Green Options » Postpartum recovery http://greenoptions.com/tag/postpartum-recovery Posts tagged 'Postpartum recovery' Thu, 22 May 2008 13:00:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Korean Seaweed Soup Recipe for Postpartum and Breastfeeding Moms http://ecochildsplay.com/2008/05/22/korean-seaweed-soup-recipe-for-postpartum-and-breastfeeding-moms/ http://ecochildsplay.com/2008/05/22/korean-seaweed-soup-recipe-for-postpartum-and-breastfeeding-moms/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 13:00:48 +0000 Susie Kim http://ecochildsplay.com/2008/05/22/korean-seaweed-soup-recipe-for-postpartum-and-breastfeeding-moms/ Seaweed Soup
Traditionally in Korea, after a woman gives birth; she eats this delicious and nutrious  seaweed soup for up to three months. It’s healing properties as well as help with breastmilk production is well touted in the old country . I am very Americanized since I grew up in the U.S. almost all my life, but I still brought a canteen full of the seaweed soup and rice to my birthing suite to have after the delivery. (All the nurses were curious and bemused.) I had that soup in the hospital as well as when I got home. My milk came in the night I got home from the hospital (which was the 2nd day) and I had overabundance of milk for months. It actually became a problem because I was shooting out like the old faithful. This stuff really works!!

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