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women focus on what they need to eat
during their pregnancy but what you eat
after while you're breastfeeding is also
very important you want to make sure
that you get specific nutrients such as
calcium potassium vitamin A vitamin D
also very good to eat a variety of foods
this exposes the baby to different
tastes healthy Beckmann with meteor
nutrition is here to discuss what foods
you should eat while you're
breastfeeding and what shoots foods you
should maybe avoid so do we have any big
no-nose that we need to watch out for
well we do want to be careful of the
timing it takes about one to two hours
for anything to really clear in our
bodies and so really when I have this
discussion with new moms that are
breastfeeding that I talk more about you
know maybe limiting and restricting so
of course alcohol is a really really big
thing that we want to try to do some in
Murrah in moderation and that's a
completely preference to the mother
whether they're comfortable with doing
that or not so always in moderation and
then making sure that you're getting the
timing of that and caffeine is kind of
similar to that so we want to do that in
moderation too so one to two cups maybe
not right around breastfeeding when you
know that maybe right after you feed you
have a cup of coffee you're sure yep so
we know that new moms are tired and
they're gonna want their coffee but
maybe after we breastfeed the baby or
when you're you're not planning to soon
absolutely and as far as the alcohol I
know they make those strips too is that
a good idea if a mom is going to have
maybe a sip of wine you know the testing
rapes is that maybe the right way to go
that is certainly an extra layer of
being confident that the baby isn't
going to get in their system their
systems can't break it down anywhere
near as quickly as adults can so what
about any foods I know I was speaking
with you on the break I breastfed my
daughter for almost seven months in the
beginning people were coming over to the
house visiting her bringing food a lot
of it was like spaghetti
chocolate chip cookies and then my baby
would get super fussy and my sister told
me that like foods with acid
you know like obviously cost a sauce and
chocolate of course chocolate chip
cookies she's like that is bad is that
true or is that just a myth well we want
to think about whatever we're eating is
going to end up
the systems of these little tiny bodies
and so the more nutritionally dense
foods that we can get into our own
system that's full of vitamins and
minerals you know the more that it's
going to carry over into the breast milk
and then just being aware you were it
seems like you were really attentive to
your baby's responses and how they
reacted to those foods so all babies are
different and so just making sure that
you do pay attention to the common food
allergens which might be the dairies the
nuts stuff like that wheat how about you
know we talked about calorie intake and
and there's huge pressure to lose that
baby weight or drop the weight get your
body back yeah but you know it's hard
when you're breastfeeding because you
need to make sure you're eating enough
and eating more calories than normal
still to produce the milk can you talk
about that at all about like making sure
that yeah you're eating healthy but
you're eating enough - yeah absolutely
breast feeding is very much so what we
call it anabolic action and so we're
building up nutrients so that we can
provide milk to the baby and so on for
the first six months you know you're
really looking at an average of an extra
four hundred calories per day and then
if you're exclusively breastfeeding
after that then you might get up to 500
extra calories per day it's almost like
you're eating more than you were when
you're pregnant or I'm probably close to
that last trimester and you know if you
you aren't able to eat that quite that
much then that my you know impact the
amount of milk supply certainly your
energy levels which you'll need as a new
mom and also the kind of nutrients that
do carry over into the baby's breast
milk if there may be like what would you
suggest be like the best meal for a mom
to eat whether it's you know at dinner
or whatever that you haven't going that
would be good for the baby you know
there's a numerous ways to eat healthy
so it kind of I mean I would say a meal
that the mom enjoys that's full of a
lean protein whole grains and a lot of
fruits and vegetables because that's
going to make sure that the mom is
getting extra protein which is needed
with breastfeeding really good energy
and nutrition in the whole grains and
then tons of antioxidants in the fruits
and vegetables last question for you
real quick it's okay to take those
prenatal still while you're
breastfeeding
more vitamins to make sure that your
baby's still getting sure a breast milk
yeah with them a nutritionally dense
diet then that should ensure that you
are getting a lot of nutrition and
especially if you're not a big fish
eater then you could look into Omega 3s
which prenatals do have but completely
fine to do that thank you so much for
enlightening us we definitely want to
keep everyone healthy out there
especially those little babies learn
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