How soon to have a bowel movement after normal delivery

  You can have a bowel movement at any time after a normal delivery.  After a normal delivery, a woman can have a bowel movement whenever she feels like it. In fact, after normal delivery, you can eat normal diet and increase soup appropriately (a lot of sweating, milk production consumes a lot of water), so that you can resume normal bowel movement as soon as possible. However, after delivery, it is often due to eating semi-liquid food, such as millet porridge, noodles, etc., and few vegetables and fruits, which increases the obstacle of defecation and leads to constipation after delivery because there is no intention to defecate for several days. However, it should be noted that excessive forceful defecation, especially for mothers with lateral incision in normal delivery, increases the risk of wound tearing, bleeding and infection. Therefore, after delivery must resume normal diet as soon as possible, coarse and fine, meat and vegetable combination, more vegetables and fruits, fiber-rich food to promote the gastrointestinal tract peristalsis, maintain good bowel habits, reduce the occurrence of constipation. Once constipation occurs, you can take some necessary means to promote defecation, such as honey water, lactulose, etc., if necessary, the application of open-cell road. Do not give a large amount of greasy tonic food because of maternal weakness after delivery, which is more likely to lead to constipation. Therefore, pregnant women can generally have bowel movements at any time, without deliberate control for fear of tearing wounds, if the phenomenon of constipation to take timely measures to avoid too long without bowel movements affect health, causing unnecessary trouble.