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Nutrion For Pregnant Women 1

Breastfeeding mothers should eat a healthy, nutritious diet rather than avoid specific foods. The document provides some tips for healthful eating such as limiting mercury-containing seafood and paying attention to how foods like caffeine affect the baby based on the mother's body cues. The nutrition requirements for breastfeeding are similar to pregnancy with some additional calorie needs to support lactation. Good sources of key nutrients like calcium, protein, iron and vitamins are listed.

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Nutrion For Pregnant Women 1

Breastfeeding mothers should eat a healthy, nutritious diet rather than avoid specific foods. The document provides some tips for healthful eating such as limiting mercury-containing seafood and paying attention to how foods like caffeine affect the baby based on the mother's body cues. The nutrition requirements for breastfeeding are similar to pregnancy with some additional calorie needs to support lactation. Good sources of key nutrients like calcium, protein, iron and vitamins are listed.

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Foods To Avoid

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There is no list of foods that people who are
breastfeeding should avoid altogether. Instead,
they should eat food that is healthful and pay

Breastfeed!
attention to cues from their body.Breast milk comes
from nutrients that pass into the blood. Many of the
potentially dangerous ingredients that could cross
the placenta during pregnancy do not get to the
breastfeeding baby.Some tips that can support
healthful eating include: IMPORTANCE OF BREASTFEEDING
Limiting consumption of seafood that may contain AND PROPER NUTRITION FOR

“Mother’s milk, developed through mercury. LACTATING WOMEN.


Paying attention to how caffeine affects the baby.
evolution with thousands of ingredients to
When a person who is breastfeeding drinks coffee,
build the human brain, body and immune
the baby will only get a very tiny dose of caffeine in
system, is incomparable with a man-made the breast milk, but this could be enough to affect
product of a couple dozen ingredients that their sleep.
are non-human and in wrong proportions.” Monitoring how the baby reacts to the diet, and
making changes according to the needs of both
the baby and the person who is breastfeeding.

Submitted by:
Manila, Mica
Mejia, Jemimah
Valledo, Denielle
Calcium WHAT TO EAT WHEN WHAT IS SO GOOD
BREASTFEEDING?
ABOUT
The suggested daily intake of calcium for breast-
feeding mothers is 1,300 milligrams per day. The nutrition requirements for breast-feeding are
Reading nutrition labels can help ensure that
you are getting enough calcium.The best
similar to those for pregnancy, and women are
recommended to continue eating similarly to how
BREASTFEEDING?
sources of calcium are: they were eating during their pregnancy. However, Breast milk provides all the nutrients
Milk a breast-feeding woman needs 200 more calories
Calcium-fortified orange juice that a baby needs for the first six
Yogurt per day than she did during pregnancy, and it is
Hard cheese
Calcium-fortified tofu
important that the calories come from nutritious months of life to grow and
foods. Lactating mothers diet should includes; develop.Breast milk continues to

Protein provide high-quality nutrients and


helps protect against infection up to
While breast-feeding you should eat two to three
servings of protein each day. A serving is equal to two years of age or more.Breast milk
3 to 4 ounces of meat, fish or poultry. Good protects babies from infections and
sources of protein include; illnesses.
Meat Milk and yogurt
Poultry Tofu
Seafood Dried beans
Eggs Cheese

Iron
Iron is also important for breast-feeding mothers.
If you are 18 years of age or younger, you should
get 10 milligrams of iron per day. For those over 19,
the suggested daily intake is 9 milligrams. Good Breastfeeding promotes the
sources of iron include:
emotional relationship, or bonding,
Meat Dried beans
between mother and infant.
Poultry Dried fruit
Seafood Egg yolks

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