Breastfeeding helps to lose weight, but it is certainly not necessary to lose weight. Breast milk is the best natural nutritious food for babies. Secondly, breastfeeding can also promote the uterine contraction of new mothers, which is conducive to postpartum recovery. If you want to lose weight, breast-feed well, because breast-feeding can help new mothers consume calories, even if there is more soup and water, they won't gain much weight. But this is not the only way to sit back and relax, because overeating is still not conducive to postpartum weight loss.

Within 42 days after delivery, new mothers should not blindly diet to lose weight. Just after giving birth, the body has not fully recovered to the pre-pregnancy level, and some new mothers are still shouldering heavy feeding tasks. At this time, it is time to supplement nutrition. Postpartum forced dieting will not only lead to slow recovery of new mothers, but also lead to various postpartum complications.

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Postpartum exercise opportunities

Maternal women should not exercise in a hurry, especially if the exercise mode is incorrect, which will cause pelvic dislocation, backache and backache. Intense exercise can easily lead to re-injury and bleeding of pudendal wounds. Exercising vigorously to lose weight immediately after delivery may slow down the recovery of uterus and cause bleeding. In severe cases, the surgical segment or vulvar incision will be damaged again during delivery.

Generally speaking, after 4 ~ 6 weeks of natural delivery, the parturient can start to do postpartum slimming exercise, and caesarean section producers need 6 ~ 8 weeks or longer recovery period, so they should be more careful when exercising.

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