Why do women gain weight after giving birth? The lactation period is usually 6 months to one year. Because the baby is still young, it often needs to be breastfed, and the mother lacks exercise. Because she often gets up at night to breastfeed and lacks sleep, she drinks a lot of greasy soup every day in order to breastfeed.
Overeating and lack of exercise lead to more and more serious postpartum weight gain of expectant mothers. Instead of getting thinner on their bellies, they have swimming rings.
How do postpartum women slim down and lose their stomachs? 1. Postpartum belt.
It can not only shrink the stomach, reduce the cumbersome stomach, but also guide the rational distribution of fat and burn abdominal fat to achieve the effect of slimming.
2. Pelvic abdominal belt. If a woman's pelvis is slack and does not return to its original position after delivery, a pelvic abdominal belt is needed.
3. Stick to breast milk. Breast milk is the best way for women to lose weight. In addition, they should keep exercising for an hour every day, and their diet should not be too greasy, so as to lose weight slowly.
Women who have children tend to get fat. What is the reason? After giving birth to a child, some mothers can lose weight quickly, and some mothers are out of shape and become very fat, so it is still difficult to lose weight. Why?
1, abdominal relaxation
During pregnancy, the expectant mother's abdominal pressure is getting bigger and bigger, and the fascia becomes very fragile. After giving birth to a child, the stomach loses its elasticity like a rubber band, and it is difficult to recover in a short time.
2, lack of sleep
Mothers have to take care of their babies after giving birth, and often get up at night to feed their babies. They are seriously deprived of sleep, which hinders the metabolism of carbohydrates, leading to the increase of blood sugar concentration and insulin concentration in the body, which leads to the storage of more fat in the body.
3, blindly drink prolactin soup.
In order to realize breastfeeding, mothers with insufficient postpartum breast milk blindly drink breast-feeding soup. Indeed, drinking soup can play a certain role in promoting lactation, but some soups, such as broth, chicken soup, bone soup and so on. Both contain a lot of fat. Drinking directly is not only easy to gain weight, but also a lot of fat will enter the baby's body through breast milk, so the baby's stomach is delicate, and the intake of fat is easy to cause diarrhea.
4. Lack of exercise
Mother has to take care of the baby after giving birth, lack of sleep and so much energy to exercise. There are more opportunities for fat accumulation and fewer opportunities for consumption, so they are getting fatter and fatter.
How to lose weight after childbirth? 1, adjust eating habits
After pregnancy, the mother will adjust her eating habits to meet the needs of the fetus. After giving birth to a baby, she can't readjust her eating habits as she did when she was pregnant, but reasonable nutrition is still essential. Therefore, new mothers can do a good job in the diet structure, such as paying attention to high-fiber foods such as vegetables, fruits and whole grains, which can not only provide a lot of important nutrition, but also make you feel less hungry.
In addition, eat less and eat more meals, eat more foods rich in protein, such as lean meat, eggs and poultry, milk and beans, and stay away from high-sugar and high-fat foods, such as sweet cakes, chocolate and braised pork.
Step 2 drink plenty of water
Drinking more water can not only make new mothers eat less, but also promote metabolism. Most importantly, drinking more water can also help milk secretion.
Step 3 exercise more
Exercise can help new mothers consume more calories to lose weight, make them feel good, make them feel tired after exercise and help them sleep better.
For mothers who gave birth naturally, it is generally recommended to resume exercise after 42 days after delivery. Don't worry too much at first, step by step, and gradually increase the amount of exercise.
For mothers who have caesarean section, they will gradually resume exercise two months after delivery. They can take more walks at first, then go quickly, then gradually transition to jogging and running, or combine swimming and yoga.
4, ensure sleep
I can't sleep well, lose weight, sleep well, feel bad, and won't take the initiative to exercise. This is a vicious circle. Therefore, the new father and family should help the mother share some housework, take care of the baby and let the new mother have more time to rest. New mothers can also sleep with their babies when they want to sleep.
