Recovery of Your Health after Cesarean Section
Published April 29th, 2006 in Giving Birth, Your Health.You nutrition during pregnancy
While breast feeding you need to include in your daily ration at least 500 mL of milk, kefir or curdled milk, 50-100 g of cotton cheese, about 200 g of meat, 600 g of vegetables (it is better to insert different vegetables separately), 1 egg, 300-500 g of fruits (quantity should be increased little by little), 35 g of butter and 20 g of vegetable oil.
You should exclude alcohol and food, causing allergy off your ration: honey, citruses, strawberry, chocolate, canned food, cooked meats. You need to drink enough liquid. It is also recommended to recommence taking of vitamin-mineral complexes for pregnant and nursing mothers, as necessity in vitamins and minerals are still as high, as during pregnancy.
It is desirable, that someone would help you at home, so that you could devote your time to recovery and arranging of breast feeding. 2-3 months later you will already be able to do special exercises to gain elasticity of belly, slenderness of legs and beauty of breast.
Anyway, now you are a MOTHER! Proud, but tender and loving. Flap above your cosy home and cover it carefully, as now your happiness is concentrated here – happiness of maternity!
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The English and grammar in this article is awful, not that I claim to be an expert !
Also, I’d suggest that this advice is dreadfully out of date and/or not relevant to the UK/US.
Quote “She can sit on 2nd-3rd day after operation”. Ye gods, that is dreadfully outdated. “she will be walking around on 2nd-3rd day” would be more accurate ! After a C-Section, you are encouraged to be mobile within around 12 hours and are likely to be back on your feet within 12 hours or so of the operation.
Diet is “as normal” as soon as you can eat, usually the next morning. Also, I’ve never been in intensive care post a C-Section.
You get about 2-3 hours in the post recovery room, then it’s off to the normal maternity ward with the other mothers.
Valid points all round.
I’m going to leave the article though as some points are still valid and other readers may still gain some value out of it..
Suggest you could feed this back to the Autor though who’s site is cited at the end of the article.
Regards
Claire
I have to totally disagree with the first person who commented. I went through labor and had to deliver via C-section at midnight after 2 hours of pushing with no progress. I was in the recovery room for 6 hours, was practically unconscious the first 2 days and did not what I would consider “walk around” until the 3rd day. Boy, was it hard!I was given a normal diet also on the 3rd day.Maybe that is a different experience that what other women with C-sections had, but I think women with C-sections need the extra time to recover. There is nothing natural about a C-section (it is after all a major surgery) and the new mom needs a little bit more time to recover than a mom who delivered vaginally.