A woman who takes a responsible approach to bearing a child gets used to a healthy diet and lifestyle during pregnancy. Even if she did not focus her attention on these processes before, now they are becoming extremely important. However, a woman’s diet during pregnancy and her diet during breastfeeding are two big differences. Her diet is especially different in the first months of feeding.It is important to adhere to a certain diet and maintain a drinking regime in order to stimulate lactation, supply the body of the newborn, and then the baby, with nutrients and vitamins, and protect him from allergies. You need to eat right from the very first day after giving birth.

Even after childbirth, the child and his nursing mother remain, in a sense, a single whole, with a “single” digestive system. This means that a woman’s eating habits primarily affect the child’s health and development.

Diet for the first postpartum week

In the first three days after birth, it is recommended not to overdo it with food, focusing on drinking. The body needs to replenish the loss of fluid after labor and stock up on it to produce milk. Pure non-carbonated mineral water is very good as a moisture supplier. You can drink weak sweet tea, dried fruit compote and liquid fermented milk products. Breakfast for a nursing mother can easily replace a glass of drinking fermented milk product.

• On days 4-7, porridge is introduced into a woman’s diet. The emphasis should be on buckwheat and oatmeal; you can also eat millet and wheat. They are prepared in water without salt or with a minimum amount of it.
• You should not eat potatoes in the first days because of the abundance of starch in them, and in the first month you should not eat cabbage (this applies to the white cabbage variety). Cabbage causes excessive gas formation in a newborn and, as a result, pain along the intestines.
• You can eat boiled or steamed vegetables in small quantities; you are allowed to eat 1 chicken egg every three days.
• It is useful to include liquid soups with vegetable broths in your diet.

It is very useful if a nursing mother drinks a glass of fermented milk drink product for the first breakfast. And for lunch, a woman can eat cottage cheese or porridge with boiled vegetables. It would be nice to end the day with a glass of kefir for dinner.

You need to carefully introduce new foods into your diet after pregnancy, following the “1 product - 1 day” principle. This approach will help avoid allergic reactions, excessive gas formation, and stress in the child.

Diet for the second week

Each new product must be introduced separately, that is, 1 product – 1 day, and carefully monitor the reaction of the newborn’s body (for rashes, stool problems, gas formation).

• By the end of the first to the beginning of the second week after birth, you can include boiled fish in your diet.
• After a week, you can try rabbit meat or lean veal, as well as white chicken meat.
• Do not forget that three liters of fluid per day is now the norm for a nursing woman.
• You can include bread in your diet in small quantities, preferably bran and dried.
• For dessert, you can treat yourself to a baked apple or homemade marmalade.
• You need to eat cottage cheese. The fermented milk drink remains unchanged for breakfast and dinner.

Diet for the first month

By the end of the first month after giving birth, you can try introducing fresh cucumber, fresh leafy vegetables, and herbs into your diet. You can try a fresh apple; some experts are not against green pears and plums if the time corresponds to the ripening of these fruits (we recommend reading:). Don't forget about yogurt for breakfast and kefir for dinner.

Fermented milk products, rich in protein, are indispensable in the diet of a nursing mother.

Diet for the second month

By the end of the second month, you can slowly add beetroot, cabbage soup, freshly squeezed juices and fruit drinks, and fresh vegetables to your diet. Everyone also introduces one product per day. You should still eat cottage cheese and drink fermented milk products for breakfast and dinner (or before bed). Some mothers “suffer from the desire” to walk to the refrigerator at night. To avoid this, you can keep a glass of kefir and drink it before feeding your baby at night.

Until the end of feeding, you should under no circumstances include alcohol, carbonated and tonic drinks, or foods containing flavor enhancers, dyes, or preservatives in your diet. There is no need to eat fast foods of all kinds, chips and crackers with various flavors and flavoring additives, smoked meats, and spicy spices.

Such food substitutes are harmful to the human body at any time, both during the period of growth and development, and during the period of maturity. But they are especially harmful to the baby’s fragile body.

Weekly menu for mom

When the child is very small, the mother has a lot of worries, there is no time to think through a menu for herself, and sometimes even cook food. The age of 0-3 months is a period of adaptation to new conditions not only for the newborn, but also for his mother. To help herself and not have to think about how to boost her body for breakfast or pamper her for dinner, a woman can familiarize herself with the menu options for the week.

An approximate weekly menu for a nursing mother is provided as a guide only. Mothers themselves are unlikely to create their own menu for the long term. But in order to know which products you need to focus on when making purchases and how best to distribute them, you can use the table:

