The lactating mother's diet should contain in sufficient quantity fats, proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins A and B12. For example, in women whose diet is poor in protein or calories, full-value milk can be produced, but in smaller quantities.

To ensure the development of high-grade milk, the following recommendations should be observed.

Increase the number of calories in the diet by about 500 units compared to the period before pregnancy. Do not believe the talk that a nursing mother should eat a lot to have a lot of milk and do not faint. Breast-feeding a woman should just eat right. All that you eat above the norm, sooner or later lead to the appearance of excess weight.

It's not that you always remain slim, like in girlhood, because the figure changes over time, but about not getting an unhealthy fullness. Completeness makes you sluggish, leads to a decrease in efficiency and, finally, creates a greater propensity to disease. There were times when women sacrificed their health to save at all costs the fashionable slender waist. They ate a little and only low-calorie food. In our time, it seems, fall into the other extreme. After childbirth can no longer be interested in their own appearance. They do not deny themselves anything: neither in whipped cream, nor in chocolate, nor in excess of sugar in coffee. The result in this case does not take long to wait. The figure inevitably begins to round off.

Completely enough 3 times a day to take nutritious food, it should include vegetables (mainly those that are used in raw form), about half a liter of milk. It is necessary to have in the diet eggs, fresh fruit, bread, unsweetened cookies from whole-grain. This is the foundation of your food.

Food should include dishes rich in calcium. You and your child need it to preserve and build healthy bones and teeth. A lot of calcium in milk, dairy products, cauliflower. In addition, you need vitamins and foods that contain soluble and insoluble fiber to fight constipation.

During lactation, you can sometimes afford your favorite sweets (only if the child does not have allergies). A small amount of sugar will not reduce the amount of milk. But do not abuse them, as this interrupts your appetite, and you will not be able to fully eat, and the milk will not contain the substances necessary for the child. For the same reason, refuse from roast potatoes, white bread and other high-calorie dishes.

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