Got this from Giselle Sanchez blog
http://blogs.pep.ph/gspot/?p=280" 1. No bath for a month! “Punas-punas†ng mainit na tubig lang.
2. Twice a day, sit on boiled guava leaves.
3. Eat lapu-lapu, cook in soup with ginger to heal the stitches in your belly (for caesarian operations) and stitches in your pep_ (for normal delivery). I actually researched on why this works (siyempre, when it comes to pep_ matters, everything matters!). Apparently, lapu-lapu is rich with omega 3 fish oil , which is enhances tissue repair in our bodies.
4. Drink Seravallo wine. This is made from the bark of a tree in Brazil which is very rich in Iron. Broken sleep patterns from breastfeeding or taking care of the baby makes you lose a lot of iron in your body. Seravallo replenishes your iron. It is safe for nursing mothers because it is more of a medicinal tonic than a wine.
5. Eat soups with lots of ginger and drink hot chocolate with native egg. Again this is to eliminate the “cold†in your body. Chocolate is warm. Sweets are warm. And ginger is the warmest. Avoid cold foods like radish, cucumber, carrots, salads, cold water, ice cream, sodas, and softdrinks.
6. After giving birth and on your first four weeks after birth, wear a binder or a girdle even when you go to sleep.
7. If you can, breastfeed. It will be great for your baby and for yourself too.
For your baby: It will strengthen your baby’s immune system. Hindi siya magkakasakit at all. No colic that is very common among infants. Colic is excessive crying and irritability in infants because of stomach or intestinal discomfort caused by air spasm or inflammation. This happens when infants are given formula in a bottle because they get to suck some air when sucking milk.
For the mom: Massively reduces the uterus inflammation and brings back the uterus size to normal. In short, liliit agad o mawawala na yung puson at tiyan mo.
It also reduces birth weight and gets you back to your normal weight in one week. It makes you lose 500 calories per feeding which means you do not need to work out so much and you can eat whatever you want since you get to lose it anyway.
Disadvantages: You will be the slave of your child or the breast pump every two hours, if not, your breast will explode of breast milk. Well, it won’t really explode but it will feel like it—it’s called engorgement.
You will be the U.F.M., the Ultimate Feeding Machine of your child. You feel helpless and you won’t get to do anything else, even write a blog entry!
But things will normalize in a month and you will learn to do other things around your breastfeeding schedule, and you will be proud that the Ultimate Feeding Machine is the Ultimate Sacrifice a mother can make for her child. And the word sacrifice is an understatement! "
