Nutrients for Lactating Women
Recommended daily allowances of nutrients for lactating women are given here. Daily allowances for various nutrients – before conception, during pregnancy, and while you are breastfeeding your baby are different for each phase.
Eating right before pregnancy helps in getting pregnant faster and ensures healthy pregnancy along with healthy baby. Eating for two doesn't mean that you have to eat twice as much. But eating right kind of food is more important. You just need 300 extra calories per day while pregnant and 400 extra calories while nursing.
Nutrients for Lactating Women
Kilocalories - 2600
Vitamin A (mcg) - 1300
Vitamin B6 (mg)- 2.0
Riboflavin (mg)- 1.6
Thiamin (mg)- 1.4
Vitamin D (mcg)- 5
Vitamin E (mg)- 19
Vitamin K (mcg)- 90
Calcium (mg)- 1000
Folic acid (mcg)- 500
Iodine (mcg)- 290
Iron (mg ferrous iron)- 9
Magnesium (mg)- 310 - 320
Niacin (mg)- 17
Phosphorous (mg)- 700
Protein (g)- 60
Zinc (mg)- 12
To make sure that you and your baby are getting all the essential nutrients in the right amount, you need to monitor your diet very closely. Pregnancy nutrition is the invariable part of the healthy pregnancy.
If you are vegetarian you should make additional dietary changes. To get appropriate dietary information and to choose the right kind of food read our article on the vegetarian diet during pregnancy.
As pregnancy requires additional nutrients, to fill in any nutritional gaps daily prenatal vitamin are usually recommended by your doctor or health care provider.
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