Food for mini confinement

After my D/C in Mar'10. I have went through 20 days mini confinement .I guess the confinement thing applys to most asians only as we believe that mothers have gone through D/C or miscarraiges are very weak in bodies and the harm is more greater than normal full term delivery. For the duration of confinement that will depends on individual. Some prefer to have a full 1 month confinement , others 2 weeks. For myself, I do it for a period of 20 days.

So I will share here on what type of food I have eaten during my mini confinement period.
Basically regular meals are encourage.

Breakfast

1) Biscuits + Milo / Bread + Milo or chocolate drink ( Milo drinks are to be make with boiled water with red dates only )

Drinks
1) water boiled with chinese red dates
I was told not to drink plain water during confinement period. Drinks are to be consumed hot /luke warm with chinese red dates.
Confinement menu ( 1st day - 7th Day - during menses)

-Breakfast
Biscuits + Milo / Bread + Milo or chocolate drink ( Milo drinks are to be make with boiled water with red dates only )

-Lunch & dinner
1) Small gai lan fry with old ginger .Use sesame oil to cook instead of normal oil for all cooking
2) Shallow fried Cod fish with old ginger.
3) fried Pig liver with sesame oil
4) Steam egg with sesam oil with old ginger
5) fried 4 season beans with seasme oil with old ginger
6) pig's kidney fried with old ginger , add some sesame oil ( this believe to help strengthen
the kidney function )

Below are meals which you can try after menses are clear.Normally, you can include wine
into the dishes.
1) chinese red wine cook with lean meat

2) chicken drumstick ( recommended to use kampung female chicken ) steam with martell liquor. Just put the drumstick into a small container make of clay. Fill the martell till it just cover the whole drumstick. Steam till the drumstick is cooked. Drink the martell soup.
Note: Don't worry on you are not a good drinker. Alcohol substances are evaporated during cooking.

3) D.O.M every night before bedtime is recommended after menses are clear.D.O.M is a blood circulation health wine. So to prevent excessive of blood lose during menses, it is more advisable after menses .

4)After the 12th day ( menses should be clear by then ), need to buy fresh pig stomach .
Cleaning thoroughly is essentail to avoid any stink from the stomach. After cleaning, put the pig stomach into a bigger container for soup preparing. Use pepper ( those big ones ), and put into the cotainer and use water to boil tilled cooked.

5)Cook kampong chicken lean meat using chinese red wine.Add old ginger and 木耳( black chinese fungus ) into the dishes.
Note: Black chinese fungus is a very very good source of iron nourishment ( contain 97% iron out of all food !) . Surprisingly it is better than pig liver.

Due to different dialact group , there's many different ways of cooking confinement dishes . Above recommendations are just for your references only. Most important things are to take good care .Eat well and sleep well in order to nourish back the important nourishment loss.