A nursing mother’s diet should be high in calories (3,200 kcal), balanced, and easily digestible.

• A nursing mother’s diet should be high in calories (3,200 kcal), balanced, and easily digestible.
• Spicy, fried, fatty, smoked foods, canned foods, alcohol, sausages (smoked, boiled-smoked, boiled), and allergens for the child (chocolate, citrus fruits, coffee) should be excluded from the diet.
• A new mother should eat 5-6 times a day.
• Food should be consumed 20-30 minutes before breastfeeding.
• The daily fluid intake should be 2-2.5 liters. Herbal teas, drinking water, dried fruit compotes, and fermented milk products in the amount of 200-300 ml are recommended.
• To prevent anemia, it is recommended to take up to 60 mg of iron per day, including foods rich in this trace element in the nursing mother’s diet (liver, legumes, hematogen, buckwheat, green salad, spinach, dill, parsley).
• Food should be consumed 20-30 minutes before breastfeeding.
• It is necessary that her diet includes all the main food groups: meat and fish, milk and dairy products; eggs; bread and bakery products, cereals, pasta; vegetable oils; butter; vegetables, fruits, berries, fruit and vegetable juices; sugar and confectionery.

• Lean fish varieties (pike perch, carp, cod, hake, etc.) are recommended; it is also better to eat them boiled no more than 1-2 times a week.
• You can increase the amount of protein in your diet with cottage cheese and cheese. Milk and dairy products should be consumed in a heat-treated form: cheese cakes, cottage cheese casserole, condensed milk without sugar. Whole cow’s milk, an excess of which in the mother’s diet can cause allergic reactions in infants, should preferably be partially replaced with various fermented milk products (kefir, yogurt, fermented baked milk, etc.).
• It is very important that a nursing mother’s diet contains enough dietary fiber to stimulate intestinal motility. To this end, the daily menu should include a significant amount (at least 400 g) of fresh or heat-treated vegetables (carrots, beets, zucchini, pumpkin, etc.), about 300 g of fruits and berries (e.g., apples, pears, plums, currants, gooseberries, cherries), juices (200-300 ml), especially with pulp — both freshly prepared and canned (preferably intended for baby food). At the same time, it is not recommended to eat tropical fruits (except bananas) and fruits that are orange or red in color. Millet, buckwheat, and oat groats (it is better to alternate between them), whole grain bread, and especially dried fruits (prunes, dried apricots) are also rich in dietary fiber.
• The daily diet of nursing women should contain 25 g of butter and 15 g of vegetable oils (sunflower, corn, soybean, olive).
• Sugar and confectionery (preferably marshmallows, pastilles, marmalade) should be eaten in limited quantities, as they have an allergenic effect and contribute to fat deposition in the body.