5. Breastfeeding
Breast milk contains a certain amount of fat, so breast-feeding can also help new mothers to supplement some fat, so as to achieve the purpose of slimming.
Perhaps many people will doubt that breastfeeding can slim down, because many mothers insist on breastfeeding after childbirth, and it is difficult to return to their prenatal weight, because they gain too much weight during pregnancy. In addition, there are some mothers who, although breast-fed, eat too much and do not exercise during lactation, but gain weight.
Therefore, although breastfeeding can consume energy and help to lose weight, there is still no way to lose weight if the intake is greater than the consumption. Therefore, if you want to lose weight successfully after delivery, it is essential to have a reasonable diet, insist on exercise and ensure sleep.
It is normal for women to gain weight after childbirth. After the fertilized egg is fertilized, the pregnant mother's body has undergone earth-shaking changes, from breast softening to enlargement, postpartum pelvis enlargement and pelvic relaxation. The whole body is relaxed, and the fat on her belly can overlap layers of swimming rings. Many pregnant mothers not only grow spots after giving birth, but also lose the confidence that women should have.
The saddest thing for a pregnant mother is that her lover doesn't like her. Nothing can make a woman sad. A woman is willing to give birth to a child for you, which means that this woman believes that she has lived with you all her life and worked hard to prepare for pregnancy, pregnancy in October, morning sickness in the first trimester, false contractions in the second trimester, backache, buttock pain, pudendal pain, dyskinesia in the second trimester, frequent urination, every time.
Some pregnant mothers refuse to feed because they want to keep their breasts firm, because many treasure mothers often bite their nipples and then pull them back, and the muscle elasticity of their breasts is getting worse and worse.
During lactation, pregnant mothers will have more and more prolactin. Babies with areola will stimulate Ma Bao's pituitary gland, and then secrete a lot of prolactin, which will secrete a lot of milk, and breast milk will be more and more. When refusing breast-feeding, if you don't excrete milk in time, it is easy to swell up, and breast-feeding consumes half of Ma Bao's exercise energy every day, so breast-feeding can lose weight.
Second, the proportion of caesarean section remains high.
At present, the proportion of caesarean section in China is the highest in the world, not only because pregnant mothers are afraid of pain, but also because the fetal position is not correct, and both horizontal and breech positions need caesarean section. Nowadays, there are many diseases. Due to hyperglycemia, hypertension, abnormal uterus of pregnant mothers, placental abruption and other reasons, the proportion of caesarean section is increasing.
Because of caesarean section, the pregnant mother's wound will be more painful, and the activity after caesarean section will be more painful. Many pregnant mothers don't want to exercise, which will lead to more and more abdominal fat and can't be consumed. Caesarean section wounds have a long recovery period and involve more wounds each time. In the process of wound healing, it is painful and aerobic, which deeply affects the mood of pregnant mothers, leading to their bad temper and easy obesity.
Third, there is too much milk soup.
The most important thing after delivery is to give milk, and the mother-in-law is responsible for this soup. Many times, the elderly are afraid that the baby's milk is not enough, and that the baby is not full. So during pregnancy, many pregnant mothers will not gain weight under such feeding.
Pregnant mothers have not completely consumed the milk-god soup. By the third trimester, they have already pushed the product, and after giving birth, they have to push energy, so pregnant mothers are getting fatter and fatter. Pig's foot soup, crucian carp soup and old hen don't want to see it again after the pregnant mother gives birth to the baby. This greasy thing can't reach the digestive ability of pregnant mother's stomach, because during pregnancy, the fetus and amniotic fluid are squeezed and slowly reset after delivery. If pregnant mothers don't like exercise and recover slowly, then intestinal peristalsis will be less.
