Diet postpartum

August 7, 2012

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Immediately after returning from the hospital a woman tries to adapt to a new life as a young mother. And among the whole set of the most important moments of her, be sure to adjust the diet. After all diet after childbirth - It is a question requiring particularly careful approach, as this depends on the length of the recovery period, a young mother and her state of health is satisfactory, and the active development of her baby.

Basically, all the recommendations regarding diet in the postpartum period, based on the fact that the young mother wants to establish lactation   and practice breast-feeding baby. There are certain differences of doctors on the recommendations on which to base a proper diet after birth.

Permitted and Prohibited Products

It provided a number of products and dishes that the young mother should not include in the menu in the first months after the birth of the baby. They include, above all, very strong tea, coffee, smoked dishes, chocolate products, as well as all fried foods and very salty food. It is strictly forbidden to drink alcohol - both strong and low alcohol. All these products are under a ban throughout the whole period of breastfeeding. In the first six months after delivery follow these prohibitions must be especially careful.

More than a strict diet after giving birth for the first postpartum month. In these days of responsible woman should not drink milk, eat eggs, cheese, canned food. A young mother is not recommended a dough snack cakes, salty, pickled, sour foods. Are under ban raw fruits and vegetables, all the dishes of beans, cabbage. You can not drink soda and kvass.

After the end of the first month of breast-feeding, these products are gradually introduced to the menu. However, it is important to gradually get used to each new dishes and products by studying the reaction of the baby in the breast milk.

For all of these dietary recommendations in the postpartum period are based on the high probability of bad reactions to certain foods. So, there may be manifestations diathesis . constipation   and other digestive disorders, as gastrointestinal baby only adapts to full operation. A certain group of products may be exciting to work on the immature nervous system of a young child. Also, the infant may simply not like the taste of milk, which varies depending on recently ate mother.

Particular care should be observed postpartum diet to women who used to eat a lot of sweets. At the time of feeding the baby is necessary to replace the forbidden candy and chocolate with honey, homemade jams, some types of dried fruits. But even allowed sweets must be strictly dosed: too much can adversely affect the condition of mother and baby.

How to make a post-natal diet

Postpartum menu should consist of the products and dishes that do not cause a negative reaction in a child. Consequently, in the first weeks after childbirth a woman needs to make the menu so that it was dominated by a variety of cereals, which must be prepared on the water and sugar. The most optimal product for the newly-made mother considered porridge of oatmeal. Every day it is desirable to use dietary soups with the addition of cereals, boiled and steamed vegetables, lean fish, meat, potato dishes and pasta. A young mother is recommended to prefer vegetable oil. You can occasionally eat hard and processed cheese, eat some nuts.

Do not add to soups, salads and other dishes of cabbage. But beets nursing mother can eat almost every day, as the substances that are in this vegetable, positive impact on the body just given birth to a woman. Vegetables in any case can not fry: they are roasted or stewed on the water with the addition of vegetable oil. By the way, vegetables recommended to eat at each of the meals: they saturate the body with vitamins weakened. Similarly prepared fish and meat dishes for the young mother. But enough to include these nutritious foods allowed only one daily meal.

Special care must be taken to the use of mineral, but very high-calorie nuts. Enough to eat a few nuts daily as overreliance on any type of nuts may eventually lead to a set of overweight   and even adversely affect the condition of the baby.

Some experts advise women in the first months after the appearance of the baby does not eat berries and fruits red. The motivation is simple: they can cause allergic reactions . It is best to restrict the gifts of nature green. Yet it should be noted that the allergic reaction in an infant can cause other products. Therefore, every mother, using a new purged, should always be alert and watch out for the slightest changes in the child's condition.