Day of the week	Breakfast	Dinner	Afternoon snack	Dinner
Monday	buckwheat porridge; vegetable stew; kefir; cottage cheese.	vegetable broth soup; stewed fish; boiled potatoes; sweet tea; cracker.	baked apple; biscuits; dried fruits compote.	pasta; boiled veal; rosehip decoction; dried fruit mixture.
Tuesday	boiled egg; bran bread; a piece of butter; broccoli (stewed); tea with sugar; several bagels (sushi).	fish soup; wheat porridge; white meat chicken; fermented baked milk; banana.	kefir; baked apple; biscuits.	leafy vegetable salad; baked potato; steamed cheesecake; Ryazhenka
Wednesday	millet porridge; boiled vegetables; dried fruits.	vegetable broth soup; boiled veal; durum pasta; baked vegetables; kefir.	baked apple; cottage cheese; Ryazhenka	boiled egg; a piece of bread with butter; rosehip decoction; drying.
Thursday	rice milk porridge; dried fruit mixture.	beetroot soup (minimum cabbage); corn porridge; steamed vegetables; fermented baked milk; a few crackers.	kefir; apple; slice of bread.	boiled pasta; white poultry meat; boiled vegetables; a glass of milk; slice of bread.
Friday	cottage cheese pancakes baked in the oven; apple.	chicken soup; boiled potatoes; steamed vegetables; rosehip decoction; biscuits.	vegetable casserole; kefir.	boiled egg; bran bread; oil; dried fruits; Ryazhenka
Saturday	cottage cheese casserole; fermented baked milk; banana.	rice soup with water; durum pasta; baked fish; leafy vegetable salad;	crackers; fermented baked milk; baked apple.	baked beef; boiled vegetables; kefir; drying.
Sunday	oatmeal; vegetable stew; sweet tea; cracker.	buckwheat lean soup; baked potato; white poultry meat; a piece of fresh cucumber; dried fruits compote.	baked apple; bagels; Ryazhenka	pasta; steamed fish; vegetable stew; biscuits; kefir.

We prepare delicious dishes

Delicious food does not have to be fatty or fried. For example, in a double boiler you can prepare complex healthy dishes without the use of fat and sauces

It seems that breastfeeding women have nothing to eat, and what they can eat is tasteless. But it is not so. You can prepare even the minimum amount of permitted products in different ways:

• boil;
• stew;
• bake in the oven;
• in a steamer;
• in a slow cooker;
• in a frying pan over very low heat without oil (for example, this is how you can make cheesecakes without eggs).

It is very convenient and comfortable to prepare dishes in a slow cooker. The dishes turn out rich and tasty, and the documentation that comes with it is replete with different recipes for dishes that can be prepared. This device allows you to cook soups, borscht, make casseroles, omelettes, stewed vegetables and much more.

To maintain the baby’s health, a nursing mother has to be very attentive not only to the state of his body, but also to her own. We are what we eat. You may not agree with this statement. But while breastfeeding continues, you need to accept it as truth and choose food products very carefully (we recommend reading:).

You should not eat chips and crackers for dinner while sitting in front of the TV screen. Even if the baby has fallen asleep and allows you to do it, and you are used to spending your evenings this way. Many women, while maintaining their figure, deny themselves a full breakfast and dinner. This should not be done during feeding. A full breakfast is a boost of energy for the whole day for you and your child.

Greetings, dear blog readers! It is known that doctors strictly prohibit switching to a strict diet for weight loss immediately after childbirth. Then all that remains is to choose the right diet while breastfeeding and get your body in shape.

The expression “a nursing mother must eat for two” is somewhat incorrect. Yes, food needs to be more carefully selected, but not too high in calories. And is the nutrition of a baby comparable to the nutrition of an adult?

The menu may be quite similar to what it was during the period of bearing a child.

The optimal daily calorie intake for a woman is 2000-2500 kcal per day. This is on average. And for a nursing mother, an increase of 500-700 kcal is necessary. It follows from this that what matters is not how much a nursing mother eats, but what she eats.

What can you eat

After giving birth, starting to eat right becomes even more important. These are healthy and conscious food choices. There is a huge advantage in following such a “diet”. During breastfeeding, you will teach yourself and the whole family to always eat right.

In the first month, you need to select products especially carefully. They must be free of “chemistry”, pesticides, nitrates and other “advances of science”.

There is such a simple sign of what you can and cannot eat from foods:

Products	Can	Prohibited/allowed in small doses
Vegetables	Heat-treated - stewed, boiled, baked. Freshly squeezed juices after 1 month, fresh after 3 months. Carrots, cauliflower, potatoes, zucchini, eggplant, zucchini. Vegetable broths	Fresh, fried, overseas vegetables. Garlic, onion, white cabbage, tomatoes, cucumbers, radish, radish
Fruits	Bananas, apples and pears, baked without skin, peaches, plums. Freshly squeezed juices after 1 month	Exotic fruits, any berries (especially raspberries, strawberries), grapes, citrus fruits, mango, papaya
Meat	Eat without combining it with anything. No side dish. Low-fat varieties - turkey, rabbit, beef, lean pork, skinless chicken.	Smoked, fried, dried, fatty broths
Fish	Sea, river. Low-fat. Cooking: steam, boil, stew, bake	Red fish, shrimp, crayfish, caviar. Sun-dried, smoked, salted fish
Cereals	Any, especially: buckwheat, rice, oatmeal. Cook: with milk, water	Semolina, instant porridge.
Dairy products	Milk, kefir, fermented baked milk, yogurt, cottage cheese. Everything is not too greasy	Fatty or low-fat products, sour cream in large quantities
Pasta	Better from corn, buckwheat or rice flour	With cheese and lots of butter
Eggs	Boiled quail, chicken 1 pc. in a day
Bread	Yesterday's rye-wheat with bran in small quantities, dry cracker	Fresh, hot
Fats	Cold pressed vegetable oils, butter	Refractory fats
Sweet	Cookies, marmalade, marshmallows, marshmallows, dried fruits, biscuits. After 1 month - jam	Honey, chocolate, large quantities of confectionery fat (creams, whipped cream)
Beverages	Dried fruit compote, herbal teas (with mint, thyme, oregano), green tea, still mineral water	Black tea, coffee, soda, packaged juices, berry and fruit juice