How does pregnant mother restore her lightning figure? I wonder if there will be such a mother around you. During the whole pregnancy, she will maintain a relatively balanced weight gain rate. During the whole pregnancy, she and the fetus in the abdomen will gain a total of 20 kilograms. After careful conditioning and repair after delivery, they will slowly return to their pre-pregnancy posture, which is very enviable.
This kind of postpartum recovery is really what every mother wants to achieve. However, in real life, not all mothers will have such postpartum recovery. On the contrary, many mothers will complain that their children will be out of shape all their lives, and they have tried many ways to lose weight and fat, but the results are minimal. I am eager to understand and solve this problem.
So, what makes everyone fat after childbirth? How to improve as soon as possible in the face of such a dilemma? Let's take a look now.
0 1, there are many reasons for postpartum obesity.
First, you can't blindly take tonics.
For many mothers and friends, after being pregnant in October, they would have put more energy into their daily life and diet, and even ate more and ate too well. Imagine that such a relaxed weight management during pregnancy will lead to excessive weight gain and make it difficult to recover postpartum weight.
When the mother gained too much weight during pregnancy and added food without any taboo after delivery, it is conceivable that the result is that the weight is maintained at a high level and it is difficult to lose it. In addition, lochia has not been removed in the first two weeks after giving birth to the baby, so it is not appropriate to supplement it. On the contrary, the focus of food arrangement should be on promoting metabolism, and too much water is excreted, which is conducive to physical recovery and weight loss.
Second, the movement has not kept up.
After giving birth, they will go through a stage of physical and mental exhaustion. A considerable number of new mothers will feel that their bodies need rest more, and do not put postpartum exercise on the agenda. In fact, whether it is a mother who gives birth naturally or has a caesarean section, it is best to start a planned weight loss and physical exercise after the puerperium.
If you don't do physical exercise and recovery work in time, it is very likely that the fat in the waist and buttocks of the new mother will be difficult to fade, which will lead to the difficulty in restoring skin elasticity.
Third, no one is breastfeeding.
In fact, breastfeeding is not a very troublesome and uncomfortable feeding method, but it will not only be beneficial to the healthy growth of newborn babies, but also to the recovery of new mothers. When a mother breastfeeds her baby, the body produces milk. Of course, the way the body naturally makes food will consume the fat tissue stored by the new mother during pregnancy.
If you don't feed your baby in this way, you may not be able to effectively reduce the excessive fat accumulated by new mothers during pregnancy, and the road to losing weight will naturally be very difficult.
02, postpartum recovery posture can try to do this.
First, the food arrangement should be less salt.
Throughout pregnancy, the mother's body will accumulate this large amount of water, reaching more than 60%, which needs to be excreted slowly after delivery. If the food eaten during lactation is too salty, the water in the body will not be excreted and will remain in the body. In addition, drinking water should be controlled, and drinking water without scruple will cause metabolic pain, which is not conducive to the success of slimming.
Choice: The food arrangement should be light, less salt and fat, eat while it is hot, chew slowly and eat less snacks. So that you don't have to worry about getting fat after tonic.
Second, postpartum exercise is exquisite
Postpartum physical recovery is a process. After pregnancy, not only the body shape has changed dramatically, but also the function of the new mother's body organs needs to be restored. Therefore, after considering that there is nothing wrong with your body and the function of your organs has completely recovered, you should start a weight loss plan.
Postpartum physical exercise should be gradual, at the same time, we should take into account our own physical endurance, and we can't force it. Especially for new mothers who have caesarean section, it is best to communicate with your doctor in advance.
Choice: Of course, for mothers who have exercise habits before delivery, they can continue their favorite suitable exercise after the puerperium. If there is no exercise habit, new mothers can start with simple and gentle exercise and walking.
The new mother is very concerned about her body shape, which is a natural manifestation of her requirements. Then there must be a way to pursue a good figure, hoping to regain a good figure from now on.
