Consider fruits that are useful and safe in breastfeeding:
- Apples. Contain a significant amount of fiber. Preference is given to green apples. If the fruit is raw - it is necessary to peel the skin.
- Peach. This is one of the most useful fruits that is recommended to a woman with breastfeeding. It is saturated with magnesium, it influences well the development of the brain of the newborn. A day will be enough 1-2 fetuses.
- Pear. She has a lot of potassium, vitamins A, B9, S. Peel the skin before use.
- Banana. A very useful fruit, because it contains a "hormone of joy", it makes up energy well. The advantage of a banana is that it is a high-calorie and at the same time low-fat fruit.
- Persimmon. This fruit has many vitamins and trace elements. Iron, which is contained in Persimmon, helps fight anemia. On the day of mum you can eat 1-2 fruits.
- Feijoa. Useful because it contains enough iodine. On the day of mum, it is recommended to eat no more than 200 g of ripe fruit and not earlier than three weeks after childbirth.
Using fruits in your diet, you should take into account the individual characteristics of your body and the organism of your child. Even the listed fruits are not suitable for all nursing mothers of newborns. For example, pomegranate and peach can cause allergies in the child. Bananas and persimmons have a fixing effect, but plum and peach, on the contrary, can irritate the intestinal mucosa of the baby and provoke diarrhea. It is also not necessary to abuse pears - crumbs may have colic.
What restrictions exist in the use of fruit?
In the first month of feeding you can eat apples, bananas, apricots, persimmons, cherries. In this period, more benefits for you and your baby will bring baked apples, pears, plums.
Some fruits are not recommended for a nursing mother in the first month after childbirth. Citrus is better to start 3-4 months after delivery, because they are considered highly allergenic. The pomegranate helps to fill the lack of iron, strengthens the immune system. But it can be used when the baby is already 1 month old, and it should start with 10 grains a day, increasing gradually to 100 g.
It is correct to eat raw fruit 1.5-2 hours after the main meal. The reason why you can not eat fruit on an empty stomach to a nursing woman is that the feeling of hunger is likely to remain and your mother will want to eat other food. Fruit juice will not only inhibit the process of digesting food, but it also makes it unsuitable for mastering the fermenting mass. This will lead to the accumulation of a large volume of gases in the intestine of the child and to the painful separation of them. For the same reason, you can not eat the main food with fruit.
- Any fruit you introduce into the diet gradually, checking it for allergenicity.
- Start with 200 g of fruit a day, increasing the rate gradually to 400 g.
- During the first month of feeding, give preference to baked fruit.
- In the first months, eat local fruits, to which you are accustomed. Exotic fruits and citrus fruits from 3-4 months after delivery.