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Originally Posted by Azure
If you're nursing....I second ignoring our advice for now and seeing a doctor or even better a nutritionist.
Because I seriously have no idea what a mother should eat when she's nursing.
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Okay.
But really, it's not that scary. I take multi-vitamins and Omega vitamins. Drink a ton of water. And the biggies are pretty obvious - limit intake of toxins like alcohol, high mercury fish, caffiene, etc. If my diet isn't nutritionally "complete", as I understand it, basically all the nutrients will preferentially go to the milk and it's the Mom who becomes deprived, not the baby. A good example is Iron and Calcium - this gets "stolen" from the Mom to provide for the baby.
And they recommend restricting weight loss to 1-2 lbs/week to limit the release of "environmental toxins" from the fat stores into your system.
Anywho... I'm not totally in the dark about what's safe for me and my daughter, nutrition-wise. It's more how to actually acheive the 1-2lbs/week of weight loss that I'm struggling with!!