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Simple Food Menu For Breastfeeding Mothers

healthy food for breastfeeding mothers

By Pota MoonPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
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Simple Food Menu For Breastfeeding Mothers
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A happy little family will feel more complete with the presence of a baby figure who will make your little family more perfect. A woman who has experienced being a mother will experience very significant physical and emotional changes, especially if the baby's health problems are then a mother is willing to do many things that will make the baby healthy and safe.

Likewise, when a baby will only get food intake from his mother's milk, a mother who is breastfeeding must be able to choose the food to be consumed selectively, because every food you will consume will have an impact on the health of your baby. One way that you can do to be able to choose healthy foods for breastfeeding mothers properly is by choosing foods that contain the five healthy and six perfect elements ranging from meat, eggs, vegetables, fruits, and so on that do not contain chemicals.

During breastfeeding, a healthy and balanced diet is very important. The food you consume should consist of foods rich in carbohydrates such as rice, various vegetables and fruits, foods that contain protein, and milk.

There are many choices of food menus that you can cook yourself at home to make simple food menus for nursing mothers, including the following.

  1. Every food menu that you will cook should not use spicy ingredients, so that it can make your baby have diarrhea, you can add spicy ingredients but only a little for taste.
  2. The food menu that you must be able to prepare to make your breast milk production become more is by making a menu of chicken meat that is still fresh, so that the protein and fat that the chicken has is still a lot. You can make a food menu from chicken meat by making clear chicken meat soup and so on.
  3. You can make food menus from papaya shoots which are believed to be able to fertilize the milk production you have.
  4. Besides being easy to find and not even difficult to process, eggs also contain protein and are rich in vitamin D which plays a role in bone formation. For those of you who are breastfeeding, it is recommended to eat eggs which also contain DHA with higher essential fatty acids.
  5. Breastfeeding mothers usually feel hungry quickly because what is consumed is also for the baby's milk intake. For that, there is nothing wrong if you serve delicious snacks that are also healthy like this green bean compote. Mung bean itself is a nutrient-rich food that is very good for the body.
  6. This fruit is known as a source of vitamin C which can provide freshness and fitness for the body. Oranges have a high enough antioxidant content so they can support the body to avoid various diseases. This orange fruit can also help you to be fresher and avoid anemia. In addition to these benefits, here are some other benefits when you consume various types of oranges.
  7. Chicken menu is known to be good for breastfeeding mothers who are on a diet program. Chicken itself contains protein and iron which are good for health. Protein will help and maintain almost all parts of the mother's body and also in small, ranging from muscles, brain, bones, heart, lungs, enzymes, and antibodies. To accompany the roasted chicken, Mama can eat vegetable pakcoy. Because it includes green vegetables, pakcoy is believed to contain various important nutrients that are good for the body. For Mama who is on a diet, Pakcoy can be the right choice. The reason is, every one cup or the equivalent of 70 grams of pakcoy only contains 9 calories.

Thus a menu review of the importance of maintaining a simple diet for nursing mothers and you can make your own at home. Visit barretoned to find more information in the form of videos, so you don't need to read anymore, just watch and listen to the video to get the information you want.

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