Dietary issues during lactation

The diet during the auxiliary breastfeeding period has a great impact on the physical development of our baby, so we recommend that everyone should pay attention to what foods to eat during the auxiliary breastfeeding period. Generally, if we want to increase the protein in breast milk in our daily life, we can drink more milk and goat milk, and we should eat more calcium-containing foods, which can increase the calcium content in breast milk and promote the baby's bone development.

Breast milk is the best food for babies. Many wives face the problem of insufficient breast milk, and new fathers are really worried when they see this. How can we change this situation? The best way is to add catalysts to breast milk. But what to add and how to add it are often difficult for new fathers to start. In fact, there is no unique solution, you can choose according to the actual situation.

1. Ingredients for lettuce seed porridge: 15 grams of lettuce seeds, 6 grams of licorice, and 100 grams of polished rice. Preparation method: Crush the lettuce seeds, add licorice, and then add 200 ml of water and cook until there is 100 ml of water left, then filter the juice and remove the residue. Put the filtered juice and polished rice into a pot, add water and cook until the rice is soft. Efficacy: Lettuce seeds are the seeds of the lettuce plant of the Asteraceae family. The best ones are those that are full, dry and free of impurities. It is bitter and cold in nature, and can promote lactation and facilitate urination. Licorice is sweet and mild in nature, and can harmonize the stomach, relieve urgency, and coordinate various medicines. Japonica rice porridge is known as "the best thing in the world to nourish people." The combination of these three ingredients is a very good lactation-promoting medicinal diet.

2. Ingredients for stewing pangolin with hen: 1 old hen, 60 grams of pangolin (processed), appropriate amounts of onion, ginger, garlic, five-spice powder, and refined salt. Preparation method: Remove the feathers and internal organs of the hen, smash the pangolin into small pieces and stuff them into the chicken's stomach. Put it into the pot, add water and seasonings, and stew until the meat is tender and boneless. Pangolin is salty and cool in nature, and can regulate menstruation and promote lactation. Li Shizhen wrote in Compendium of Materia Medica that "after women eat pangolins and Panax notoginseng, their milk will flow continuously, which also means that the effect is rapid." Chicken is rich in nutrients, sweet, warm and mild in nature, and can replenish both qi and blood.

3. Ingredients for peanut porridge: 30 grams of peanuts, 8 grams of tongcao, 12 grams of fenugreek, 50 grams of polished rice, and appropriate amount of brown sugar. Preparation method: First boil the tongcao and fenugreek, remove the residue and keep the juice. Then put the medicinal juice, peanuts and glutinous rice into the pot, add water and boil. After the peanuts and rice are cooked, add brown sugar and it is ready to eat.

(4) Maintain the nurse’s good mood. After giving birth, mothers will experience greater mood swings due to physiological and environmental factors, and often become depressed, which will restrict the secretion of breast milk. Medical experiments have shown that when a mother is depressed, her milk secretion will decrease sharply. Therefore, you have an obligation to create a good living environment for your wife and pay attention to her mental health at all times.

(5)Diet therapy. On the basis of taking the above measures, combining them with lactation-promoting foods, the effect will be more obvious. Foods such as pig's trotters and peanuts can promote the secretion of milk. A balanced diet is an important rule for breastfeeding mothers. Breastfeeding mothers should also pay great attention to water supplementation. Since mothers often feel thirsty, they can replenish water while breastfeeding, or drink more soup drinks such as fresh fish soup, chicken soup, fresh milk and boiled water. Just replenish water moderately so that the milk supply will be both sufficient and nutritious. It is difficult for mothers who are eager to lose weight in order to regain their figure to maintain their milk supply. It is recommended that breastfeeding mothers wait until the breastfeeding period is over before controlling their diet to lose weight. In fact, breastfeeding already consumes a lot of calories. As long as mothers do not eat too much and do some postpartum exercise, they can avoid fat accumulation.

After reading the content introduced in this article, we should all know that mothers should eat more nutritious foods during breastfeeding, such as eating more fish and vegetables, and drinking more pork bone soup, which is helpful for the development of your baby, and you can eat some milk-producing foods.