During confinement, women should eat some nutritious and digestible foods for breakfast, such as egg custard, soup, noodles and porridge. Among them, the nutrition is very rich, and it can stimulate appetite and promote maternal milk secretion, which has many benefits for postpartum health recovery.

However, some soups and porridge eaten by pregnant women should be supplemented with some nutrients to meet the nutritional requirements for physical recovery. For example, adding sweet potato and brown sugar to millet porridge can play a very good role in invigorating spleen and stomach, enriching blood and benefiting qi.