Care for the baby is not only in sleepless nights and the regular change of diapers. An important role in the struggle for the health of the baby is balanced and varied nutrition of his mother, because it directly affects the benefits of mother's milk. Eating them, the baby gets all the necessary nutrients for its development.
Take, for example, a well-known storehouse of vitamins - apples that you need and can eat while nursing. It is important to consider that their varieties with red pigment can cause a very undesirable allergic reaction in the child, so it is preferable to eat green apples. But it can also happen that in the first months of the baby's life from the apple, eaten by the nursing mother in raw form, his tummy will begin to ache and gazik will appear. Of course, such a restless state of the baby can also be explained by the immaturity of its gastrointestinal tract, and not to provoke the appearance of such "excruciating" phenomena in a baby's best to stick to a diet for a while. One of its items are baked apples with breastfeeding.
Baked apples for nursing mothers: and what's the use of what?
In addition to the fact that baked in the oven apples for nursing - a preventative against colic and gas formation in the baby, it is also a very tasty and healthy dessert. Its advantage lies in the fact that, baking, the apple not only keeps the maximum amount of vitamins (A, C, E, PP, B1, B2, B6, B9, etc.) and minerals (copper, calcium, magnesium, nickel, iodine, manganese, phosphorus, zinc, and in this form apples are especially rich in iron and potassium), but also under the influence of temperature is filled with other useful chemicals.
In addition, apples baked during breastfeeding have a positive effect on the entire body of the mother, including:
- restore the composition of lymph and blood, which is very important in the postpartum period;
- support the health of the heart muscles and participate in the process of natural regulation of blood pressure;
- reduce the level of cholesterol in the blood;
- have anti-inflammatory effect on the body;
- due to the high content of fiber and pectin help to reduce weight, improving metabolic processes;
- prevent constipation and relieve them by diluting the contents of the intestine;
- prevent the appearance of flatulence;
- They are used in the treatment of dysbacteriosis and restore digestion;
- improve the work of the liver and kidneys;
- have a beneficial effect on the condition of the skin, tighten it and help smooth out fine wrinkles.
As you can see, baked apples for a nursing mother are a useful and tasty remedy that ensures a quiet behavior of the baby. A few extra calories, compared with a fresh green apple, with such dignity of delicacies does not count.