Causes of postpartum obesity

Pregnancy and childbirth is the happiest thing in a woman's life is also the most painful thing, this process is the crystallization of love, is the transmission of blood, but also a reflection of the value of life, but also lost a lot, slim body, lost the free time of youth, lost carefree is life, postpartum obesity is a lot of women distressed thing, but what is the cause of this?

The change of physiological structure leads to obesity

Weight gain is an important and obvious physiological changes during pregnancy, in addition to the weight from the fetus, placenta and amniotic fluid, the mother itself because of endocrine changes, there are also some changes, for example: the increase of kinetin, women's fat also increased; luteinizing hormone rise, ready to breastfeeding makes more lactogen, etc.. Generally pregnant women gain 13-20 kg during pregnancy, of which 7 kg are fat cells. After giving birth to a small baby and losing a lot of water, the mother's body still has 7 kg of fat left, which will follow her for the rest of her life if she does not lose weight properly.

Changes in lifestyle habits lead to obesity

During pregnancy

Pregnant women, in order to let the baby in the womb absorb sufficient nutrition and grow up healthily, follow the principle of "one person eats, two people make up" and leave behind the diet concept that they used to avoid eating because they were afraid of gaining weight, and try to eat as much food as possible in the hope that the fetus can get enough nutrition, but this often fails to grasp a good degree, and the one who makes up more can only be stored up by the mother. It's hard not to want to be fat.

During the menstrual period

In order to achieve the purpose of postpartum tonic, the traditional way of sitting on the moon, is to eat a lot of sesame oil chicken, peanut stewed pig's feet, high-calorie offal type of food, modern people must amend the concept of eating too much oil when sitting on the moon; because in the past people live in poverty, there is a general phenomenon of malnutrition, coupled with medical technology is not developed, the mother in labor bleeding a lot, resulting in physical weakness, and therefore the use of more oil, more wine, high protein and other foods for tonic. The main purpose of this food is to provide calories, not nutrients. The common problem of modern people is the excess of calories, but lack of nutrition, so in the postpartum period, we should focus on the intake of fiber, in order to help defecate, lift constipation, and restore the slender figure.

How long can I lose weight after giving birth?

After the birth of a period of time can not reduce the diet, mainly because during this period of time both itself and the child need a certain amount of energy to maintain the health of the body, especially breastfeeding mothers, normal mothers in the 6 weeks after the birth of the hospital to do a review, at this time the doctor will give you some dietary advice, you can properly adjust the diet structure, conditioning the body, if breastfeeding, at least after 2 months to Start reducing your diet to lose weight. If you are breastfeeding, you should not start reducing your diet to lose weight until at least 2 months later. A woman who has given birth by caesarean section should not reduce her diet at will because she needs a lot of protein and energy to repair her wounds.

How long does it take to get back in shape after childbirth?

Pregnant women from pregnancy to childbirth after more than 9 months, although also in the birth of a lot of weight loss, but there are 74% of maternity can not return to the prenatal figure, abdomen after more than 9 months of slow growth, want to lose weight at least after half a year, which is considered normal weight loss, so you can not rush.