All the pediatricians insist on the importance of healthy and adequate nutrition during breastfeeding. Compliance with the diet when breastfeeding a newborn makes mother's milk the most useful, nutritious and the best for your baby.
There are a number of products that are not recommended during lactation. Such products include:
- various allergens (citrus, honey, sweets, smoked);
- foods that hamper digestion (sweets, grapes);
- products that adversely affect the taste of milk (onion, asparagus, garlic).
A special diet during breastfeeding is necessary only in exceptional cases. For example, with dysbiosis, flatulence or congenital diseases in the child.
During pregnancy, many women, as a rule, gain weight and after giving birth tend to immediately say goodbye to the hated extra pounds. Compliance with any diet for weight loss when breastfeeding a newborn is highly discouraged. Restricting herself to certain groups of foods, the woman, thereby, makes the milk less nutritious for her child.
What to eat when breastfeeding?
This issue is the most common among young mothers. That the food during breastfeeding was useful and at the same time varied, one should adhere to simple rules:
- Eat lots of vegetables and fruits. In each season there is a choice of vegetables and fruits, which saturate the vitamins and mother and child. Fresh vegetables and fruits should be introduced into the diet gradually, following the child's reaction to them. Red vegetables and cabbage can cause flatulence in the baby.
- Daily use of dairy products. Milk, kefir, cottage cheese, fermented milk and yoghurt have a beneficial effect on the digestive system of the mother, increase lactation and saturate breast milk with calcium. Dairy products - the main component of the diet when breastfeeding a newborn.
- Meat and fish products should be consumed as needed. Also, the diet for breastfeeding should include cereals and bread.
- Drink plenty of fluids.
- Do not overeat.
If a woman adhered to the principle of healthy eating during pregnancy, the diet during breastfeeding will not be a burden to her.