Women who give birth to children tend to get fat, mainly for the following reasons:
1. Prenatal overnutrition. As we all know, the whole pregnancy is absorbed by two people, and many pregnant mothers' families will urge pregnant mothers to eat more and make up more. In the third trimester, with the rapid growth of the fetus, some pregnant mothers can't control their diet. During pregnancy, the diet is exquisite, the food intake becomes larger, and the intake exceeds the needs of oneself and the fetus, causing obesity!
Therefore, weight control during pregnancy is not only important for production, but also important for postpartum body recovery! Pay attention to eating coarse grains, vegetables, high-protein foods and moderate fruits during pregnancy, because many fruits have high sugar content.
2. Eat more during lactation! I believe many mothers have had this experience: during lactation, they ate more than usual, but they were hungrier than usual. At this time, it is easy to enter a hungry cycle. The more you eat, the fatter your body will become. At present, I am in such a cycle myself, but I am lucky not to gain weight!
For lactating mothers, losing weight is relatively easy. After all, mothers have slimming artifacts during breastfeeding: babies. The baby eats a lot every day, so most of the nutrients ingested by the mother enter the milk for the baby to eat. Another point is also very important. You can digest food quickly during lactation, but you should also be careful not to overeat. You can take the method of eating less and eating more meals, which can satisfy the stomach and intestines without taking in too much nutrition. I rely on these two points to control weight gain!
3. Pregnancy will relax the abdomen. During pregnancy, the pregnant mother's rectus abdominis will be separated to some extent, which is also a reason why the postpartum stomach is not easy to recover.
In order to solve this problem, I repaired the rectus abdominis according to the advice of the postpartum doctor. Although my stomach is not obvious, I'm not sure whether the repair has worked! In addition to rectus abdominis muscle repair, I still insist on using abdominal belt, which will eat less. Another point is also the doctor's advice: in the case of separation of rectus abdominis, mothers are not suitable for doing sit-ups and other abdominal movements. It is best to have fewer children during this recovery period! You can try to make a flat support.
Many women around me are like blowing balloons after giving birth, and the whole person is about to explode. That's my type. I've been eating meat since I got pregnant. Comparing the life, body, mentality and exercise before and after giving birth, I think there are several reasons for postpartum obesity:
1, physiological factors
Physiological factors are one of the reasons for getting fat. Generally, children are about 30 years old after birth. When people reach the extreme of 30 to 35 years old, the functions of various organs in the body begin to decline, such as respiratory system and heart function, and the corresponding metabolism will also be affected, and the consumption of body heat will be reduced, thus accumulating a large amount of fat that cannot be consumed, mainly in the abdomen, buttocks and most parts. At the age of 30-80, 40% of the body's muscle mass will disappear, muscle fibers will decrease, and the remaining muscles will become weak. Similarly, the strength and quality of bones will lose 1% every ten years after the age of 30.
2. Dietary factors
Most housewives and mothers have the same problem. They didn't have time to eat until they took care of the children. At the moment, it's getting late and the body consumption is low, which is undoubtedly a huge problem for losing weight. Secondly, most thrifty middle-aged women are used to eating what their children haven't finished, and inadvertently eat too much. Moreover, some people feel full and always feel that their desire to eat is not satisfied. Moreover, international studies have proved that not being full will prompt the brain to direct our behavior and continue to eat.
3. Psychological factors
This refers to a comfortable life mood. After a woman gives birth to a child or gets married, her living environment changes and her mood changes. Most of them are happy, relaxed and comfortable. Over time, they tend to slack off and relax the strict requirements on their body before marriage, which is also one of the important factors of obesity.
Step 4 reduce the amount of exercise
With the increase of age, the activity and exercise amount of middle-aged and elderly people have decreased to varying degrees. For example, the nature of work has changed, most people have changed their jobs or retired to the second line, their lives have gradually stabilized, and their mental tension has also relaxed. Therefore, they eat more and eat more, and their intake virtually exceeds their needs, which will lead to obesity after a long time.
