Breastfeeding, does mother really need to eat a lot?

Breast-feeding mothers are really stressed. In addition to all kinds of questions about the quality of milk, there is also a view that makes mothers who are eager to recover as soon as possible particularly collapse-"breastfeeding mothers should eat more and eat very nutritious." Is this really right?

Then let's discuss the physiological mechanism of milk production first.

Many people think that milk is derived from blood. In fact, the relationship between milk and blood can be explained by this sentence: milk is equivalent to food on the production line, blood phase is the supplier of raw materials, and breast cells are actually food processing plants. Almost all substances in milk are synthesized and secreted by breast cells, not "changed" by blood.

Female mammary glands will develop rapidly when stimulated by estrogen and progesterone during pregnancy. From the third trimester of pregnancy to lactation, under the influence of prolactin secreted by pituitary gland, breast cells will synthesize various protein and nutrients in milk and secrete milk. In this process, blood will pass through arteries and capillaries, bringing oxygen and nutrition to the breast.

Red blood cells in the blood can't reach the breast through the blood vessel wall under normal circumstances. Only white blood cells responsible for immune function can cross this checkpoint. These cells do not contain hemoglobin.

Relying on this mechanism, blood only provides nutrition for the breast, and other substances in the blood cannot enter the breast in normal physiological process. This can also be explained as the so-called "blood-milk barrier". The so-called blood-milk barrier is a substance that selectively allows substances to pass between blood and emulsion. This property can be understood as what we often call "specificity". Is to let some substances pass through, from the blood into the emulsion, others can't pass through. For example, hemoglobin cannot pass through the barrier.

Milk is produced by breast cells, which will "intelligently" choose raw materials of milk to "synthesize" milk. This wise choice will not lower the standard because of the low quality and variety of raw materials, but the human body will try its best to meet the baby's needs anyway.

There used to be a particularly famous research report. Experts from the American Pediatric Association collected the milk of mothers with adequate nutrition absorption in developed countries and compared it with the milk of mothers with food shortage in poor areas in Africa. The results showed that almost all nutrients were the same except carbohydrates and the ratio of protein to fat.

This discovery has great guiding significance for breastfeeding in poor areas. In order to make children in poverty-stricken areas have better physique, the World Health Organization suggests extending breastfeeding in these areas to at least two years old.

Seeing this, you must understand what I want to express. In other words, even if your body doesn't take enough nutrients for a few days, milk will only be concentrated, and the proportion of the three nutrients will change slightly, but the quality of milk can be guaranteed.

Finally, to sum up, if you want to influence the yield and quality of milk in your diet, you can try the following three points:

First of all, it is good to have a balanced diet. There is no need to deliberately increase greasy food, but it will lead to too many ester components in milk, resulting in milk siltation;

Second, pay attention to reducing spicy stimulation;

Thirdly, milk production is related to liquid intake. Ensure drinking water and increase the intake of vegetable soup, fruit juice, porridge, etc. It has a significant effect on improving yield. Drinking a cup of warm water before feeding will feel good. Try it.

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