When breastfeeding, mothers usually eat more green vegetables, such as carrots and green vegetables. Eat more fruits with more water: oranges, watermelons, peaches, etc.
Dietary contraindications during lactation
1. Chocolate: You can eat chocolate during lactation, but you must pay attention to a certain amount, which depends on each woman's physical system and baby's age. Eating too much chocolate is harmful to the new mother and baby, and theobromine contained in chocolate will penetrate into breast milk and accumulate in the baby's body. Theobromine can harm the nervous system and heart, relax muscles, increase urine output, and make babies indigestion, unstable sleep and crying. Eating more chocolate will affect the appetite and make the body fat.
2. Tea water: Because the substances contained in tea will enter the baby's body with the milk, the baby is prone to intestinal spasm and crying for no reason, which makes the baby sleep badly and causes other complications. The nursing mother should avoid drinking tea water, otherwise it will affect the baby's health.
3. Alcohol and cigarettes: a small amount of alcohol can promote milk secretion and has no effect on the baby; When excessive, it will inhibit milk secretion and affect uterine contraction, so you should drink less or not. And cigarettes, if the nursing mother still smokes during breastfeeding, nicotine will soon appear in the milk and be absorbed by the baby. Studies have shown that nicotine has a bad effect on the baby's respiratory tract, so it is best for nursing mothers to quit smoking and avoid inhaling second-hand smoke.
4. Coffee, cola and other beverages: Coffee will excite the central nervous system of the human body. A cup of 15 ml coffee, that is, it contains 1 ml of caffeine. It is best for normal people not to exceed 3 cups a day. Although there is no evidence that it is harmful to the baby, it should be moderately drunk or stopped for breastfeeding moms. The same is true for drinks such as cola.