So postpartum obesity is not obesity for no reason. Find the right reason and prescribe the right medicine. I believe you will lose weight.
How to correct it as soon as possible? I think it is necessary to do this: getting fat after childbirth is a problem that many mothers have to face. But I can't control my diet to stop my weight from soaring. Because the mother wants to ensure the nutrition that the baby needs every day. Let's find the root of postpartum obesity for postpartum mothers and how to prevent obesity for postpartum children.
Causes of postpartum obesity: 1, physical changes.
Deficiency of both qi and blood is a common phenomenon in postpartum women. At this time, most women have the phenomenon of meridian obstruction, qi stagnation and blood stasis, and the decline of basal metabolic rate, which invisibly affects the normal recovery of the body and can also hinder the normal metabolic level of fat.
2. Changes in physiological structure
(1) Endocrine changes: During pregnancy, women's hypothalamic gonad function appears temporary disorder, which leads to imbalance of fat metabolism and obesity.
(2) Pregnancy: The weight gain from fetus, placenta and amniotic fluid accounts for about half of the total weight gain of women after delivery, which means that the more weight gain during pregnancy, the more fat may be left after delivery.
(3) Edema: During pregnancy, the uterus is expanding day by day, resulting in compressive force, which leads to the obstruction of venous return of systemic circulation system, resulting in different degrees of pregnancy edema; During childbirth and postpartum, a large amount of blood returns to the circulatory system, causing postpartum body swelling.
3, abdominal muscles relax
Postpartum abdominal muscle relaxation is one of the main causes of obesity. During pregnancy, the pressure in the abdominal cavity is increasing, so the fascia will become very fragile, so after the baby is born, a woman's stomach is like a rubber band that has lost its elasticity, and it is difficult to recover.
4. Overnutrition
Overnutrition is also one of the main causes of obesity. Of course, this is mainly for the sake of the baby. Before and after pregnancy, you can eat whatever you want. In addition, during the second month, you can drink various soups to promote lactation. There is also a lot of oil in it. How can you not be fat?
5, changes in exercise: postpartum women need rest and training, sleep increases, exercise decreases, making the calorie consumption drop sharply, causing obesity.
6, bad emotions: anxiety, irritability, anger, sadness, anger and other bad emotions will make women's endocrine system dysfunction, affect the body's metabolism, resulting in obesity and other problems. It is best for women to be optimistic after delivery, and it is inevitable to wait for bad emotional stimulation.
7. Postpartum constipation
As the old saying goes, ten-month-old children have nine constipation, and postpartum constipation is mainly caused by slow gastrointestinal peristalsis and too greasy diet. Under normal circumstances, pregnant women will also eat a lot of so-called nutritious foods with high fat when they are pregnant, so it is more likely to cause obesity.
8, pathological reasons
In addition, some women's postpartum obesity may also be pathological reasons, such as Cushing's syndrome, hypothyroidism, drug-induced, subcutaneous obesity, visceral fat, pituitary gland and so on. Therefore, women should also do a good physical examination after delivery. Once obesity caused by pathological factors is diagnosed, they should be actively treated to avoid harm to their health.
How to prevent obesity after delivery? 1, early activities
Experts here tell postpartum mothers that they can choose to do some simple housework after half a month, but they must pay attention to the premise that they are healthy after childbirth. Because exercise can enhance the function of neuroendocrine system and promote the regulation of metabolism, it can consume too much fat and sugar in the body, which can not only prevent obesity, but also prevent postpartum constipation.
Postpartum 1 month, yoga, stationary bicycle, swimming and walking are the main exercises, and strenuous and jumping exercises are not suitable to avoid muscle ligament injury and uterine prolapse.
Two months after delivery, you can do strenuous aerobic exercise, such as jogging and aerobic dance, to improve heart and lung function and accelerate metabolism.