Based on the table, after the first month you can slowly add prohibited foods. Observe the child's reaction. Add lean borscht and low-fat sour cream to your diet. Slowly add nuts other than peanuts. Carefully monitor the newborn's reaction: for colic, rashes and other negative symptoms. To understand which product may cause a negative reaction, you need to introduce them one at a time and gradually.

You can start eating some forbidden food once every two days and watch the baby’s reaction. Although this is all individual. Some people start eating strawberries or coffee a little from the first days. But again, I repeat, in small quantities.

All the following foods should be excluded from the first days of pregnancy. Maybe I’ll repeat myself somewhere, but it’s strictly forbidden:

• Alcohol
• Chocolate
• Semi-finished products
• Sausages, ham, sausage
• Spicy, fried, salted, pickled, canned
• Fatty fish, meat, lard
• Sulguni cheese
• Legumes
• Sauerkraut
• Peanut
• Products with flavoring additives, dyes, preservatives
• Hot, hot spices and seasonings
• Large amounts of salt and sugar
• Unnatural sauces, mayonnaise, ketchup

Safe weight loss while breastfeeding

Most women are overweight at the end of pregnancy. These kilograms will be gradually used up during the month of breastfeeding. And to get your figure in order, it’s good to create a daily routine. It's a little difficult with a baby. You need to at least adjust your food intake. Proper nutrition for a mother is:

1. Fractionality. Eat 5-6 times a day, in small portions (200-300 g): breakfast, snack, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner, second dinner.
2. The menu should be: nutritious, varied and with plenty of water.
3. No crash diets, drinks or diet pills!
4. Add more fresh produce when in season. They taste better, contain more vitamins and are less susceptible to oxidation or damage during long-term storage.

Training for breastfeeding

It has been proven that during lactation, the metabolic process of the mother's body becomes higher. But nutrition alone is not enough to lose weight. Gradually begin physical exercise.

Start training only after consulting a doctor. Choose a more convenient option for yourself:

1. Aerobic and cardio exercises (swimming, fitball, long walks)
2. Home exercise equipment. I plan to write a comparison of their effectiveness in a separate article.

Doctors allow any sports while breastfeeding (restrictions in individual cases). Avoid sports that can injure your chest. So take up boxing, wrestling and karate later. Active workouts will require you to wear a special form - a bra that will support your breasts.

Remember: during lactation you should not lose weight quickly. This is extremely harmful for a nursing mother. When playing sports, drink more water. Train 2-3 times a week, be more outdoors.

Komarovsky's diet

Evgeniy Olegovich Komarovsky is a pediatric doctor, a doctor of the highest category, and runs the “School of Doctor Komarovsky.” A doctor with extensive experience in pediatrics, maternal and child health, author of many books and articles on medicine and health.

What does Komarovsky say about nutrition during breastfeeding:

The daily menu should consist of the following basic elements. They should be consumed even if the young mother does not want to increase her weight. On his website I found an approximate diet for a mother about breastfeeding:

If you are prone to obesity, then reduce your consumption of bread and fatty meats. Strictly limit, or better yet eliminate, high-calorie foods. Such as pies, pies, cakes and other confectionery sweets. But don't cut back on dairy products, vegetables and meat.

Watch the video where Komarovsky discusses the topic of breastfeeding in detail:

Every young mother, without exception, wants her baby to grow up healthy and happy. That is why it was and remains one of the most pressing questions for any young mother, what her diet should be like while breastfeeding.

It is no secret that a mother’s nutrition during breastfeeding is one of the factors on which the child’s well-being depends. It is especially important to remember this in the first month after childbirth. At this time, it is quite difficult for a nursing mother to eat properly, because she suddenly has a fairly large amount of work, to which she has not yet had time to adapt. The physiological state of the mother after childbirth also makes itself felt.

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All these factors often disrupt the diet of a nursing mother, and thus do not allow her to eat properly and balanced.

Why is this so important

The health of the mother, as well as the well-being of her child, depends on proper nutrition during breastfeeding.

In the first 3-4 months of his life, every child requires special attention and care, because his body adapts to environmental conditions. At this time, many mothers try to take a responsible approach to the issue of their own nutrition in order to help the child avoid such troubles as, for example, intestinal colic, food allergies, constipation, diarrhea, etc.

The first month after childbirth is a rather difficult period for a woman, associated with her well-being. Many people face such an unpleasant phenomenon as constipation.

Most often, they are associated with the fact that the intestines, which were previously strongly displaced by the grown uterus, fall into place. This occurs against the background of weakened muscles after pregnancy and childbirth, which causes constipation. Usually everything recovers on its own in the first month or two after birth.

