During the day: waist clip, corset + tight pants for postpartum: and take off waist clip while sleep.
Week 3 till 6 months:
1. Daytime: waist clip, corset + post-natal or breathable Nagatsuka
2. During the day: whole body shapewear.
Remember: Postpartum you body is changed and needs different care from before, therefore, you need to prepare the shapewear especially designed for new mommies not for normal use. Then you will find your body will restore its former beauty unbelievably.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
The seven things in postpartum the new mother had to know-1
1, observe the amount of postpartum hemorrhage
Postpartum hemorrhage is first thing the new mother need to pay attention to. According to recent statistics, the post-partum haemorrhage is the first killer to new mothers. It should be given enough attention. According to doctors, the amount of bleeding is greater than 500 ml can be diagnosed as postpartum hemorrhage. There are about 6% new mothers have postpartum hemorrhage due to polyhydramnios, oversized baby, lacenta previa, prolonged. There are several more common reasons: weak contraction of the uterus; soft birth canal laceration; the residues o f placenta and fetal membranes. In general speaking, the placenta should be out after giving birth for about 30 minutes. Abortion and twin fetus can make the placenta to attached to the lower part of uterine. It causes retained placenta; clotting mechanism, combined with maternal blood system diseases, can not stop bleeding.
Mothers after giving birth most likely to have post-partum haemorrhage within two hours. Therefore, after giving birth the new mother are still required to be observed in production room. After two hours of observation in the delivery room, mother and baby can go to the baby-friendly area, should continue to observe by mothers themself. Because at this time can also cause uterine contraction fatigue postpartum hemorrhage.
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Successful! Soft, warm, but also tidal little baby lay on your stomach, whose body also distributes a faint fragrance. And you may also be immersed in the relief after birth, and do not take note of your body is undergoing great changes, but also did not notice the little guy who actually harbors so many secrets!
Many women in their first hour after delivery still can’t let them out of the feeling of pregnancy, and the sense of being a mom is not that strong. It takes some tome for mommies to enjoy the happiness, because they consume too much energy in delivery, and need to recover. On contrary, when the young father sees their newborn baby, he often has tears in his eye. Therefore, some new mothers can not help but wonder why they themselves are so calm on the just-born baby? Don’t be shamed and blame yourself. Please enjoy this valuable post-natal first hour, carefully take a look of yourself and that little one, and you will have a lot of surprises and harvest!
The new mom's first hours
What changes will happen in you boby within the short span of the first hour after delivery?
1, After a child is born, the mother's weight alleviates about 5 kg. This 5 kg includes the child's weight and the weight of amniotic fluid.
2, 5 minutes to 2 hours after giving birth, the placenta will be shed, resulting in a palm-large wound in the womb. Soft tissue will bleed, but not so terrible as thought, about 300 milliliters. The blood was stored during pregnancy, so the body will not be hurt much and it will easily be recovered.
3, After delivery, the womb will quickly shrink from the size of a fitness ball into size of a melon. It is the contraction of the uterus wall muscles at work.
4, Uterine ligaments remain on stretched state. It will take some time to return to normal size. Therefore, for some time after delivery, the body will feel some weakness.
5, During pregnancy, your heart, liver, stomach and lungs were pressured upward by uterine. After giving birth, there has been more space. These organs gradually back to its normal place. This will make you feel relieved. However, at the beginning, the organs the downward sliding will also cause some uncomforts.
6, A kind of hormone called endorphin keeps in a very high level after delivery. Endorphin is an analgesics which produced by your own body. It can reduce pain of the process of childbirth.
7,Hormones promoted by throes still circulate in the blood, which will cause uterine contraction still exists after birth, leave the new mother feeling a pain like throes. In addition, it will help awaken a new sense of motherhood, prompting the young mothers pick up the child, and the care of him.
8, The most in need is quiet. When the child was born, what the new mother wants most is quiet rest. If people mill around, she would feel very uncomfortable. 90% of the households are willing to enjoy a bit of privacy in the delivery room. Doctors and nurses can quietly leave for a while.
9, Waiting for the placenta off
If there is no post-natal complications after giving birth, then few things are needed to do, only to give the baby a bath, weighing, measuring height and dressing up. After the placenta falling, midwives will carefully examine if the placenta is complete. If there is any remain in the womb, all would lead to uterine bleeding.
Many young parents are curious about how big the placenta is in deed? In fact, despite the placenta has contributed a lot, but it weighs much less than we imagined. Placenta is only about 500 grams, or about 1 / 6 of birth weight. It is soft and smooth. Under normal circumstances, it would fall from the vagina with no pain.
One in the 150 cases of childbirth, the placenta can’t automatically fall off. In such case, doctor will reach into the womb to help the placenta come off.
