The products that the lactating mother uses, of course, affect the composition of breast milk . All useful and harmful substances from food, in one form or another, and quantity, come into milk. For this reason, a certain diet for feeding a newborn is required in most cases.
Is there a need for a diet when feeding a baby?
Is a diet always necessary when breastfeeding? The answer to this question is ambiguous. The functionally immature digestive system of a newborn is very susceptible to various stimuli. It is worth the mother to eat some dish, for example, with cabbage, how bad feeling her baby is provided. But there is another category of newborns, whose tummies do not react at all to the one eaten by the mother. Such children are very few, and their mothers are truly lucky, because they have no idea about the terrible allergic reactions, the painful gazikah and other unpleasant conditions of the newborn.
Thus, the need for a diet for breastfeeding is determined by the individual characteristics of the baby's gastrointestinal tract. But, as practice shows, most often during feeding a newborn diet to adhere to all the same you need. Usually, the need to adjust the diet is maintained until the child is three months old.
Diet during feeding is useful not only for crumbs, but for the mother. Firstly, it is a good way to restore the body after childbirth and make up for it with those useful substances that were used during gestation. Secondly, some women manage to use a diet when feeding for weight loss. Indeed, the restrictions in the use of fatty, fried, sweet foods have a positive effect on the figure of the young mother, and even without much effort, the diet during feeding becomes an excellent means for losing weight, which is so often sought by a woman after childbirth.
Principles of a diet during feeding
There are a lot of recommendations regarding the diet when feeding. There are a number of products that are banned categorically from being used by a newly mum. So, during breastfeeding:
- exclude from your diet gas-producing food: cabbage, peas, beans, cucumbers, grapes, pears;
- Do not eat foods that are allergic: citrus fruits and tropical fruits, raspberries, strawberries, some seafood (mackerel, crayfish, crabs), chocolate, honey, eggs, peanuts;
- refrain from using onions and garlic;
- do not eat fresh bakery products, as well as sweet flour products, sweets, condensed milk;
- give up sharp and smoked, fatty and fried, semi-finished and canned food;
- do not eat sausages, mayonnaise, mushrooms;
- remember enough liquid (about 2 liters per day);
- at the time, give up strong tea and coffee.
Limited use of the following products is allowed:
- milk (not more than 200 ml per day);
- butter;
- potatoes;
- pasta;
- low-fat varieties of beef and pork;
- liver;
- not strong coffee;
- baked apples;
- bananas;
- brown raisins;
- halva;
- seeds.
In case of an allergic reaction or other disorders of the general condition of the baby, the above products are completely excluded from the diet.
Despite all the restrictions, the list of acceptable foods with a diet during feeding is quite wide. Without fear for the health of the child, a young mother can use:
- low-fat cottage cheese;
- other fermented milk products (up to 800 ml per day);
- mild cheeses;
- dried rye-wheat bread;
- any cereal cereal (in particular buckwheat, wheat, corn, rice, barley);
- vegetable soups without greens, soups on low-fat broth;
- rabbit and poultry meat;
- quail eggs;
- sea and river fish of low-fat varieties;
- vegetable oil of all kinds;
- biscuit biscuits, crackers, drying, straws;
- baby fruit purees;
- weak and unsweetened tea;
- compotes of dried and frozen fruits, fruit drinks.
The main principle of the diet when feeding a newborn baby is to observe the rules of healthy eating : it must be balanced and regular.