Many women, having learned of their «interesting situation», hasten to exclude maximum usual foods and products from their diet, fearing they might damage an unborn child.

Pregnancy is not a cause for rejection of usual diet. Any dramatic change in food habits affect metabolism. Therefore, strict restrictive diets during pregnancy and lactation are not justified in most cases.

Very often these or that products are excluded completely unmotivated, just for reinsurance.

Main - without preservatives

In fact, there are few absolute bans. These are products containing preservatives - industrial meat and canned fish with a long-term storage. Those with a phrase «without preservatives» can be eaten. For the same reason, due to presence of preservatives, you should avoid sweet soda water. Chocolate, smoked sausages, very strong black coffee and tea and whole cow’s milk are also not recommended.

Beware of milk!

Nursing mothers should avoid whole milk, although it is still better not to drink it during pregnancy. It contains too much allergenic protein. Its fat content does not matter - 3.5% or 0.5%. Any milk available for sale is whole. However, you still can use milk in cooking, add it to coffee or tea, drink after boiling. In addition, dairy products, sour cream, cottage cheese, yogurt, kefir easily fill a need in milk.

You can consume canned foods without preservatives - home-made, vegetable, caviar, but be careful. Sweets are not contraindicated in reasonable limits. Red or exotic fruits and juices should also be attributed to the category of delicacies during pregnancy.

Fans of oranges, tangerines and grapefruits should not exclude them from a diet. You can eat everything, just do not eat a kg per day.

If fried and fatty foods are banned

When pregnant women are prohibited to eat fried, fatty and spicy, it does not mean they should move on boiled fresh food. Just underdo meat, fish or potatoes to the rough skin and do not abuse chips. Eat ham instead of bacon and replace chili with mustard.

How much to drink

Drinking regime should not be too strict. Drink as much fluid as you used to. Of course, if there are no specific, motivated medical contraindications. Nursing mothers should not limit themselves in drinking at all. And be sure to drink a glass of water, compote, tea with milk, juice 30 minutes before and half an hour after nursing.

Mother’s diet and baby’s allergy

You should remember that a baby’s allergic reaction occurs within 2-3 hours after mother ate something, and no later than 12 hours. That is, if today he has a rash or gases, you should not blame an orange you ate yesterday in the morning. Look for the cause in your breakfast or dinner. Another reason not to exaggerate importance of diet when breastfeeding - in fact, breast milk’s composition, among other external environment factors, affects just 15-20% of baby’s health, no more. Therefore, there is no point in exposing yourself to severe diets. If mother is nursing only 1-2 times a day, and a baby receives formula rest of the time, you can afford more luxuries. The older a baby becomes, the less influence mother’s diet has on him. Breast milk as the only food is meaningful only up to 4-5 months. As a protection factor influencing child’s immunity - up to six months. After 6 months a child receives nothing new in terms of biological plan. And the need to continue breast-feeding is purely psychological.

Anti-cellulite diet

During pregnancy, risk of cellulitis is increased, especially while hereditary predisposition to it. Therefore, your diet must be full-value, and at the same time anti-cellulite.

* Reduce consumption of fried foods, fatty meats and cheeses, sausages, pates, pickles, marinades, high-calorie confectionery products, particularly with  cream.

* Cook poultry without skin.

* Avoid food substitutes with dyes, flavors and taste imitators.

* Prefer coarse flour bread.

* Dairy products - lean, fish, poultry and meat - without sauce.

* Eat more raw vegetables, especially lettuce and cabbage, greens, fruits, cereals, porridges cooked on water, fish, seafood, vegetable oils.

During pregnancy, you can take cold and contrast shower, make light sparing massage, use anti-cellulite creams. However, avoid anti-cellulite belts and slimming pants even in the early stages. And do not rush to start losing weight immediately after childbirth. In the first year after childbirth, the body has not yet recovered- its endocrine alteration is continuing. You can arrange only fasting days and gymnastics. To avoid bloating, do not eat too much black bread, beans, grapes, and sauerkraut.