Spicy food and breastfeeding

All the pregnant women must follow a healthy diet to provide essential vitamins and nutrients to your baby, as well as avoiding complications in pregnancy, but also after birth a healthy diet is very important, especially when deciding provide the benefits of breastfeeding your baby.

Many women often wonder if this means avoid spicy foods, while they are breastfeeding, however according to some nutritionists a diet full of flavor and aroma, it can positively influence the baby in the future, since spicy foods and other spices in the diet can stimulate the baby to accept tastes and smells before starting to try solid foods.

An example of this are the mothers of China, Mexico, Thailand and India whose Diets are based on spices and peppers, typical of their food traditions, as well as many of these women continue to eat spicy foods during pregnancy and after birth with little or no harm to their children.

In a study published in the journal Pediatrics 1991, the lactating reacted positively to mothers who received a garlic capsule in the day, translating into sessions of Breastfeeding longer, with which infants apparently consumed more milk when they smelled garlic, the study concluded

In another study, mothers who drank carrot juice During pregnancy, the children subsequently enjoyed the taste of the carrot when they first incorporated the food.

Healthy tips: it is very simple to detect if a food affects the baby when he is breastfed, since if he becomes restless, cries or seems to be uncomfortable after the Breastfeeding, since in this case he himself is telling you that he likes it and that he does not.

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