After hard and complex work - childbirth - the woman’s body weakens, hormonal changes and getting used to the usual course of life occur.
At this time, hot flashes of milk begin, so it is very important to understand what should be the diet of a nursing mother in the first month after the birth of the baby, because his health and well-being depend on it. The qualitative composition of breast milk directly depends on what the newly mummy eats.
What should I eat while breastfeeding?
The nutrition of a young mother should be full and balanced and contain all the necessary nutrients and vitamins. Food should be as healthy and healthy as possible, so it is important to know what you can eat for a young mother, and what foods should be removed from her diet in the first month after childbirth. A few days after the birth of the crumbs, it is recommended to use products such as:
- buckwheat, cooked in water;
- A small piece of boiled meat, such as beef;
- the bread should be slightly dried or replaced with bread rolls;
- a small piece of hard cheese with a low fat content;
- a few walnuts;
- you should drink more, about two liters of liquid, it can be tea or decoctions from herbs.
The diet of a nursing mother in the first month after childbirth should exclude alcohol,
soda, spicy foods, seasonings and spices, garlic and onions. All of these products can affect the palatability of milk, and the baby simply can refuse to feed.
Menu for mom from the third day
The diet for a nursing mother on the third day can be slightly diversified. Along with buckwheat, you can enter oat and millet porridge on the menu. You can include vegetables that need to be baked in the oven or steamed. It can be cauliflower, zucchini, rutabaga. You can also bake apples, only fruits should choose green, as the child may be allergic to red. To avoid constipation, you can eat bran. Fermented baked milk is added to the drinks, and the amount of drink should be reduced to one liter per day.
What can you eat from the seventh day?
The diet of a nursing mother in the first month becomes even more diverse a week after the birth of the baby. In the menu you can include boiled fish, broth cooked from lean meat. Rice is added to the cereals, but only in small quantities, since constipation may occur. In addition, mom can eat low-fat cottage cheese and fresh green apples. But the amount of drink should again be increased to two liters per day.
If there is a decrease in lactation, then you can drink the infusion of parsley. And by the end of the first month of the baby’s life, the mother can include eggs,
baked potatoes, boiled chicken, beets, pears and lemon in her diet.
Monthly mom’s diet
The recommendations described above may vary slightly in individual cases, because all people are individual. It is important to remember that all new products should be introduced into the menu of a nursing woman gradually, one after another. Introduced the product - looked at the reaction of the baby, if there is an allergy. If everything is in order, then after some period of time you can enter the next product. You can’t rush and there is everything that your heart desires, because if a child has an allergic reaction, a woman simply won’t be able to understand which product she caused.
The diet of a nursing mother in the first month: what should be excluded
First of all, it is necessary to exclude products containing alcohol and alcoholic beverages. It is also not recommended to use sausages and various smoked meats, mayonnaise, ketchup. Cabbage can contribute to gas formation and lead to colic in the baby. Grapes have a laxative effect, so in order to avoid loose stool in the crumbs, it is also better to refuse it. Products that contain dyes and preservatives, not only will not benefit the child, but may also harm him. Tropical fruits and vegetables, especially orange and red, cucumbers, tomatoes, chocolate, are undesirable in the diet of a nursing mother.