10,Start breast-feeding, the sooner the better
When the newborn touch the mother's breast, almost without any help, he can quickly learn how to suck and get what he wanted. Within 20 to 30 minutes after birth, the newborn is with the strongest intense of sucking. Most of the babies are ready, and eager for mommy’s nipple. If you miss this prime time, baby's sucking reflex will be weakened in a day and a half, it may affect the breast-feeding. Baby's sucking also can stimulate uterine contractions and reduce bleeding. Therefore, if conditions permit, mothers must start breast feeding as soon as possible.
Ten coups to restore a new figure
After labour every new Mummy wishes they could quickly revert to their previous graceful figure. But this wish was not always easy to implement. What should we do? The following 10 diet rules will help new mummies quickly fulfill their dreams.
1. Drink two cups of milk. Milk contents only 3% fat and easily creates satiety. It enables the body to get adequate protein, calcium and a large quantity of vitamin B, A and other nutrients without getting fat. Skim milk is a better choice, because skim milk and whole milk have same protein in reserves but less fat.
2. If the baby is not breastfeeding, you can go back to your pre-pregnancy diet. Thus, your body can generate enough energy but not getting extra calorie.
3. Eat 250g dark green vegetables daily. Dark green vegetables are rich in dietary fiber, carotene, vitamin C, calcium, iron and other nutrients, such as kale, broccoli, pea sprouts, cabbage, spinach and so on. It is better to eat these foods first during each meal. This can increase the energy consumption.
4. Eat staple food 150g daily. Do not eat staple food, of course, can consume the body fat, but it will produce excessive metabolic waste, which is bad for your health. Best staple foods are whole grains such as oats, corn, millet, sweet potatoes, beans and so on. These coarse grains are rich in dietary fiber and B vitamins, with which new mommies won’t easily get the post-natal hunger.
5. Eating lots of fruit to satisfy their appetite is wrong. Fruits usually content 8% sugar, some even up to 20%. Bananas are high in carbohydrate. Therefore, the amount of fruit consumption per day must also be paid attention. 300 grams or less (peeled and seeded) is ideal. Don’t have more than two bananas a day.
6. Eat right fruit at right time to control calorie intake. Best not to eat fruit after the meal. The correct way is to eat fruit before a meal. By this way, you won’t feel too hungry during the dinner. Thus, you won’t eat too much, and help control weight.
7. Chewing more before swallowing food. Nutrition experts believe that chewing 300 times, when people began to postpartum satiety, help control food intake.
8. Eat more fresh fruit, drink less fruity drinks. Eating can give more satisfaction feeling than drinking, and fruity drinks usually contents more sugar. To remind you, that when you have fruit salad, better avoid salad dressing and added sugar. If there is fresh fruit, try not to eat dried fruit. Calorie-density rises after drying up.
9. Eat only natural foods other than synthetic food. Because synthetic foods are often added too much artificial coloring and chemical additives, not only pollute the breast milk and has not much nutrition, but also increase the burden on liver and kidney. For example, fresh potatoes are much healthier than French fries.
10. Choose nutritious, controllable food, such as multi-select low-fat and low-protein foods, soy, milk, chicken, fish, etc.; multiple-choice of fresh vegetables, seaweeds. If they are the same type of food, should choose low fat, low calorie varieties, such as the chicken can be used to substitute pork.
How to prevent postpartum depression for new mothers
According to experts statistics, new mothers often have post-natal depression for a week. The incidences account for 1 / 3 to 1 / 2 of new mothers. The depression can be presented as manifested as depression, easy to cry, failing anxiety, difficulty concentrating, forgetfulness, sadness, insomnia, and worry too much about the baby. Majority of new mothers can recover after a period of time. Very small number of new mothers need a doctor's help to recover.
The reasons to cause the depressed mothers are:
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1, individual qualities. If new mother who have nervousness, immature character or personality and forced prone easy to have depression;
2, the new mother’s postpartum progesterone and estrogen decreased rapidly, this is a common physiological factors, but increased the degree of depression.
3, childbirth gives a significant physical and psychological stimulation. For example, your baby's gender, family income status and so on have a direct relationship with the depression. Therefore, the new father should take a responsibility to help his partner to overcome this difficult period.
Following types of food can prevent postpartum depression for new mothers:
1. Whole-wheat bread: carbohydrates can help to increase serotonin. Pasta, dim sum, such food can be an antidepressants.
2. Spinach: lack of folic acid can lead to mental illness, including depression, early onset of dementia and so on.
3. Pumpkin: Pumpkin is rich in vitamin B6 and iron, these two nutrients can help the body store glucose, glucose is the only fuel for the brain.
4. Cherry: Cherry has a substance called anthocyanins, can reduce the risk of inflammation.
5. Garlic: Although garlic brings a bad breath, it will bring good mood, and difficult to feel tired, anxious.
6. Chicken: A certain amount of selenium intake helps uplifting. The rich sources of selenium are chicken, seafood, whole grains and so on.
7. Almond: Almond is called energy magic pill. Not only rich in fats and a large number of fibers, also contain manganese. Manganese makes more dynamic, more energetic. Women with low manganese levels are more easily tired. 1/4 cup of almonds may be required to meet the 25% daily requirement of manganese for women.
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