After the delivery

  ● You should have a sound sleep as well as nutritious meals. : Failure to relieve tiredness coming from the delivery induces serious and trifle troubles. Therefore, for a week after the delivery, you should have enough rest and sound sleep. However, many women complain about insomnia due to depression after the delivery or severe tiredness during this time. Therefore, you may drink warm milk before going to bed or lie down to take rest if you feel tired irrespective of what time it is. At this time, calcium in the milk assists sleeping by relaxing your nerves. Since it is also important to have nutritious meals for the recovery of the body and lactation, balanced meals should be taken so that no nutrients are insufficient. Soft, easily digestible, and highly nutritious meals should be taken since hard foods may weaken your teeth.
  ● You should be careful to have balanced meals and iron. : Most of the time, only the brown-seaweed soup and rice are taken for the meals after delivery. Although rice is helpful for the contraction of the uterus and brown-seaweed soup makes the blood clear and are proper for the meals after the delivery, having only these two may lead to nutrition deficiency. Therefore, evenly nutritious and balanced meals should be taken. Particularly, foods having enough calcium and iron such as anchovies, milk and cheese should be taken since bones and teeth are weakened and hair is thinned out greatly after a baby is born. And you should have meals containing a sufficient amount of good-quality proteins and moisture in order to facilitate lactation. The nutrients or calories that are necessary are increased during the time of lactation as during the time of pregnancy. But an excessive diet for fast recovery after the delivery should be prohibited. The principle is to control the amount of meals and to take balanced nutrients.