Vegetables for breastfeeding Moms

Someday your infant might get your laugh and your dry wit, but for now he/she'll get something even more important from you: the nutrients they need to grow up strong and healthy.

A breastfeeding mom can eat just about anything she wants, so it's not necessary to avoid any specific types of food while you are nursing your baby. Your body will take the necessary components to make healthy milk from the nutrients that are stored up in your bones, tissues, and fat.

A healthy, well-balanced meal plan that includes a variety of foods is the goal of a breastfeeding diet. Many of the foods that you eat will travel into your breast milk, and can influence the composition, taste and color of your milk. It is believed that breastfed babies get used to the taste of foods in their mother's diets, and even develop preferences for those types of foods later in life.

Thus, Vitamin A is necessary for healthy growth and development, especially of the eyes and skin. Vitamin A is found in red, orange, and yellow fruits and vegetables, dark leafy green vegetables, liver and dairy products. Vitamin C is essential for healthy bones, teeth, ligaments, and blood vessels. It can be found in tomatoes and dark green vegetables. Dark leafy greens (broccoli, spinach, kale, lettuce), carrots, peas, squash, peppers, and sweet potatoes. Vegetables should make up a large part of your diet!


Make photos of Mom, eating vegetables. Write about the favourite vegetable dishes of your family.