What to eat while breastfeeding? You have definitely asked this question if you are a nursing mother. We have a quick answer on the foods you may eat with pleasure, but also, you should get aware of the foods, that you might have to exclude.
Useful Food
Meat, especially beef, mutton, poultry (you should carefully eat the meat of hens and other birds from poultry farms), game, eggs in limited quantity (on the one hand, they are useful, on the other – sometimes can cause an allergy).
Fish, especially fat because cod-liver oil is very useful!
All vegetable oils (olive, sesame, linen, and oil from wheat germs and so forth and so forth) and butter.
Grain, especially integral, is not refined.
Pasta of firm grades of wheat.
Taking into Account these Recommendations Our Cook Offered these Dishes at Your Choice
• Bruschetta with olives (champignons)
• Salad with grapefruit, chicken, and a sauce of natural yogurt
• Porridge with bulgur and dried fruits
• Salad with a tinned tuna and paste
• Salad with paste, cherry tomatoes, and mozzarella
• Mussels with a creamy sauce
• Paste with a seabass, eggplants, and cherry tomatoes
• Paste with a walnut
• Lasagna with vegetables (classical with a bolognese is also possible)
• Cantucci (the Italian cookies with almonds)
• Pita (self-made flat cakes inside which stuffing is possible)
What to Eat While Breastfeeding with Caution
Crude vegetables, fruit, and berries. You can eat them, but at first, it is necessary to subject them to thermal treatment: Vegetables: to bake, extinguish or cook, fruits – to parboil. You’d be safe using dried fruits, because many dried fruits are very sweet, and breastfeeding women often want to eat something sweet! The thing is that a lot of glucose is spent on the “production” of breast milk, so the hand-made desserts are really great! Purchased sweets contain a lot of synthetic fats (margarine) that are very harmful! It is necessary to eat very carefully white cabbage (even boiled!), peas, and haricot as they cause the increased gas generation.
You exclude the whole milk and fermented milk products, but it is possible to consume cheese in small amounts and an unlimited number of qualitative butter. It is extremely useful!
The consumption of fresh pastries, including fresh bread, should be limited. It is concerned with a purchased product for which pastries use a huge quantity of yeast. This yeast doesn’t manage to be completely digested during roasting and continues fermentation processes already in the intestines.
It is recommended to do croutons, toasts to solve this problem due to additional processing by high temperature. Slices and small loaves are useful.
Born in Belarus, 1985, a pedagogue and family psychologist, mother. Taking part in procedures of social adaptation of the foster children in new families. Since 2015 is a chief editor of the motherhow.com project, selecting the best and up-to-date material for those, who are planning, expecting, and already having babies.