Pregnancy Guide #7 - Chinese Soup for Pregnancy

Update:

Yesterday, MIL cooked black beans soup. But this time round, she added some of the bigger types of red beans. Both are organic and the beans are boiled in a slow cooker. One good thing abt organic beans is that they turn soft quite fast and it’s really nice.. i know that some people dislike black beans cos of the texture of the soup. However, you can try to add red beans to it… HTH

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This section is not about Chinese Tonic Soup but rather types of Chinese soups which are good for pregnancy…

My MIL swears by Black beans soup… Ross’ legs are very strong and she attributed it to the loads of black bean soup that i drank when i was preggy… Well, according to her black beans soup is good for replishing of blood etc…

In fact, during confinement, she added black beans into my longan drink… even for babies, you can use the soup to cook porridge for the bb…

Pregnancy Guide #6 - Chinese Tonic Soup

My MIL swears by brewing Chinese Tonic Soup called ‘Ba Zhen’ which literally means Eight Treasures during my first 3 months of pregnancy with Ross. There are eight types of herbs and the chinese medical hall usual sells them in a packet. However, this time round as i was sick for most of my first trimester, yesterday’s brew was just the 2nd one that i had.

Ba Zhen is good for ladies with painful monthly menstrual cramps as well. With regards to pregnancy, it serves as a tonic for helping with the pregnancy. However, during first trimester, you will have to ask the medical hall uncle to lessen the dosage of 1 of the herbs inside the package. Tried to ask MIL what is that particular herb, she cant pronounced it in Chinese