Step 2 eat a reasonable diet
Don't eat too much food with high fat after giving birth, you can choose to eat some lean meat or soy products. The foods recommended by experts include fish, eggs, vegetables, fruits, etc., which can not only meet the human body's demand for protein, minerals, vitamins and fiber, but also prevent obesity.
Step 3 breastfeed yourself
Some women don't want to breastfeed themselves, or always avoid it for other reasons. In fact, breastfeeding can accelerate milk secretion, promote maternal metabolism and nutrient circulation, transport redundant nutrients in body tissues, and reduce the accumulation of subcutaneous fat, thus effectively preventing obesity.
Many women who have given birth don't want to get fat, but they have to face the reality that their bodies are much worse than before pregnancy, their stomachs are loose, their waists are thick, and the whole person looks fat. The most sincere thing is weight, which is not much lighter than before birth.
This is the case when you have a second child, but it is really not the case when you are born again. After giving birth to the first child, just after the second month, she completely recovered to pre-pregnancy.
Looking back at the differences between the two eras, the biggest difference lies in diet. When I gave birth to my first child, I didn't deliberately eat more greasy things in my diet. Usually a normal diet. After giving birth to a second child, there is not enough milk. In order to give milk, I ate a lot of pork ribs and trotters and drank a lot of soup in the second month. After eating so many things, the most effective thing is not the increase of milk, but the growth of a lot of meat.
Another difference is that when the first child is born, there is plenty of milk and exclusive breastfeeding. In the second child, due to the lack of milk, a bucket of milk powder should be mixed every month, which belongs to mixed feeding. As I said before, I still want to eat more milk, so the meat is in a vicious circle and grows on myself.
Therefore, if you want to control your weight after childbirth, you must first ensure that you don't eat too many greasy things in your diet, and you'd better breastfeed.
One is that people may be physically like that, and they won't get fat no matter how they eat. Second, people eat less. Another is that people pay attention to exercise after childbirth and have a high degree of self-discipline.
So if you get fat after giving birth, is there any hope? Sure, but be self-disciplined, exercise more and eat less.
A nanny I know gained weight while nursing her baby. Strengthen exercise after weaning and do yoga every day. Now my figure has recovered very well. The vest line has also come out, and the pants before pregnancy are all fat. According to her, she has reached the best state in history.
I think as long as there are two reasons, the first is physical reasons, natural, and the second is usual habits.
Generally, women will be obese when they are pregnant, because expectant mothers will supplement nutrition, reduce exercise and dare not work during pregnancy, so the corresponding thing is to gain weight and supplement nutrition for the baby.
After giving birth to the baby, I thought I could lose weight, but as a result, my weight only increased. I see some mothers eat a lot every day and don't go on a diet, but they have good weight and figure. Look at myself, I dare not eat every day, go on a diet every day, and finally I am in poor shape and have not lost weight. Finally, I lost a little weight, ate a little and rebounded.
In fact, a big reason is determined by genes. Genes determine your absorption ability and whether you gain weight. But apart from this reason that we can't change, we can still do something to control and increase weight.
1, exercise, you must exercise every day to promote digestion, promote intestinal peristalsis, promote defecation, avoid repeated absorption of stool, and greatly improve your immunity.
2, diet rules, we must ensure that eat less and eat more meals, do not overeat, which will lead to indigestion, food accumulation, food accumulation, leading to repeated absorption of stool.
3, go to bed early and get up early, it is best to go to bed early and get up early at the specified time every day to avoid bad habits and stay up late to damage the liver, which is very bad for the body.
4, insist on breastfeeding, the baby's breast milk also needs energy, which digests the mother's energy well and will lose weight accordingly. Is there anything better than lying down to lose weight?
5, dressing, it is best to wear an abdominal belt, so that not only can the skin on the stomach be elastic and restore elasticity, but it is also very easy to restore the body and stay away from the big belly.
6, keep a good mood, some mothers are depressed after childbirth, which is very bad for the body. Mom should be happy and keep a good mood, which is not only good for herself, but also good for the baby.