What is a Healthy Breastfeeding Diet?
A breastfeeding diet is the appropriate regimen of food and vitamins that a nursing mother needs to take in, for maintaining her health and the nutritive content of her milk; in this way also maintaining the health of her baby. The average output of mother’s milk is from 23 to 27 ounces daily, each quart containing roughly 300 mg. of calcium. Your breastfeeding diet should address the production of this milk and give you a minimum of 500 calories over the average, normal caloric output. In the post-natal period of maternity, as it was during pregnancy, the body is without mercy when it comes to providing for the baby’s needs. Before anything else, it concentrates on producing milk for the baby even if the mother’s needs should go unmet. The quality and the quantity of mother’s milk remains more or less constant, regardless of the state of nutrition of the mother. If the nursing mother does not take in enough food in her breastfeeding diet to make up for the accelerated consumption and
