Nursing mom's menu by month

Proper and nutritious nutrition of the baby's mother is the basis and guarantee of the child's good health and well-being. The use of foods in accordance with the list of permitted products, exclusion from the menu of unauthorized ones, will reduce the likelihood of the baby developing a tendency to allergic reactions.

This is explained quite simply - all substances contained in food pass into breast milk, thereby exerting a direct effect on the fragile body of a newborn.

Renowned pediatrician Evgeny Komarovsky compiled a list that includes both foods that can be eaten in any quantities, and those that should be completely excluded from the diet for the period of feeding. Following the doctor's advice, you can form the optimal menu for a nursing mother for months, the Komarovsky table will successfully help in this difficult matter.

Benefits of breastfeeding

Nutrients, vitamins and amino acids found in the food consumed daily are essential for an adult a person to maintain life and provide the body with a complex necessary for immunity vitamins. Concerning babies, then the baby needs food for growth, development, proper formation of systems and organs.

The ideal food for a newborn in every sense is breast milk. It is his use that allows you to protect a child from many diseases, to provide him with a sufficient amount of necessary and useful substances. The benefits of breastfeeding with breast milk are obvious:

• Mother's milk is sterile clean, which eliminates the likelihood of pathogens entering the baby's body. Artificial feeding, unfortunately, does not guarantee complete safety and sterility.
• Breast milk contains an optimal set of nutrients and trace elements that contribute not only to the full growth of the baby, but also to the activity of the digestive function. Thus, the likelihood of rejection of the food eaten by the baby's body is excluded.
• The composition of milk changes as the baby grows. Depending on his age, it contains exactly the set of nutrients that the baby needs.

Features of nutrition of a nursing woman

For the full development and growth of the baby, it is necessary to draw up a balanced menu of a nursing mother for months in advance, the Komarovsky table is an ideal assistant in this case. In accordance with the list below, in the first days of life, a nursing woman is recommended to consume crumbs a very limited number of products, in order to exclude the likelihood of developing allergic reactions in a child character.

In the future, it is permissible to diversify the diet with additional products, but this should be done in accordance with the following recommendation: it is necessary to introduce new food into the menu in a minimum amount. It is recommended to carefully monitor the reaction of the child's body to various innovations.

Everything that a nursing mother ate has a direct impact not only on the quality of milk, but also on its taste. So, hot seasonings, spices, marinades and preservation are necessary completely excludeas they can impart an unpleasant aftertaste to the milk.

Menu for a nursing mother

In general, the menu of a nursing mother by months, the Komarovsky table, compiled taking into account all the needs of the crumbs, is as follows:

Compliance with water balance

According to medical research, the amount of breast milk is in no way related to the amount of fluid consumed by a breastfeeding woman. Nevertheless, most mothers still note that after drinking a cup of warm tea, there is a "rush" of milk. In this regard, it is necessary to maintain a water balance, using liquid as needed.

As for the permitted drinks, then best to drink plain water, fruit drinks and fruit drinks based on both fresh and dry fruits, fermented milk drinks, black and green tea. For the period of feeding, all kinds of carbonated drinks, natural juices with a long shelf life, and alcohol should be completely excluded from the diet.

Meals by month

The body of a newborn baby is very sensitive and susceptible to any negative external influences. That is why a nursing woman should pay special attention to her own diet during the first weeks of her baby's life.

First month - most importantly, even a small amount of "junk" food eaten during this period can have a negative effect on the child's digestion, provoking the appearance of flatulence, colic, swelling. It is recommended to limit the daily menu to the following dishes:

• vegetable soups with the addition of a small amount of vegetable oil;
• liquid cereals, prepared on the basis of milk, or boiled in water;
• dried fruit compotes;
• fermented milk products with a minimum shelf life;
• a small amount of green apples is acceptable.

When the baby is one month old, it is permissible to gradually introduce into the daily diet a small amount of lean meat, as well as broths cooked on its basis. Recommended Eat small amounts of fruits and vegetables every day. But here, too, there are significant limitations - you should not eat fruits of red and orange colors, since the substances contained in them can provoke the development of allergies.

At the end of the third month you can enrich a rather meager diet with a small amount of pasta, pastries, cookies, cooked without the use of yeast. You can add steam cutlets, stew of vegetables and meat, baked fish to the diet.

In order to maximally protect the baby from all kinds of digestive disorders, allergies, as well as other negative reactions with side of the body, the nursing mother is recommended to start a diary, in which you should record information about the dishes eaten during day. Special attention should be paid give to productsthat are potential allergens.

The diary should be kept in such a way as to record not only information regarding the daily diet, but also the reaction of the baby's body to the foods introduced into the menu. When constipation, diarrhea, colic appear, dishes that provoke indigestion should be immediately removed from the diet.

Compliance with simple rules will provide the baby with a sufficient amount of nutrients and vitamins obtained with breast milk, and also protect it as much as possible from negative reactions organism.