Rules for proper nutrition during breastfeeding

Proper nutrition helps to significantly alleviate the condition of a nursing mother.

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1. In the first months after childbirth, a nursing mother's menu should contain boiled or baked vegetables and fruits as much as possible.
2. If you have a problem with constipation, you should avoid eating fresh bread and other baked goods.
3. In the diet of a nursing mother, it is necessary to include first courses: vegetable soups, soups with a second broth.
4. Drinking regimen is extremely important for a nursing mother. This is the main way to combat constipation. Also, fluid deficiency can negatively affect the amount of breast milk.
5. For good health and quick recovery after childbirth, a young mother’s menu should contain foods rich in B vitamins and animal proteins: chicken fillet, turkey, beef, cereals.
6. To ease the load on the intestines, the mother’s diet should be divided into 5-6 meals a day, in small portions.

The child’s well-being directly depends on the mother’s nutrition during breastfeeding.

It is especially important to eat properly in the first 3-4 months of a baby’s life.

What to pay attention to

Sometimes even the most harmless food at first glance can cause certain problems in an infant.

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Never forget that every child is individual. It is simply impossible to ignore individual intolerance to certain products!

So, what popular healthy foods might have a completely unexpected reaction to you?

The baby’s body is very sensitive to allergenic foods; an allergy can appear just from eating one cherry.

What sweets can mom eat?

At first, sweets in a nursing mother’s diet can cause many problems for the baby. However, there are foods that are usually well tolerated by the baby and allow you to diversify the mother's menu. This:

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• biscuits;
• white marshmallows;
• Turkish delight, pastila;
• condensed milk without palm fat;
• marmalade without dyes;
• curd cheeses without dyes or flavoring additives.

What is healthy for mother and baby to eat?

While breastfeeding, the mother should include foods rich in vitamins and minerals in her diet.

Although at first it is quite difficult to do this due to restrictions, but as the baby grows, the mother’s menu must be gradually expanded and enriched with all sorts of benefits. Try to eat only seasonal fruits and vegetables that grow in your region of residence:

• greens (dill, parsley, green onions);
• fruits, vegetables: beets, carrots, onions, potatoes, stewed cabbage (not earlier than 6 months after birth);
• porridge: buckwheat, rice, oatmeal, millet, wheat, barley, etc.;
• white meat: chicken breast, turkey, beef, poultry liver;
• dairy products: milk, cottage cheese, low-fat kefir, yoghurts without fillers;
• egg whites (at first after birth from no more than two eggs). Over time, you can include completely boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, etc. in your diet.

What a mother should not eat during breastfeeding

Alas, during breastfeeding, a woman’s diet should completely exclude or significantly limit the following foods:

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1. alcohol;
2. chocolate;
3. citrus;
4. mayonnaise, ketchup;
5. carbonated drinks;
6. coffee;
7. strong tea.

We have tried to outline in as much detail as possible the basic principles by which a nursing mother’s diet should be formulated. It is also worth noting that everything related to mother’s nutrition is quite individual, and what suits one particular mother-baby pair may not suit another. The main goal of a mother's nutrition during breastfeeding is the well-being of her and her baby.

Try to expand your menu as much as possible, because you should feel good not only physically, but also mentally. All kinds of food restrictions have a detrimental effect on a woman’s well-being. You should not limit your diet to water and lean soups. Remember that a child needs a healthy and happy mother!

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Nutrition for a nursing woman - basic principles

Contrary to the belief of most young mothers and the recommendations of some doctors, breastfeeding does not require a strict diet on the part of the nursing mother. The diet of a nursing mother should be as close as possible to the diet of a healthy person leading a healthy lifestyle. Moreover, a strict diet can harm the health of a nursing woman. There are only a few food groups whose consumption is recommended to be reduced or completely eliminated during breastfeeding.
In order for the breastfeeding process to be smooth and enjoyable for both mother and baby, several principles should be adhered to, according to which it is necessary to organize proper nutrition for a woman:

You should eat often - always 3 times and an additional 2-3 snacks. It is important not to convey this, since overeating affects not only the condition of the figure, but also the health of the baby;

It is best to cook food in a double boiler or boil or bake. This way the vitamins are preserved and the food will be truly healthy;

The basis of proper nutrition is cereals, vegetables, and fruits. You should consume fermented milk products every day, among which it is better to give preference to kefirs, sour cream, plain yoghurts, and cottage cheese;

When including vegetables and fruits in your diet, give preference to those that grow in your region. They are more familiar to the body and significantly reduce the possibility of allergic reactions. Vegetables and fruits are sources of carbohydrates and contain fiber, which is so necessary for the normal functioning of the gastrointestinal tract and helps remove toxins and harmful substances from the body;

A nursing woman's diet should also include vegetable oils - they can be used to season vegetable salads;

A woman's diet during breastfeeding should be complete, balanced and varied. If there is no opportunity for adequate daily nutrition, then it is necessary, after consulting a doctor, to supplement the diet with vitamin preparations;

