Diet nursing mother if she and her baby are healthy, it should be as diverse. Only at the very beginning, in the neonatal period, when the gastrointestinal tract of the child has not adapted to extrauterine life, we need more or less restrictive, a month or two the woman already knows that it does not carry her baby.

Features of the digestive system of an infant

Just born baby is completely sterile. Sterile and ego gastrointestinal track. But the skin and mucous membranes of the newborn, with a message to the external environment, immediately begin to be populated by microorganisms. The intestine is the real war between beneficial and pathogenic microflora. Useful microflora helps to digest food, and opportunistic at any time can cause disease.

Breast milk is well absorbed by the body of the child and helps to create a balance between the normal and the pathogenic microflora, whereas in artificial feeding, even the most adapted formula, digestion is disturbed, the use of the foreign protein leads to the formation of large amounts of toxic substances (due to a poorly developed muscular coat intestinal toxic substances easily absorbed into the blood), lower acidity of the intestinal contents and create a more comfortable environment for the development of pathogenic microflora.

Violation of the right balance between the normal and the pathogenic microflora causing disruption of food digestion, bloating and intestinal cramps. Rarely what the baby in the first month of life can avoid intestinal colic, even if he is breastfed Breastfeeding: notes . But then he gradually adapted and digestion improving. This is very important maternal nutrition.

What could have a breastfeeding mother

Pediatricians insist that nutrition nursing mother should be as diverse. The diet should include women a large number of proteins: lean beef, chicken, turkey, cheese, dairy products, eggs. Fatty food is better not to use - in low-fat meat and dairy products contain enough animal fat, and vegetable fats can be cooked first and second courses.

Carbohydrates are essential nursing mothers, but not in the form of sweets and pastry, as well as cereals, stewed vegetables, vegetable soups, borscht Borsch: versatile dish for every taste .

Very important vitamins, macro- and microelements, contained in fresh fruits and vegetables. But in the first month of life of fresh fruits and vegetables should be consumed with caution, as they may cause the baby flatulence. But gradually, introducing into his diet apples first, then the other fruits and raw vegetables, and then we can ensure that the child will normally carry them.

What you need to limit

If the mother and baby are healthy, after the first two - three months (this term is different), the mother can eat any food. Nevertheless, it is better to stick to a healthy diet and moderation. Eat better mainly boiled, stewed or steamed food. Little fried usually does not bring harm to the child, but if you constantly eat fried foods, it can not like a child.

You should not try to drink a lot of milk, replace the rest of the food - varied diet is more useful, while milk produced better quality. And it is better not to give preference to milk and fermented milk products and curd. After three months may be administered in the diet and hard cheeses.

Exclude need to fully sweet carbonated drinks, strong tea and coffee, alcohol, spicy, spicy dishes. Restrict to be sweets, fried, smoked, pickled food. But in general, no special restrictions woman is not required: you can have a little bit of everything, but preference is given to healthy food.

Individual problems breastfeeding

Sometimes a child on the background of bloating Bloating - when you need to go to the doctor?   appear intestinal colic. In this case, the woman should pay attention to what she had eaten some of the food a child's tummy swells. Most often, flatulence and intestinal cause clicks or sweet crude fiber vegetables, such as fresh salad. However, the case that intestinal colic occurs in the child's mother after the use of a completely harmless product - it speaks of individual intolerance of the child this product. Women have to find out what it reacts to the child and to remove this product from your diet.

However, proper nutrition is especially important when a child suffers from congenital allergy - atopy. In this case, the mother has to be excluded from the diet not only products which can cause allergies (eggs, citrus fruits, strawberries, carrots and so on), but also to select individual diet in which allergy (usually atopic dermatitis - skin allergy) will be minimal.

Galina Romanenko

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