Can anyone tell me how many calories I NEED to eat in order to breast feed successfully? Is there a magic number?
I have lost weight before just simply counting calories. So can i count calories and eat less that 1700 a day while breast feeding? Is it healthy for the baby?
Julie
i'm not really sure, but i'm not watching my calories, i just try to eat well and when i'm hungry, in fact i often have food that are "fatty", and i'm back to my pre-pregnancy size... so i wouldn't worry too much about trying to lose weight besides i read somewhere that you need some body fat to help produce milk
You need to be taking in about 1800-2200 (or more) calories each day while BF'ing. Taking in less than 1500-1800 calories each day may put your milk supply at risk.
When you were PG your body put extra weight on you that it will now use to make milk...you can lose weight while still eating healthy while BF'ing. I lost lots of weight while I BF both my kids...one for 6mnths the other for 11mnths HTH
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Ditto. . .to put it a different way, you need 500 more calories than what you normally take in. . .but you should not even be focusing on weight loss at all right now. Eat a healthy and varied diet, drink plenty of water and that should pretty much take care of it.
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