Course on milk: the right diet for breastfeeding

Proper nutrition with breastfeeding is one of the components of success in developing babies. Breastfeeding can not be overemphasized: through the mother's milk, the baby receives not only all the necessary microelements for development, but also gets to know the surrounding world. Therefore, a properly organized diet is important when breastfeeding.

The Basics of the Diet

A woman who has just given birth somehow thinks that with the appearance of a baby, the ration of a nursing mother is a limited list of foods. This is partly true, but only partly. Immediately after childbirth, due to the physiological causes of the mother, a rather narrow list of products is recommended. But this is due not so much to the need of the baby, as to the physical condition of the mother after childbirth.

In the first week of life, a breastfed diet when breastfeeding a newborn is in fact a corrected Pyramid of a healthy diet. Newly mum is recommended to eat cereals, fruits and vegetables, as well as dairy and meat products.

We select products correctly

Most of the portion should be made by vegetable food. However, the choice of ingredients should be treated with extreme caution. So, it is necessary at the outset to abandon brightly colored fruits and vegetables, giving their preference to pale yellow and green. In addition, it is worthwhile to expose fruits and vegetables to heat treatment. So, in the first days after giving birth, the ration of the nursing mother should include baked apples, baked or boiled potatoes, cooked or cooked steamed carrots, baked green bulgarian pepper. Do not neglect spices, though only parsley and dill are allowed. As with vegetables, croups should also be treated with caution. Start with buckwheat and oatmeal, gradually introduce rice, millet, barley group. But the manki should be abandoned.

Separately it is necessary to note and consumption of bread. In a diet when breastfeeding a newborn, it is necessary, because Contains useful vitamins of group B. However, they should not be abused, especially white bread. Ideally, the daily rate of consumption of bread and bakery products is 300 grams.

A balanced diet with breastfeeding also includes a group of sour-milk and meat products. In the construction period, the main fermented milk products are low-fat cheese, natural yoghurts, low-fat cottage cheese. Meat subgroup allows only beef (best of all veal), chicken fillet and rabbit meat. Meat products are best cooked steamed or boiled. Also it is necessary to include in this group and the use of butter.

But from the use of sweets, smoked products, industrial and domestic canned food should be discarded. All of them contain, in varying degrees, preservatives, which are forbidden for use by a nursing mother.

The diet during breastfeeding strictly individually calculates the drinking regime. According to WHO recommendations, the doctor can limit the intake of fluids depending on the physical condition of the mother and climatic conditions. However, the volume of consumed liquid should not be less than 2 liters per day and include vegetable broths, juices, compotes, teas and clean water.

Introducing a new

Having established lactation, the nursing mother can gradually introduce additional products into her menu. Expand the list of diet ingredients when breastfeeding is not earlier than one month after the birth of the child. The first in the list of inputs should be vegetables and fruits, then cereals and sour-milk products of high fat content (cottage cheese, cheeses). It is important to monitor the reaction of the baby to a new product. To do this most easily with the help of the "Diary of Nutrition" - a kind of table in which the name of the product is entered and the child's reaction to it.

Proper organization of the diet during breastfeeding will allow the mother not only to provide her baby with all the necessary elements, but also gradually "introduce" the baby with a variety of foods, which will greatly facilitate the introduction of complementary foods.