The percentage of the three main nutritional components during breastfeeding should be as follows:
Carbohydrates, and these should be basically complete sugars, which fruits and cereals supply the body with, should account for 50-55% of the total daily diet;
30% of all calories consumed should come from complete fats;
In breastfeeding nutrition, 15-20% is allocated to proteins.
Calcium– one of the main elements in nutrition during breastfeeding, necessary for complete, nutritious breast milk. At the same time, even if you don’t like cow’s milk, you can get the required amount of calcium from salmon, legumes, broccoli, cabbage, raisins, herbs, carrot juice and others. Perhaps your body tolerates fermented milk products well - an essential product in the breastfeeding diet and an excellent source of calcium.
Iron necessary for the formation of hemoglobin, which in turn helps to saturate all organs and tissues of the body with oxygen. Everyone knows the main source of iron - various varieties and types of meat. To improve the absorption of iron, along with meat, it is recommended to include foods rich in vitamin C in your breastfeeding diet - vegetable juices, herbs (especially parsley). It was to preserve the hemoglobin necessary for breastfeeding that nature made sure that the nursing mother did not have menstruation.
- You need to be careful about the choice of foods you eat. They must be fresh, grown without nitrates and other substances harmful to the body of the mother and child. Harmful substances that enter the mother's body with food during breastfeeding with milk enter the child's body, leading to the most unforeseen consequences;

Be sure to follow the correct drinking regime. Water not only removes harmful substances from the body, but also promotes normal lactation. It is recommended to drink at least 2 liters of fluid per day. It is better to avoid carbonated water. Dried fruit compote, various teas, and fruit drinks are perfect for nursing mothers.

Everything seems simple and clear, but not everything has settled into place in your head yet, you want specifics and explanations in order to turn off this very head yourself, and adequately fend off the attacks of mothers and mothers-in-law, screaming every time you bring a piece of something to your mouth , which in their opinion is hopelessly harmful. Here I found some interesting information. Written with humor, quite believable and logical. I think it will appeal to many mothers who are intimidated by the stereotypes of our grandmothers from the Soviet and pre-revolutionary past. So, let's destroy them (stereotypes, of course)!

“The most common myth about nutrition for a nursing mother is the need for a strict diet. The child does not have any problems yet, but there are already limitations. This is not to say that these diets do not lead to tangible results - they certainly can. A nursing mother spends an additional 500 kcal per day. But in addition to feeding the child, she also needs to look good, be healthy, perform household chores, and even earn extra money. Nutrition must be complete and varied, otherwise the body will become depleted. The myth of a strict diet very slowly, creakingly, clinging to instructions in clinics and the behests of mothers-in-law, is becoming a thing of the past. Wave after him!

-Good cabbage will not spoil milk

Thanks to modern science, we have learned that milk is not stored in the breast, does not turn sour, and does not disappear of its own free will. And now we know how it turns out. The hormone prolactin is responsible for the quantity, and the hormone oxytocin helps the release of milk. Breast milk is synthesized from blood and lymph. To spoil it with food, you need to eat:

A) Only chemistry. Unfortunately, chemical additives (preservatives, dyes) end up in milk unchanged. And they can cause an allergic reaction in a child. If a nursing mother often snacks on chips and cola, colic and diathesis REALLY will occur, thanks to her diet.

B) Nothing. But even in this case, breast milk will remain a complete food for the baby. All the juices will simply be sucked out of you, as people say, breast milk will colorfully and fully consist of all the body’s resources.

- “Don’t eat cabbage, cucumbers, bread...”

Why does white cabbage make you “puffy”? It contains a lot of fiber. Fiber is not absorbed by the body; it passes through like a cruel brush. The intestines experience excitement. The same reaction happens to rye bread. Fiber is not digested and is released - how can it affect breast milk? - no way. All the myths about the dangers of cabbage, cucumbers and bread came to us from the distant past, when no one had any idea about the composition of breast milk or the reasons for its production, so we will continue to listen to the story about harmful cabbage, passed down from generation to generation, for a very long time . If a nursing mother suddenly becomes interested in a raw food diet, perhaps the predominance of raw vegetables will cause flatulence in both. The danger from vegetables that have undergone heat treatment is minimal, as is the danger from baked fruits.

However, some mothers notice that their child has a stomach ache after eating “fatty” foods. If you put aside excessive suspiciousness and coincidences, this happens.
The fact is that we often do not notice which foods cause discomfort in our body. We simply do not pay attention to short-term flatulence, heartburn, constipation and other symptoms of intolerance. If a nursing mother herself cannot tolerate cabbage, apples or legumes, if these foods cause turmoil in her stomach, most likely the baby will also have a reaction to them, since these problems directly affect the composition of the blood.

Largely thanks to the Soviet past, our consciousness is structured in such a way that we perceive any “special” situation as a system of restrictions, rather than self-knowledge. Are you pregnant? - first thoughts about what is impossible. Have you given birth and are breastfeeding? – again we think about “impossible”.

You need to try very hard to harm your child by eating a varied and high-quality diet. If you think of feeding as food restrictions, you will inevitably be drawn to chips and chocolate. Out of a feeling of protest. And many local doctors “put” nursing mothers on a diet for a reason that has been discussed many times - for easy control. Are you on kefir and buckwheat? - wonderful. We leave you aside. Well, actually, I also eat fish, whispers the tired mother. Yeah! - says the doctor, it’s all about the fish! In this case, the doctor will “treat” with stereotypes, not with wise advice, and a modern mother who knows the Internet and some logic should not panic. Children of the first year of life have the right to diathesis, skin rashes, and dry skin. And these problems are very rarely associated with the mother’s diet - in the event that there is no obvious abuse on her part of products from the “risk group”. And fish is not a risk. This is useful.

