In addition, many expectant mothers during pregnancy in later periods drink tea from raspberry leaves. Due to this decoction, births often pass very easily, without incisions and ruptures. In this article, we will tell you whether pregnant women can have fresh raspberries, and how to properly prepare healthy tea from her leaves.
What is the use of raspberry for pregnant women?
In the period of waiting for a child, women not only can eat fresh raspberries, but they also need to. Meanwhile, in the day the expectant mother is recommended to eat no more than half a cup of this berry. Fresh raspberries have the following useful properties for pregnant women:
- helps the work of the gastrointestinal tract;
- normalizes the level of hormones and metabolism;
- charges the body with vivacity and confidence, gives strength;
- has antipyretic and bactericidal action;
- enriches the body with a supply of essential vitamins and minerals.
Contraindications to raspberry consumption during pregnancy
Fresh raspberries, as well as jam from these berries, you can not eat pregnant women who suffer from allergies, as well as diseases such as:
- gastritis;
- hepatitis;
- stomach ulcer;
- urolithiasis disease.
How to brew raspberry leaves during pregnancy?
Raspberry leaves are also unusually useful in pregnancy, but you can drink decoction from them only before giving birth. Until the 37th week, a decoction from the leaves of this shrub is strictly forbidden.
Warm tea made from raspberry leaves contributes to the preparation of the future mother's organism for an early delivery. In the case of consuming such a drink before the 37th week of pregnancy, a woman may experience miscarriage or premature birth.
Meanwhile, in recent weeks, the benefits of this decoction is simply irreplaceable. Raspberry leaves make the cervix soft, thereby helping her to open, and speed up the birth process. The birth of women, who at a later date constantly drank such tea, pass as quickly, easily and painlessly as possible.
To make this drink, it is necessary to crush raspberry leaves and pour them with boiling water at the rate of 1 glass per 1 teaspoon of leaves. The resulting broth cool and drain. Every day, a future mother can drink from 1 to 3 cups of this tea.