Adding cinnamon to yogurt will warm it up.ħ. When eating dairy, choose drier and harder cheeses (less damp and cooling), and plain or neutral flavors of yogurt. Avoid all raw vegetables until month four after giving birth, then eat raw vegetables sparingly.Ħ. Avoid eating leftovers right out of the refrigerator without warming.ĥ. Eat lots of soups and stews, such as bone broth soup, miso soup, chicken soup and beef stew.Ĥ. Drink only warm or room temperature beverages.ģ.Include warming proteins with your breakfast. Start your day with a warm, cooked breakfast.Having a nice mix of temperatures, flavors, and foods greatly enhances health.Ĩ ways you can have warm digestion on a daily basis during breastfeeding: Oriental Medicine is about seeking balance in all areas of life, including food and digestion. If you are breastfeeding this may also affect the digestion of your newborn manifesting as: gas, bloating, colic, reflux (or frequent spitting up). You may physically feel the effects of a cool digestion as: slow healing after childbirth, slow to lose the pregnancy weight, irregular digestion and fatigue. If your digestion is cool or cold, your ability to properly digest food is weakened. Oriental Medicine has shown that keeping a warm digestion during the postpartum period is very important for the health of both mother and baby. The more cool foods and drinks you have, the harder your digestive system must work in order to “heat” the food to properly digest. For example, iced water is cold, but you can warm water to a neutral room temperature, or you can boil it to make it hot.
Cooking, as well as certain ways of preparing food, such as adding spices, can help change the temperature qualities of some foods. All foods, herbs, and spices are categorized and have a temperature, ranging from cold to hot. Think of your digestive system as a soup pot that needs to reach a certain temperature to begin to “cook” (or properly digest) the food. The concept of keeping a warm digestion is deeply rooted in Oriental Medicine. This will help your body heal as well as support breastfeeding and help your newborn have a healthy digestion and reduce the possibility of colic and other digestive upsets. It is very important to eat warming and nourishing foods whilst breastfeeding and especially for the first three months after giving birth. NUTRITION FOR BREASTFEEDING & HEALING POSTPARTUM
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