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What can a nursing mother use to gain wieght
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I nursed 3 kids and never had to gain or lose weight. All I did was in the first couple months after giving birth, I ate healthy snacks in between meals if I became hungry. And I made sure to eat a well balanced diet. After giving birth, I was only 10 pounds away from my normal pre pregnant weight as almost all of it was baby and water weight. So if anyone is complainin to you that you are too skinny to be breast feeding, its a bunch of balony. If you have a high metabolism, you just won't put on extra weight and its not the weight on you thats healthy for baby but what you eat. So for healthy snacks, I made muffins made with shredded carrots and zucchini, I had apple slices with peanut butter on them or some other fruit and I'd eat this middle of night if hungry while up feeding a newborn. As your baby gets older and starts eating some cereals but still nursing, you keep eating your usual diet but don't overeat cus its all gonna settle on you and it doesnt give baby any extra nutrition. Theres only so much nutrition in every meal you eat. The daily nutritional needs for baby depending on baby eating regularly and eating well and keeping it down and you eating twice as much is not going to change things for baby. Look at the skinny nursing moms and the over weight ones and you'll see no malnourished babies. Most babies are either going to look roly poly or skinny, depending on what is in the genes from parents or grandparents at that age. I had one chubby babe and two skinny ones. The skinnies were well within healthy range according to Dr. So unless Your Dr. has told you that you need to gain weight and told you how, then don't worry about it.
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