The power of the mother during breast-feeding could be summed up with "how to make something simple complicated."
A bit 'for the usual speech with breastfeeding in the years we have complicated life as much as possible, a little' commercial interests to sell pills and powders, to hear that you say around a woman who seems to nurse must follow special diets, should deprive itself of a long list of foods, thereby making breastfeeding a choice worthy of Buddhist monks.
What to eat breast-feeding? What you usually eat! It 'makes sense that I will not have to be sure to explain that "usually" means "healthy eating, balanced, varied, in other words follow the directions of the famous" food pyramid ".
The pyramid provides the basis for the food to be eaten more often and gradually going up those plans are to be consumed less frequently. Try self-questioning and see if you guess the sequence ...
Here is the solution to the quiz: at the base of the pyramid are fruits and vegetables, then we find foods rich in carbohydrates (bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, etc..), Then dairy products (milk, yogurt, cheese), then protein foods (meat, fish, meats, eggs, vegetables) and of course the top are the desserts.
Nothing new, I hope.
course, there may be some adjustments based on personal circumstances (specific diseases, allergies, physical conditions) or ethical choices (eg for vegetarians), but this should always be discussed with a physician.
As just said applies to every point in their lives, not only during lactation.
It 's true but that is often only when the pregnancy and subsequent breastfeeding for fear of repercussions on the health of the child, there are questions about the correctness of their food.
No doubt the various moments "details" of our lives (Just like pregnancy, lactation, infancy or old age) may require special attention from the food, but always bearing in mind that the pattern of the food pyramid is the foundation of healthy eating for all ages.
Let's see what are the specific attention to devote to breastfeeding.
always started from a healthy diet, breast-feeding is a caloric intake greater than normal, because milk production is a real work for our body. It will not over-eat more than usual, just eat a little 'more following his hunger. It 'obvious that if you get fat, you are eating too so you have to drop the amount slightly.
On the one hand and unfortunately the other hand, fortunately, the pounds after pregnancy remain to be disposed of. These pounds are not put there by chance by Mother Nature. They are used just for milk production. So even if you succeed with strange analysis to establish that Mrs. Smith needs 657 extra calories per day to produce the milk needed for her child, this lady will not have to eat 657 calories more than usual. It will eat a bit more than usual, the other will be taken from stocks of their "meat" that has accumulated during pregnancy. Do you know when the bears hibernate and do much to fatten stock for the winter? In the spring, are again in great shape!
In some mothers the slimming effect of breastfeeding is very clear, in others less. E 'logical if the "excuse" a breastfeeding mother eats twice as much as usual, will be highly unlikely to dispose of pounds left over from pregnancy ...
Now we saw the "what" to eat. The "what" is wasting hundreds of suggestions and myths.
A little example: it was found that maternal nutrition on the whole has little effect on production and milk quality, or less than what you think. Only the amount and quality of fat in breast milk depends on the quantity and quality of fats eaten by the mother, but is also seen that even if the mother has a diet too low in fat, breast milk never decreases below a certain threshold. This means that even a malnourished mother will produce milk for adequate quantity and quality.
This is one of many intelligent mechanisms of Mother Nature: I think of our ancestors. Passed through famine and times of the year in which the food supply was low and monotonous, and yet still growing infants and mothers' milk was always good. If anything, the children had problems of malnutrition when they were no longer breastfed. And the same is happening today in many poor countries: breastfed babies are just fine, the largest no longer breastfed siblings are clearly malnourished.
Milk in a sense, is produced at the expense of the mother, because the nature of protecting the weakest in this case is the child. So
a breastfeeding mother must care for the substantial food for itself. Just as everyone should do! In fact, even
underweight or anemic mothers can breast-feed (and therefore, in their own interest, it will have the opportunity to care).
Only the most serious cases of malnutrition such as anorexia cause feeding problems, and not only that logic. They go out of fashion
multivitamin supplements in pill or powder form designed for breastfeeding mothers and many mothers take them in the hope of having a milk "better." The Most vitamins and minerals but has a concentration in breast milk that does not depend on what the mother eats. For example, you can take all the iron supplements you want, but the iron in your milk is always the same.
In some cases the mother's diet does indeed change the content of certain vitamins and minerals in milk, but the question must be asked only if the mother already has a shortage of his own, otherwise pills and powders are a waste of money.
There is only one case to be considered, and probably little known: the iodine.