What should you eat to make your milk more nutritious?

1. The period of feeding a child is a natural process. Not a disease, not a special stressful condition that threatens life. No special diet is required. Not a single living creature on the planet changes its diet after the birth of a baby. Eat normally. Like pregnancy, breastfeeding is a great opportunity for the whole family to switch to a healthy diet. A child may have an allergic reaction not to a single product, but to some dish with complex gravy or other additives (broth cubes, surrogates from bags). You can eat simpler, but more varied and healthier.

2. During pregnancy, the child “took” useful substances for its development from the mother’s body - and during feeding, it will use maternal resources. A nursing mother should not be hungry. Her health depends on her nutrition - and not only at the moment, but also the state of her immunity in six months, a year and beyond.

3. Breast milk is not bad or “poor”. In countries with a low standard of living, scientific research into the nutrition of children under one year old and nursing mothers has been conducted more than once, and the results have been made public. The breast milk of a woman who is undernourished remains complete in composition, providing the baby with all the necessary substances. What can we say about the composition of the milk of our non-starving compatriots.

And yet there is a “risk group”

So, during the “breastfeeding” period you can eat everything that is considered healthy food. And now it’s time to remember about an individual approach. All people are different, each body is individual. Everyone has their own rhythm, including the rhythm of assimilation of certain products, everyone has their own benefits and harm. There are categories of foods whose consumption in excessive doses can cause a reaction in a child. There is an opinion that if a nursing mother takes them in microdoses, nothing bad will happen, the effect on the composition of the blood will be minimal. Introducing allergens through breast milk in small quantities will prevent the occurrence of allergies in the future. With the help of breast milk, the baby better adapts to these products. But the consequences of overeating can be unpleasant. Especially if the parents are prone to allergies, and this tendency will be passed on to the child.

What products should you pay attention to:

1. A person’s relationship with cow’s milk gradually deteriorates. A hundred years ago he tolerated it tolerably, but now it’s getting worse and worse. When cow protein enters the bloodstream, it often causes an allergic reaction. In fermented milk products, the protein is in a modified form; they are unlikely to be harmful.

2. Cereals contain gluten, and this protein can also cause intolerance. Pasta and bread should not be the mainstay of your diet.

3. Red vegetables and fruits, exotic fruits. By the way, they are less digestible. An allergy “to red” can occur if the mother has a predisposition to it; in other cases, the reaction is possible due to overeating - after a full plate of cherries, for example.

4. Alcohol. There are no safe doses of alcohol during breastfeeding.

If you are passionate about trying something “forbidden”– for example, you are drawn to kiwi, introduce the new product gradually. Don't refuse, but try. Eat half of the “forbidden” fruit and watch your reaction. If there is no reaction, eat another half the next day. If nothing happens in two weeks, most likely nothing will happen. The main thing is not to worry about restrictions. You can eat - you can't overeat. But you also knew in ordinary life that overeating is unhealthy, and not just during the nursing period. If you made several sandwiches with strawberry jam, and your stomach turned a little after that, the child may have a skin rash not from the strawberry jam. And because the mother does not know her body, she does not know that it is harmful for her to eat bread in large quantities. And for some, bread is not a hindrance, but from monotonous food consisting of “empty” carbohydrates, the skin on the hands dries out and the hair deteriorates - my mother usually attributes these symptoms to her nursing position - they say, I’m giving away all the vitamins! And again he doesn’t watch his diet. Everything is individual. A dermatologist, when looking at a child’s diathesis, must look at the mother – at her skin. Ask if she has gastritis or eczema. And if so, did she choose the right diet for herself? Restrictions in everything are the wrong diet.

Here is also an excerpt from an interview with a nutritionist (Dietitian-nutritionist of the Ural Federal Center for Healthy Nutrition, researcher at the Laboratory of Hygiene and Physiology of Nutrition of the Ekaterinburg Medical Center for Prevention and Health Protection Olga Vyacheslavovna Anokhina)

How to feed a nursing mother?

- Olga Vyacheslavovna, how should a nursing mother eat so that milk remains valuable for as long as possible, so that deficiencies of certain substances that arise in the mother’s body are not projected onto milk? What products are appropriate to increase the consumption of, and what products, on the contrary, reduce the value of breast milk?

If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, this is all the more reason to think about how you eat and finally balance your diet. A nursing mother needs more protein, vitamins and microelements, and much less fat and carbohydrates so that the milk is not very fatty and carbohydrate-rich, because all this contributes to the development of fermentation and putrefactive processes in the intestines. It is wiser to maintain a fractional diet, six meals a day - we have already talked about it: eat often, but little by little.

But what about the widespread idea that “a nursing mother needs to eat for two,” and many strive to increase the amount they eat, citing the fact that in order to produce milk it is necessary to consume a large amount of food.

