Re: Wanted: advice from breastfeeding mums about food qty

[Guest guest]

I'm nursing a 3 month old. Here's what I ate today:

8 ounces raw goat yogurt with crispy almonds

Lunch was roast chicken, sliced cucumbers and an apple

Dinner was Avocado salad, sauteed asparagus with shiitake mushrooms and

about 8 slices raw fish

I'm trying to lost 20 pounds.

Elainie

[Guest guest]

oh boy - this is hard.

i started learning about NN when i was pregnant, so my comparison will be

pretty lame, but here goes:

typical day before pregnancy/NN:

bowl of cocoa pebbles (gak!) with crap milk. possibly two.

bowl of fresh fruit salad with stupid amounts of whipped cream from a can

for lunch.

meat and starch for dinner, and likely a salad.

snacks - toast with butter. at least it was sourdough...

[ok guys. stop snickering. i mean it!]

typical day now that i have a brain - i'll use yesterday as an example:

breakfast: large kefir smoothie: 1.5c kefir, an egg yolk, some coconut

cream, and cinnamon.

snack: coconut " candy " a la that recipe i sent around and some cheese.

lunch: (i was hungry!) a half-pound of happy ground beef, cheese, and a

pile of lacto-fermented veggies

dinner: (ahem) the OTHER half-pound of happy ground beef, cheese, and

another pile of lacto-fermented veggies

throughout the day: a half gallon of raw happy milk

yesterday was pretty unoriginal, i guess, but that's what i was hungry for.

today i had the same breakfast and snack, but a happy pork chop and yet

another pile of lacto-fermented veggies for lunch and beef ribs and kale

and cabbage for dinner, and a bottle of raw happy milk.

i probably ate more than that even when amber was younger (she's a year old

now and does eat some food).

for your relative calculations, i'm 6' tall and weighed a healthy-looking

179 before i got pregnant. right now i'm still 6' tall and weigh 188.

-katja

At 07:06 PM 4/4/2004, you wrote:

>Hi all b/f mums,

>

>I;ve got a client who's b/f'ing and who isn;t eating any near

>enough. As well as moving her onto NT foods which are of course way

>more nutrient dense than what she's eating now, I wanted to get an

>idea of how much more food she would need than if she wasn't

>b/f'ing. What would you all eat in an average day, and is it much

>different to when you're not feeding?

>

>thanks a lot, deb

[Guest guest]

I believe for nursing you need around 2200 calories. You can do a web

search and find more information. I just always try to have healthy snacks

and eat when I'm hungry. Nursing moms don't always have the time to spend

in the kitchen...so it was important for me to have food I could just grab

out of the fridge or make within a few minutes for the days when the baby

was teething, growth spurt or just needed more care. Which was most days

for over a year

Kayte

Wanted: advice from breastfeeding mums about food qty

Hi all b/f mums,

I;ve got a client who's b/f'ing and who isn;t eating any near enough. As

well as moving her onto NT foods which are of course way more nutrient dense

than what she's eating now, I wanted to get an idea of how much more food

she would need than if she wasn't b/f'ing. What would you all eat in an

average day, and is it much different to when you're not feeding?

thanks a lot, deb

[Guest guest]

It depends on how old the baby is and how often they are feeding. I eat about

what most average persons eat, but my daughter is 2 and a half. She nurses 10

to 12 times a day (I know she's a nur nur aholic). In the early days I ate

constantly. I was also always thirsty and drank vast amounts of waters. Cheese

and boiled eggs are great quicky things to eat. I ate enough for two people and

still dropped forty pounds in the first 6 weeks.

Amy Waters

Atlanta,GA

Wanted: advice from breastfeeding mums about food qty

Hi all b/f mums,

I;ve got a client who's b/f'ing and who isn;t eating any near

enough. As well as moving her onto NT foods which are of course way

more nutrient dense than what she's eating now, I wanted to get an

idea of how much more food she would need than if she wasn't

b/f'ing. What would you all eat in an average day, and is it much

different to when you're not feeding?

thanks a lot, deb

[Guest guest]

" Deb " <deb@f...> wrote:

What would you all eat in an average day, and is it much

> different to when you're not feeding?

A b/f mom should eat as much as a working man. In other words,

whenever the craving hits, you eat, as long as it is good stuff (ie.

not chips and chocolate bars). After b/f three kids, I can say that I

ate as much as my husband did who worked outside. The tough part came

when I quit b/f and had to shift down in my food intake.

Gayle

[Guest guest]

According to La Leche League, a breastfeeding mom needs about 500 calories

more per day than her regular diet.

~ Carma ~

mom to Noa 8.5 yog ~ Colter 6 yob ~ r 2.5 yob ~ Mica 8 mog ~ wife 18.5

yrs to Russ

God has given you all you need to train and educate your children at home -

it's in real books and real life. ~ Clay son