Perinatal TCM care

The perinatal period is the important period before and after delivery, from 28 weeks of pregnancy to one week after delivery. Perinatal health care is a series of health care for the mother, fetus and newborn during the prenatal, delivery and postnatal periods, so that the mother’s health and the growth and development of the fetus and newborn are well protected. The purpose of perinatal health care is to reduce the morbidity and mortality of the infant and the mother. As we all know, women have different physiological characteristics during their menstruation, pregnancy and postpartum period. Qi and blood deficiency. After childbirth, the body is relatively weak, at this time, it is easy to external cold and heat of the evil, cold coagulation heat burn for stasis, cell clothing residue, blood stasis internal obstruction. Therefore, postpartum women are characterized by “more deficiency and more stasis”, that is to say, the weakness of Qi and blood at this time is not just deficiency, but also stagnation. Therefore, traditional Chinese medicine, in response to the physiological characteristics of “multiple deficiencies and stagnation” after childbirth, advocates the regulation of maternal life, diet and emotions after childbirth, especially in terms of medicine, to appropriately give the maternal deficiencies and eliminate stagnation, to help the recovery of vital energy, remove stagnation in the body, promote the body to restore, and achieve the purpose of preventing and treating postpartum diseases. There are many kinds of postpartum diseases, postpartum lack of milk is a relatively common disease, the following we know how to prevent postpartum lack of milk through Chinese medicine health care: postpartum lack of milk refers to the maternal in the postpartum period of 2 to 10 days no milk secretion and too little secretion; or in the puerperium, lactation, when the milk is on the line, milk secretion is reduced or completely absent; even can not feed the baby, collectively referred to as lack of milk. According to Chinese medicine, there are several reasons for lack of milk: weakness of qi and blood, phlegm and dampness, and liver depression and qi stagnation. It is easy to understand the weakness of qi and blood, because milk is produced by qi and blood, so women with deficiency of qi and blood are prone to lack of milk. They are usually thin, yellow or white, easily fatigued, easily panicked, do not eat much, and have no energy, like this case should be early to improve their own physique, such as dates, black fungus, pig’s blood, duck blood, etc., to make a medicinal meal, you can add astragalus, angelica, gum and other drugs to nourish the blood. There is also a relatively common situation, that is, after the birth of a large number of supplements, what chicken soup, fish soup, ribs soup, all on, eat every day, some people can eat dozens of pounds of eggs, dozens of chickens during the menstrual period, maternal such reckless eating, the purpose is to provide adequate food for the baby, but we often see a part of the maternal after eating a lot, they have gained a lot of weight, see greasy things on the vomit, but less and less milk. According to Chinese medicine, excessive consumption of fatty, sweet and greasy foods will damage the spleen and stomach, causing phlegm and dampness to grow inside. It’s very sticky, right? This kind of thing in the body will obstruct the normal operation of qi and blood, so you eat so many greasy things are growing on their own, preventing the transformation of qi and blood to produce milk, how to avoid it? Then do not supplement? Nor, you do not eat, milk will naturally decrease, first of all, the first day or two after giving birth, the spleen and stomach is very weak, suddenly eat a lot of fatty food, it is easy to damage the spleen and stomach function, so the diet should be easy to digest, to be delicious, to eat more soup, not oil and water! In addition, like some fat body type, greasy skin, easy to chest tightness, easy to phlegm, fat tongue, slow movement of women should pay more attention to these are the characteristics of phlegm and damp body, do not learn to eat like others! There is another situation I don’t know if you’ve heard of, originally the milk is good, one day, there was an argument with someone, after a rage, the milk suddenly less, or even no milk. This situation is what we call in Chinese medicine liver depression and qi stagnation, anger hurts the liver, liver qi stagnation, qi and blood can not run smoothly, milk can not be properly secreted, how to prevent it? How to prevent it? Just don’t get angry, so it requires the cooperation of the family. Women experience a major event before and after the birth, physiological and psychological changes are very large, sensitive and fragile nerves, especially after childbirth need the care and attention of family members, this time if the family does not give enough care, it is easy to cause maternal emotional changes, especially some women who usually love to sulk, pay more attention to the postpartum anger, the lighter the lack of milk, the heavier will get postpartum depression. If something really happens, we should learn to adjust ourselves, give you a sentence together: the only body in this world is their own, do not go against themselves, a healthy body to have a happy life! Wish you all a smooth birth, healthy and beautiful!