It is important not how much a nursing mother eats, but how varied the food is. When we eat traditional foods, we inevitably go through “extra” substances - we oversaturate ourselves with fats and carbohydrates, that is, exactly what is at the top of the above pyramid, and what we are advised to eat as little as possible. It's better to maintain a balance. Let mother eat a lot, but let it be a variety of foods that saturate the milk with vitamins, minerals and everything necessary. Because, think for yourself: what good is it to eat small meals six times a day if all these portions consist of a sausage sandwich and a cup of tea? This is not proper nutrition, although it is fractional and the portions are small. The food pyramid must be followed.

Is it true that different women have different milk composition? Some people have fatty milk, some have “liquid” milk, it happens that a seemingly thin woman breastfeeds 15-kilogram babies, while for others the baby is thin and constantly asks for the breast. Is this related to the quality of the milk?

Yes, as a rule, a mother gets the feeling that there is “something wrong” with her milk if the baby is constantly “hanging” on her chest... There may be a lot of milk, but it is poor in nutritional composition, and then we first of all start take care of mom's digestion. Because maybe the mother eats right, but not everything she eats ends up in the milk. And already against the background of a balanced diet and having eliminated the problems of food absorption, we introduce additional nutritional correctors. The same wheat germ - they are not only rich in vitamins and microelements, but also due to their bioavailability they are better absorbed (even with digestive disorders), these microelements quickly enter the blood, and therefore saturate the milk.

How do you feel about vegetarianism for nursing mothers?

This is acceptable if a woman has practiced vegetarianism before, but she definitely needs nutritional correction, because both she and the child will have deficiencies - this applies primarily to protein, zinc and B vitamins of animal origin. Since complete protein for humans is still animal protein, in dietetics it is believed that at least 50% of the total protein consumed should be animal protein. And even with a balanced diet, they still require additional nutritional adjustments adjusted for pregnancy or breastfeeding. This does not mean that you need to forcefully give meat to a woman if she has not eaten it on principle for several years. You can adjust your diet by increasing other protein-rich foods in your diet. As a rule, these are non-dairy based protein carriers - soy or other nutritional correctors.

There are many different rumors about a hypoallergenic diet for nursing mothers: red foods are prohibited, even red apples are prohibited, citing the fact that the baby may have an allergy... How justified is this?

The list of allergens is very large; there are allergens of the first, second and third order, depending on the degree of intensity. And if we exclude all allergens from a nursing mother’s diet, then, strictly speaking, she will have nothing to eat. Therefore, the first thing you need to pay attention to when treating allergies is the intestines. I have not seen a single child with allergies who had an absolutely healthy gastrointestinal tract. Gastrointestinal tract, gastrointestinal tract and again gastrointestinal tract - this is where we start getting rid of allergies. This applies to both the nursing mother and the allergy-prone child whom she feeds with her milk. When a child experiences various manifestations of allergies, you need to consult a competent doctor, and not only apply various ointments to the skin, but work with the cause! As a rule, sorbents, microflora, and other drugs that improve digestion are prescribed, depending on the nature of the problem. Allergy is a consequence. Sometimes, of course, there are cases of family allergies - there are allergy sufferers in all generations, and with them, yes - a hypoallergenic diet can be used, a competent doctor finds an individual approach to such patients. But in all other cases - and the vast majority of them - the cause of the allergy is improper digestion, both for the baby and the nursing mother.

Explain the mechanism of allergy. Why do the same foods cause allergies in one person, but not in another?

Well, for example. Mom ate, say, harmless oatmeal with water. With the help of mother's enzymes and other substances in her digestive tract, this porridge is converted into final products that go into milk, and from there - in semi-cooked form - this same porridge is very well absorbed by the child's body. But! If the mother herself has chronic gastritis, stagnation of bile in the intestines, dysbacteriosis, constipation for many days, insufficient enzymes, and much more, then this banal porridge has not been digested to those particles that are available for the child’s digestion. This very porridge in its “unfinished” form, so to speak, is still difficult-to-digest, foreign food for the child, which will be an allergen by definition. Although my mother ate very good and healthy food.

That is, the problem is not what a nursing mother eats, but how well she digests it?

Absolutely right! That is why, in some cases of allergies in infants, I prescribe treatment first of all to the mother herself. And lactofiltrum, and microflow (because the mother herself has dysbacteriosis), and corn silk, and pumpkinol (because it is necessary to improve the separation of bile, which contains a lot of substances that help digestion), and the same enzymes - I first prescribe it to the mother, and then then you can think about treating the child... But feeding an innocent baby with antihistamines and smearing his skin with allergy ointment does not mean treating allergies, it only means relieving symptoms! You need to start with correcting the digestion of a nursing mother. This, if you like, is my nutritional position.

Impressive? It seems to me that everything is very competent. All that remains is to listen.

How to react to skin manifestations in a baby on breastfeeding.

In the most alarming case (this does not apply to slightly reddened cheeks or dry skin), when skin problems really interfere with the child’s life, the mother switches to a diet: white and green vegetables, green fruits, gluten-free cereals (rice, buckwheat, corn) and gluten-free pasta, sweets - marmalade, marshmallows, simple cookies and dried goods, any meat is allowed - except chicken, white fish, fermented milk products without chemical additives. As you can see, the list is huge, and it’s impossible to go hungry.

