Miracle Pudding for New and Expecting Parents

Are you expecting to add a little one to the family soon? Or maybe they’re already here and you have realized the newborn isn’t the only one that needs taking care of. In either event, you’re reading this because you’re at wits end and want a solution to help ease the tension at home while every adapts to the new life.

What’s happening internally?

Both pregnancy and newborns can really shift the dynamics of a marriage. You’re going from a tag team duo to a 3 or more unit family. The mother is going through a bunch of changes herself, phyiscally, chemically, and mentally. And you as the father or partner are also going through mental changes (and even physically if you’ve started neglecting yourself due to the chaos). Tensions will be higher than what you’re used to and it’s really about keeping everyone comfortable and healthy so that tensions don’t boil over.

Being HANGRY is kinda like self-immolation…

Let’s focus on the mother first. Like basically every other woman on the planet, I’m betting that the mother has been hangry (hungry angry) before. Being pregnant or having just given birth doesn’t make her immune to that feeling. In fact, it’s possible that she’ll feel it even more because the nausea is preventing her from eating what she wants or eating sufficiently in general. That’s not a great situaiton to be in as mom will need all of the nourishment she can get as she either grows a baby, recovers from child birth, or nutures a newborn.

Recovering from Child Birth (Trauma)

You often hear about the miracle of child birth being this magical moment but never enough about all of the complications even when things go well. Birthing a child is essentially a traumatic event happening to the mother’s body. She just grew this tiny little human instead of her and then had to eject it from her body either through a hole that needed to grow 10x from its normal size or have new hole created by cutting through 7 layers of tissue; Yes, that’s SEVEN layers of tissue.

Child birth is a traumatic experience for the mother and it’s important to understand this so that you understand how important it is that the mother gets proper nutrition to recover fully from the event. The longer it takes mom to recover fully, the more stressful the situation will become and the more chances there’ll be that someone gets overly frustrated and snaps at the other person. Tensions will slowly continue to rise unless you can get every back to peak physical and mental well-being.

A slower recovery leads to a faster mental health decline

As you’ve probably experienced yourself, people in pain are usually also in foul moods. It’s not their fault, I’d be upset too if I was always nauseous, in pain whenver I move or get light headed whenever I stand up. Child birth takes a heavy toll on the body. Aside from the blood loss and the hormones, it’s highly possible that there’ll be tears or cuts that needed stitches.

The longer it takes for mom to heal up, the longer she’ll have discomfort and the higher the chances that she gets frustrated with everything around her (and maybe also at herself for taking so long to recover). That combined with caring for a newborn will surely send her mental state into a downward spiral if left unchecked. Post-partum depression is real and a serious thing. As her partner, you need to stay alert and do everything you can to help her recover, care for the newborn, and also keep yourself health. It’s not easy, but it’ll be well worth it.

How to Speed Up Mom’s Recovery

Giving mom nutritient dense foods is the best way to promote recovery. Sometimes that doesn’t always work if she’s nausea and can’t eat enough. The best thing you can do is to first address the nausea before trying to have her eat up. A tranditional Cantonese dish that has helped women across several centuries with nausea is Ginger Milk Pudding (also known as Ginger Curd). You won’t really find it in the market (at least not good ones) because it’s a delicate dish that can’t really be commericalized effectively due to how it’s made and the chemical composition of the dish which helps it go from a liquid to a silky jello-like texture.

What’s in this pudding?

Just like how it sounds, Ginger Milk Pudding has two core components Ginger and Milk. You can add sugar into it to help ease the spiciness from the ginger, but it’s totally optional. Many people add sugar and treat this pudding as a healthy dessert item without any of the guilt. The combination of spicy and sweet flavor in a creamy and silky texture tends to be very satisfying.

Health Benefits

Benefits of Ginger

• Anti-inflammatory
• Reduced Nausea
• Improved digestion
• Inhibits bacterial growth

Benefits of Milk

• Great source of protein for building and repairing tissue
• Rich in calcium and phosphorus
• Can help reduce inflammation
• Promotes the body’s production of serotonin and melatonin for better sleep

Basically put, having Ginger Milk Pudding will help reduce inflammation, improve digestion, reduce nausea, promote better sleep, repair damaged tissue, and boosts immunity. It’s an ideal dish to serve to new and expecting mothers to help them with recovery and keep them comfortable. After all, a happy wife means a happy life.

How does it turn from a liquid to a pudding?

Ginger contains something called Zingigain which is a protease enzyme that helps to coagulate milk. This process only works when the pasteurized milk is warmed up to 158°F (70°C) and added to the squeezed ginger juice. Avoid using ultra-pasteurized milk for this since the heating process for ultra-pasteurized milk alters the proteins which prevents it from forming the necessary curds to become solid.

Check out our Ginger Milk Pudding recipe for the extact instructions, but the bullet points to it are:

• Measure 12ml of ginger juice to 100ml of pastuerized milk
• Heat the milk to 158°F (70°C) and quickly add to ginger juice
• Let sit for 10 minutes or until the milk is fully curdled