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Slide Notes

Everything is about food

Keep up with the energy to make milk

Need to eat more calories, but what kinds of foods

Baby sensitivities so need more but often docs and others are telling you to cut out foods

Mom is more sensitive after birth
reacts more strongly to blood sugar swings
slower thyroid predisposes you to fatigue
The foods you eat and the way you eat them can exacerbate or improve health

The good news!!
Inform
Know what to buy
How to cook it
What to cook
Eating patterns

Less exhaustion and depression and MORE ENJOYMENT

Nutrition -Part 1

Published on Oct 11, 2020

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Feeding Plan

Part One
Everything is about food

Keep up with the energy to make milk

Need to eat more calories, but what kinds of foods

Baby sensitivities so need more but often docs and others are telling you to cut out foods

Mom is more sensitive after birth
reacts more strongly to blood sugar swings
slower thyroid predisposes you to fatigue
The foods you eat and the way you eat them can exacerbate or improve health

The good news!!
Inform
Know what to buy
How to cook it
What to cook
Eating patterns

Less exhaustion and depression and MORE ENJOYMENT

Heal the Mother to Heal the Baby

You are what you eat and your baby is what you eat

Self Assessment

  • Health History
  • Current History
  • Lifetime Digestion
  • Current Digestion
  • Lifetime Stooling Patterns
  • Current Stooling Patterns

Food Sensitivities

Take the Test

Milk Making Foods

For the Breastfeeding Mother
The basic premise of Lact foods are anything that supports making more milk.

diet

warming
herbs
easily digestible
eaten with presence and mindfulness

soups
broths
soaked grains
barley
oatmeal
soaked nuts
spicy foods, tumeric

sugary foods
milk production removes sugar from the blood
grains
legumes
coconut
almonds
ses seeds
apricots
dates
figs
sweet pota
fennel
lettuce
carrots
beet root

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Rachel Simpson

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