For those who are especially suspicious: you can exclude any type of food for two weeks and carefully monitor the child’s reaction - for example, exclude all gluten (gluten cereals, bread, pasta). If within a month there are no changes in the condition of the child’s skin, then most likely the problem is not in the mother’s diet. And once again analyze your health! If a mother has gastritis, problems with the gallbladder or pancreas, she needs a gentle diet, since all these problems inevitably affect the child’s absorption of food.

In conclusion, I would like to say: constant nervousness and increased suspiciousness of a nursing mother can be a factor much more harmful than “wrong” food. If your baby is not yet a month old, the problems that arise during breastfeeding are most likely associated not so much with the gastronomic “crimes” of the mother, but with the objective difficulties of the adaptation period. Up to three months, babies are often tormented by intestinal colic, which is also most often a consequence of the immaturity of the gastrointestinal tract, and not an incorrectly selected menu. Listen to the advice of experts and to your “inner voice” - a mother’s instinct rarely fails.

Nutrition for a nursing mother after childbirth

It is difficult to overestimate the importance of proper nutrition for mommy, breastfeeding a newborn baby and especially in the first month from the moment the child is born . In this material we will tell you in detail about how to organize a complete and harmless for the health of the newborn baby nutrition for nursing mother. Below you will find a list of products recommended by nutritionists and pediatricians for nursing mothers , as well as a list of foods that should be avoided during the feeding period breastfeeding a newborn to avoid an allergic reaction in the baby, colic and bloating . We will also learn how to compose nursing mother menu with 6 meals a day.

Mother's milk is the best nutrition for a newborn baby . This product is easily absorbed by the baby’s body, it contains the optimal amount of minerals and vitamins, as well as specialized proteins: lysozyme, lactoferrin, immunoglobulins. Lactation suggests a significant correction nursing diet a young mother after childbirth, because the baby’s fragile body needs healthy, balanced and safe food. It is especially important to organize correctly feeding a nursing mother for the first month, since the digestive system of a newborn baby is still adapting to the digestion and assimilation of mother’s milk.
There is an opinion that diet of a nursing young mother She is very limited and there is little she can eat other than porridge. This is the wrong approach. A woman in labor should consume basic types of foods: dairy products and milk (in the first month after the birth of the baby you should still ), cereals, pasta, bread, eggs, fish and meat, vegetables, berries, fruits, juices, butter and vegetable oil, sugar and even confectionery. But it should be borne in mind that the child eats all this with milk. nursing mother , it is necessary to control the proportions of consumed products.

Some of them may cause colic and bloating (grapes, sweet cottage cheese, large quantities of confectionery, sweet soft drinks and anything that contains a lot of sugar). Also food allergies are common in newborns for chocolate, honey, smoked meats, sausage, dried foods, spicy and salty foods, canned food, citrus fruits, marinades - these products should be excluded from the menu for nursing mothers . Doctors don't recommend nursing mothers (especially immediately after childbirth) eat these types of foods. Asparagus, garlic, cabbage and onions change the flavor of milk, the baby won’t like it, he might even won't want to breastfeed , if these products are included.

Correct nutrition for a nursing mother and drinking plenty of fluids will help increase milk volume, which is especially important in the first month after childbirth. 10-15 minutes before how to put a baby to the breast , it is recommended to drink some liquid. 35 milliliters of water per 1 kilogram of a woman’s weight is the daily norm for a wet nurse. This takes into account the water that is in the food. Young nursing mothers It is useful to drink tea, freshly prepared juices from apples, plums and quinces, milk and fermented milk products.

Compiling nursing mother menu(six meals a day for a nursing mother)
One day diet option for mom who feeds the baby with her milk:
6:30 - glass of fresh milk
9:00 - porridge (can be replaced with cottage cheese with sour cream or casserole) and a sandwich with tea.
12:00 - fruit or freshly squeezed juice
14:00 - soup for the first course; for the second - vegetables and meat, salad + compote.
17:00 - cookies or bun with a fermented milk drink.
19:30 - porridge (can be replaced with vegetables), meat or fish, tea.
Before bed - a glass of milk.

When a woman regularly experiences hunger, it is better not to eat a lot of cookies, but to eat something filling (cottage cheese, fish, meat).

The menu for a nursing mother, which we posted above, clearly demonstrates the principle of frequent meals. The nutrition of a nursing mother for the first month is largely subordinated to feeding the baby with milk - so that the newborn baby receives a sufficient amount of substances necessary for the developing body It is important to eat well as many times as you need to breastfeed your baby. Next, we will tell you in detail about the diet after childbirth and the correct diet of a nursing mother important for the full development of the newborn . You will find a list of food products that it is advisable to include in your daily menu for nursing mothers after childbirth.

Nutritious nutrition for nursing mothers 5-6 times a day helps prevent many childhood diseases , which in recent years have shown stable growth among newborn babies . Try as quickly as possible exclude from your diet those foods that cause an allergic reaction in the baby and provoke colic or severe bloating . The menu for nursing mothers necessarily includes all the main food groups and plenty of fluid intake (very desirable - mineral water without gases, freshly squeezed juices).

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