Iodine is a very important mineral for our bodies and a lack of iodine is the cause of many diseases which can sometimes give very noticeable symptoms and therefore are not diagnosed. For various reasons, difficult to power alone can meet the daily requirement of iodine, also in parts of iodine deficiency in the population is even more significant.
For this reason, many awareness campaigns urging everyone to use iodized salt. During pregnancy and early childhood increases the need for iodine, and even the use of iodized salt is sufficient to guarantee the quantity required by the body. This is the only case in which, after consulting your doctor, you should take a supplement, both in pregnancy and lactation.
said that, everything else is chatter.
We do a quick review:
- Water: As mentioned in previous articles, if you drink more water you have no more milk. Since nursing then you thirsty, then drink more. That's it. Force them to drink water if you are not thirsty does not help, and indeed, drinking excessive quantities of liquids is downright dangerous (I feel that forcing mothers to drink five gallons per day of miraculous tea ... please do not do it unless you really thirsty!).
- Cow's milk : I also remember that I am pregnant I read that I should drink at least a liter of milk per day to breastfeed. It 's a fairy tale, the milk is not milk! What was the mysterious mechanism cow's milk should be turned into breast milk? Some recommend it for the calcium content. Even taking calcium supplements during lactation the mother's body becomes depleted of calcium, of course, but equally of course in the months ahead (even if you're still breastfeeding) the re-deposit calcium in bones and in fact, you redeposit with a more " robust so that long-term women who have breastfed have fewer problems with osteoporosis, contrary to what many believe. So no need to take while breastfeeding more calcium than normal.
- Beer and spirits: the popular tradition to drink beer to make milk, and maybe an occasional glass of red because "it makes the blood" and pulls on the mother. One study showed that some substances in the beer actually increase levels of prolactin, but high levels of prolactin without a child more stern are not very useful. So if you drink more beer than milk!
alcohol content in beer, wine and other beverages passes into breast milk. It 's also true that, than alcohol drunk by the mother, the concentration in breast milk is reduced. So, considering that it is not "necessary" to drink alcohol, consumption of alcohol in moderation occasionally (up to two glasses per day) is acceptable, even better would be drinking on a full stomach and after feeding, so you spend much time as possible before the next feed. In this way the alcohol is disposed of by her mother and then by milk.
fact alcohol does not accumulate in milk, but is eliminated with the passage of hours as is the case for alcohol in the body that has the mother. Needless to say that moderate consumption of alcohol should not be anything new, given that this is within the principles of healthy eating!
- tasty food: every culture and region has a long list of foods that would taste bad milk, and then the nursing mother should absolutely avoid. Usually it comes to garlic, onions, cabbage, spices, asparagus. I'm sure you also have discouraged others.
It 's true that the taste of milk changes depending on the mother's diet (and that's good), but who said that those tastes are not pleasing to your child? I assure you that children, if you let them do have a much more refined palate, and then enjoy tastes of our seemingly unthinkable.
No doubt it can happen that a child shows an intolerance to feed every time you eat a certain food. If you can figure out what the offending food will restrict consumption, but you can not tell in advance which will be unwelcome this food!
- Foods that are "air" : immediately after the foods that give flavor to the milk that we do not recommend the food (and adults!) Can to bloating, "air in the stomach." And so are bandits beans and legumes in general, along with cabbage and all his relatives. The fear is obviously that these foods causing them the terrible infant colic. One thing certain is known about the mysterious colic is not caused by the air in the stomach. Even if this were the case, the air in the stomach caused by her mother and bean sprouts is due to the fact that, more or less, we can not digest (ie absorb) certain substances contained therein. For this reason ferment and develop gas. The gas certainly will not pass into breast milk (otherwise we would have milk bubbly ...), and substances that cause the gases do not pass into the milk because the mother does not absorb.
- foods that cause allergies : someone has forbidden to eat foods traditionally regarded as allergenic, such as fish, eggs, milk and dairy products, nuts, shellfish and so on. First, any restriction on these foods have meaning only if there is a high risk, raised by family history, that the child is allergic. Moreover, in general, those attempts.
There are no studies demonstrating the clear and unambiguous benefit to eliminate certain allergenic foods from the diet. If you experience problems in children and are suspected to be due to an allergy to some food eaten by the mother for a few weeks the mother strictly avoid that food and you will see if this leads to something or not.
Avoid these foods in advance, as in previous cases, it makes little sense and serves only to complicate the lives of his mother!
At this point it is clear that if you follow all the "prohibitions" that you are advised you should only eat white rice.
Eat a healthy and varied: If you'll notice it if your child's reactions to strange, to tighten things up! Sara
Cosano
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