A woman who is breastfeeding a child should carefully monitor what she uses for her own food, since the health of her baby largely depends on this. The reasons that you can eat when breastfeeding newborns are only certain foods, a few, namely:
- After pregnancy and childbirth, the woman's body must recover to fill the lack of those substances that were spent in the process of bearing and the birth of a son or daughter.
- Nutrition of the mother, in fact, is the basis for feeding her crumbs, because the mother's milk contains everything that her mother uses, although in a processed form.
- In breast milk, if the mother's food is not properly fed, antigens (those substances that cause allergic reactions) can be contained, which is the cause of most cases of allergy in nursery infants.
Breastfeeding - what can you eat?
If you have a baby, remember that you can eat anything that does not cause an allergy in the baby and at the same time is useful to you. The diet should be as varied as possible, include a large number of low-fat dairy products (milk, kefir, cheese, cottage cheese, yogurt), meat, fish, vegetable and animal fats, cereals, bran bread, hypoallergenic vegetables and fruits. Of the drinks you need to focus on tea, compotes, fruit drinks, non-carbonated mineral water. Sometimes it is allowed to drink soft coffee.
What foods can I forget about when feeding?
Having understood that you can eat while feeding, you should list what you need to exclude or limit as much as possible during breastfeeding.
- First, during this period you can not drink alcohol, smoke, since toxins are transmitted to a child with milk.
- Secondly, you can not eat exotic fruits and vegetables, as well as chocolate, mackerel, crabs and crayfish.
- Thirdly, you can not drink drinks that excite the nervous system, namely strong tea and coffee.
- Fourth, it is necessary to limit, and it is best to exclude from the diet those products that can cause allergies in the mother or child, namely:
- citrus;
- raspberries, strawberries and all other red berries, grapes;
- Nuts (especially peanuts);
- confectionery;
- eggs;
- honey;
- products with preservatives and dyes;
- smoked products and canned food;
- beans;
- fat and fatty meat.