What need to pay attention for the people who drink juice during Pregnancy, lactation and postpartum

Expectant mothers and nursing mothers are special groups, nutritional is very important to them. You may refer to some practical experience as following:

The main ideal of drinking juice for the expectant and nursing mothers is same as normal people — drink mixed juice.

1. The so-called “Drink mixed juice” doesn’t mean making juice with a lot of types of vegetable and fruit, but as long as varying the types of vegetables and fruits except for those which are poisonous to eat uncooked every day, do not use more than 4 types of vegetables and fruits to create a juice (in order to avoid unpredictable chemical reactions).

2. Drinking juice during pregnancy and breast-feeding period, try to avoid cold property vegetable and fruit such as balsam pear, watermelon, yacon etc.

3. For each meal’s amount, There is no requirement, eat full is ok.

4.If convenient, please drink thicker liquids or smoothies as much as possible , so the nutrition will not be lost

Pregnant women need intake of following vegetables careful —— except “vegetables which are poisonous to eat uncooked “, pregnant women also need to pay attention to the following vegetables and fruit:      

Eat less eggplant:  property cold, indigestion, and diarrhea, suggest stomach deficiency of pregnant women to eat less.

Eat less spinach (watercress): property cold, there is effect may cause abortion.      

Do not eat purslane: property cold, will lead to abortion.           

Eat less bitter gourd: property cold, contains quinine, will stimulate uterine contraction, induced abortion. In particular to stomach deficiency of pregnant women should not eat more.      

Eat less leek: leek have excited uterus and strengthen uterine contraction function.        

Eat less spinach: spinach contains a large number of folic acid, which will affect the absorption of zinc and calcium.       

Eat less kelp: excessive consumption of kelp, which contains a large number of iodine will cause fetal thyroid development disorders.

Other non-mentioned vegetable and fruit do not mean you can eat a lot, please be responsible for the safety of pregnancy, and eat only the safety food.

For postpartum recovery problem:      

1, If you are not in lactation period, just following Xinzhen health ideal of drinking the mixed juice as same as the normal people.       

2, If you are still in lactation period, drinking juice is to assist you in the detoxification of the body (for example, the postpartum lochia) and faster recovery. Not for weight loss. Because you still need more nutrition, and provide more breast milk for the baby, this is the best gift to the baby. When Jing Li a volunteers from Xinzhen Health gave birth to her first child, she ate normal meal during confinement period. And drank a glass of warm juice (about 500ml) between normal meals. After 42 days, she drank warm juice for breakfast only. About 10 o’clock she ate millet Congee and an egg, other meals kept normal. Her breast milk was good and enough for baby eat. But during feeding period she tried to avoid cold property food and observed the stool of baby closely.

The above is only personal experiences, each person's physique is different, need to pay closely attention to yourself body.