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Confinement Recipes, Eat & Drink, Motherhood
Red Dates Tea (Postnatal)
Drink this everyday after delivery. Ingredients 8 dried red dates 8 dried black dates 10 goji berries 8 dried longans 1 dang shen (radix codonopsis), cut into 1-inch length 1 big piece of ginger (optional) Instructions Wash all ingredients. Cut the ginger in half and smash with the back of cleaver to release flavor. Prepare [...]
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Confinement Recipes, Eat & Drink, Motherhood
Red Dates Tea (Prenatal)
My girlfriend who is my ‘confinement consultant’ has been asking if I had started drinking red dates tea. Not yet! Though I did read somewhere that the perfect time to start drinking Red Dates Tea 2-3 times/week is at around 34 weeks of pregnancy. So I’ve still time! (Or just being lazy?) Red Dates tea [...]
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Confinement Recipes, Eat & Drink, Motherhood
List of ‘Cold’ Food
Meat Duck egg (slightly cold in nature) Shellfish including crabs, clams and oysters Snails (very cold in nature) Cuttlefish and octopus Vegetables Spinach Cucumber Eggplant Tomatoes Brocolli Cabbage Celery Pickles Kangkung Edible fungus Bitter gourd Bamboo shoot Snake melon Kelp, laver and seaweed Some mushrooms Lentils Fruits Apple Pineapple Pear Persimmon, including dried persimmon Pomelo [...]
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Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation
Interesting read! I wonder how many women suffers from postpartum pelvic floor symptoms. No one ever mentioned these things. But I ain’t taking any chances! Apparently in France, it’s the standard of care for every new mom (entitled by the national health system) to receive pelvic floor physical theraphy (10-20 sessions) after she delivers a [...]
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Our Unforgetable Kilimanjaro Trip
These entries (tagged with category: Kilimanjaro) are about our entire Kilimanjaro trip which includes the pre-climb acclimatization at Ngorongoro Crater and post-climb retreat at Zanzibar. The stages indicated depict the actual climbing days. We decided on the 7-days climb at the very last minute and it was the best decision made for us!
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