Experts say that in order to support the normal lactating women should consume each day about 800 additional calories. During gestation a baby, every woman is gaining a certain margin of weight, thanks to which every day on the production of breast milk in the body is released another 300 calories. Therefore, the optimum for nursing mothers to diet after birth, which contains more than 2,700 calories a day. With less caloric diet may decrease milk production. Moreover, if the diet of the young mother is not well balanced, it is fraught with the manifestation of a breakdown. As a result, the woman will not be able to withstand those loads that are associated with caring for the baby.

Given that the composition of breast milk in large part is water, a breastfeeding woman should drink up to three liters of fluid every day. But the morning nursing mother can start from tea with milk.

Diet after cesarean

If a woman suffered no ordinary birth, and cesarean section , The diet after birth is different from the usual diet of mothers only in the first few days. In this case, it is important to fully restore the ability of the intestine to empty themselves. A woman who spends his first day after birth in a hospital ward, can only drink water without gas, which allows you to add a little lemon juice. The fact that immediately after the Caesarean section a woman is required to put a dropper. Consequently, all essential nutrients it receives intravenously.

The second day after the operation has a more varied diet. If the recovery is going well, the woman may have been a little gruel, low-fat broth, mashed potatoes.

On the third day after cesarean section is allowed to eat some white meat chicken, boiled lean fish, drink sweet tea. Assuming no complications on the fourth day after the operation the woman can already have all the products that are allowed mothers nursing baby breast milk.

It is important that the young mother had suffered from a cesarean, always made use of the dishes and foods that stimulate intestinal motility: This salad of beets, carrots, prunes.

During the recovery period after surgery should eat food fractionally, at least six times a day. A woman may not have to limit yourself to drinking, eating rather weak, slightly sweetened tea, jelly, rosehip tea, stewed fruit.

For recovery after cesarean section women should come especially carefully and deliberately. So if you want to eat a certain product in the first days after the operation it is best to consult with your doctor about the advisability of including it in the diet. In the following days, it is important not to consume those foods that provokes both diarrhea and constipation.

Postnatal Diet and Weight Loss

It is clear that every woman wants to lose weight as quickly as possible and return to the onetime proportions. Extra kilos after birth are most women. This inherent nature, therefore it is necessary to adjust the amount of food consumed and be sure to exercise.

For a woman who has just returned from the hospital, it is important to ensure the best possible nutrition. So for six weeks after giving birth a strict diet is contraindicated. After this period you can take to the diet more meticulously. But in general, a young mother just should not abuse the high-calorie food and exceed the recommended amount of calories per day.

Diet during the postnatal period, of course, may contain a fat-containing meal. But at the same amount of fat does not exceed a quarter of the total caloric daily menu. In general, a nursing mother should not consume more than 50 grams of pure fat per day. To sort out how much fat we consume every day, you should know that one tablespoon of vegetable oil will contain about 10 grams of fat, while milk chocolate bar - 70 grams of fat.

During long-term feeding baby breast milk of women, which does not exceed the permissible levels of calories and not abusing sweet and fatty foods, gradually resets the extra weight due to the process of lactation.

Necessary vitamins and minerals

Proper diet postpartum should, among other things, remedy the lack of nutrients in the female body. It is important to replenish Calcium Lost during fetal development of the baby. Therefore, a few weeks after the birth in the menu can already be allowed to gradually introduce dairy products. In addition, oranges contain a lot of calcium and cabbage, especially broccoli. These products are immediately postpartum mothers can use that for some reason do not feed the baby breast milk. But lactating women with such products is better to wait a little bit. Sometimes doctors strongly recommend their patients, has recently given birth, taking medications that contain calcium. However, calcium-containing agents for more intensive assimilation of this element, it is desirable to take a magnesium . zinc   and Vitamin D . By the way, this vitamin is important not only for the mother but also for the baby. Many vitamin D is in fish, eggs, dairy products.

Perfectly designed and perfect diet for young mothers does not exist: it is important to choose the right products on their own and prepare the menu. Therefore, the main rule of the postnatal diet - eat only healthy foods that help to quickly restore power, actively care for newborns and return to the prenatal state.