The process of giving birth to a baby makes pregnant mothers feel sacred and sweet, but the series of pregnancy reactions such as morning sickness, pregnancy-induced hypertension, and lower limb edema are long and difficult. What foods can help pregnant mothers? Yu Mei, director of the obstetrics department of Beijing Queen Mary Hospital, said that foods such as honey, winter melon, celery, and animal liver can help pregnant women prevent and relieve discomfort.
1. Honey promotes sleep and prevents constipation
Among natural foods, the energy required by brain neurons has the highest content in honey. If pregnant women drink a cup of honey water before going to bed, its soothing effect can relieve discomforts such as excessive dreaming, easy awakening, and poor sleep, and improve sleep quality. When pregnant women drink water every morning and afternoon, if they put a few drops of honey in the water, it can slow down bowel movements and effectively prevent constipation and hemorrhoids.
2. Winter melon and watermelon eliminate edema of the lower limbs
In late pregnancy, pregnant women often experience postural edema in their feet and ankles due to compression of the inferior vena cava and obstruction of blood return, but this usually resolves after rest. will disappear. If the edema does not disappear after rest or is severe and there are no other abnormalities, it is called edema of pregnancy. Winter melon is cold in nature, sweet in taste, rich in water, and can quench thirst and diuresis. If you make soup with carp, the edema in the lower limbs of pregnant women can be reduced. Watermelon has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, diuresis and reducing swelling. Regular consumption will increase the urine output of pregnant women, thereby expelling excess water from the body and helping eliminate edema in the lower limbs.
3. Celery prevents and treats pregnancy-induced hypertension
Celery is rich in nutrients such as carotene, VC, niacin and mannitol. In particular, some nutrients in the leaves are higher than those in celery stems. It is more abundant and has the effects of clearing away heat and cooling blood, refreshing the brain, diuresis, sedation and lowering blood pressure. Regular consumption in late pregnancy can help pregnant women lower their blood pressure, and can also prevent and treat complications such as iron deficiency anemia and preeclampsia caused by pregnancy-induced hypertension syndrome.
4. Potatoes reduce morning sickness
Potatoes are rich in vitamin B and have antiemetic effects, and the most prominent manifestation of pregnant women in the early stages of pregnancy
Nausea, vomiting and loss of appetite, eating very little. If you eat more potatoes, it can help pregnant women relieve their symptoms of greasy aversion and vomiting.