During breastfeeding, you must follow a certain diet, so as not to harm the health of the baby. Indeed, the quality of breast milk depends on the nutrition and lifestyle of a nursing mother. Many foods in the mother’s diet can have a negative effect on the well-being of the baby. For example, such a dessert, seemingly harmless at first glance, like ice cream.
Is ice cream for nursing mothers
To understand whether ice cream can be introduced into the diet of lactating women, you need to figure out which ingredients are included in its composition. Unfortunately, over the past decades, the composition of ice cream has undergone significant changes. Previously, it was based on natural milk, sugar and animal fats. Such products did not harm the health of the mother and baby.
In modern production, animal fats are replaced with synthetic vegetable fats, which are deposited in the body and contribute to the development of atherosclerosis, obesity, and even malignant tumors.
To extend the shelf life, stabilizers and emulsifiers are added to the ice cream, which are not safe for the health of the infant. This also applies to other food additives present in ice cream (colorants, flavor enhancers, flavors). It is no secret that they are very harmful to the health of not only babies, but also adults.
Based on the foregoing, it can be concluded that it is better for a nursing mother to abandon the use of industrial ice cream during breastfeeding so as not to endanger the baby's health. This prohibition does not apply to ice cream made at home from natural products.
Homemade Ice Cream Recipes
Ice cream perfectly lifts mood and vitality. Therefore, a nursing mother can occasionally indulge in a favorite treat made by herself. Do not add various additives to the milk (berries, fruits, marmalade, etc.), since they can cause a newborn allergic reaction or diathesis.
It should be noted that the use of ice cream during breastfeeding increases the percentage milk fatthat can provoke gastric colic, loose stools in a child. Therefore, in the first 3-4 months of the baby's life, it is better to refrain from this product, and in the future, observe the measure.
You can use an ice cream maker to make homemade ice cream.It is an apparatus that turns an initial mixture into ice cream by cooling and stirring. In the absence of such a device, the prepared mixture should be placed in the freezer for about 12 hours, stirring every 3-4 hours.
Goat Milk Ice Cream
Goat milk much more useful than cow. It contains a lot of nutrients and trace elements. In addition, goat milk is a hypoallergenic product.
Ingredients: a liter of milk, 3 egg yolks (preferably homemade), 150 g of sugar, 1.5 tbsp of wheat flour.
Cooking:
- Mix the yolks thoroughly with sugar and flour and dilute them in a small portion of milk.
- Heat the remaining milk slightly and attach the cooked mass to it.
- Keep on low heat, stirring continuously, until fully thickened.
- Place the cooled mass in the ice cream maker.
Skim ice cream
Ice cream made without cream is low in calories, so it will not affect the fat content of breast milk.
Ingredients: a liter of milk, 5 yolks, 2 cups of sugar, 100 g of butter, 1 tsp of starch.
Cooking:
- Heat the milk over low heat, add the butter and bring it to a boil.
- Combine the yolks, sugar and starch into a homogeneous mass. Dilute the mixture to the consistency of sour cream.
- Slowly introduce it into boiled milk and butter, stirring constantly so that the yolks do not curl.
- Bring the mass to a boil again and cool in cold water, and then place in the ice cream maker.
Ice cream
Ingredients: 0.5 L high fat cream (over 35%), 100 ml. milk, 5 yolks, 150 g sugar, a pinch of salt and vanilla, 1 teaspoon of starch.
Cooking:
- Dissolve salt and sugar in warm milk.
- After removing milk from the heat, add the yolks to it and beat thoroughly.
- Put the mixture on low heat and simmer until thickened.
- Dilute starch in a small amount of milk and attach to the mass.
- Place the pan in cold water and add the whipped cream to the milk.
- Put the cooled dessert in the ice cream maker.
Video: Making natural vanilla ice cream at home
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Video: How to make ice cream at home (without ice cream)
If a nursing mother really wants to eat ice cream, and there is no way to cook it on her own, occasionally you can afford to buy dessert in the store, carefully choosing the choice. First of all, you need to pay attention to the date of manufacture and expiration date, since an expired product is clearly harmful to health. Crumpled or damaged packaging may indicate a violation of the rules for storage or transportation of the product. You should refuse chocolate, fruit dessert, ice cream in chocolate icing and with various toppings. It is better to opt for milk ice cream with a fat content of 3.5%. If its use does not cause a negative reaction in the child, you can try ice cream or cream ice cream with a fat content of 8-15%.
In any case, ice cream should be introduced into the diet of a nursing mother carefully, carefully monitoring the baby's reaction. If the first attempts fail, you can repeat them after a while.
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It is a pity that I did not know this before, and when I was breastfeeding my son, I ate ice cream in large quantities .. Thank God that this did not affect his health in any way.
Well .. And my sister still didn’t believe me when I told her that it’s better not to eat ice cream .. I won’t repeat her mistakes and will not eat ice cream in any case.
If you can’t eat ice cream, then it will really be better to refuse it. Although I love him very much, I better tolerate a little, but for the child I will be calm.
Of course it’s a pity that you can’t eat ice cream, it’s better to refrain from it for several months than to experience the consequences .. But it seems to me that abstinence will not be so difficult for me.
You can eat ice cream, but cooked at home, without additives or preservatives!
The diet of the mother does not affect the composition of breast milk. Under different living conditions and different nutritional patterns, the milk will be approximately the same for a nursing mother from a rich Scandinavian country and a mother from Indian slums. Nature took care of this. You need to eat properly in order to maintain your own health, because during GV, useful substances come from your mother’s body to milk. So that their supply is not depleted, the nursing mother must eat right.
Do not write nonsense.
The diet also affects lactation! With poor nutrition, milk becomes almost like water, and maybe even ceased to be produced. Examples from life - mass.
And if food did not affect milk, then there would be neither food allergies in infants, nor gas from any cabbage-apples.
Why a heading with a shameful mistake?
Ice cream is possible, only as natural as possible. There are such things on the shelves.
It is on the composition that you need to pay attention, and not on the expiration date
It is suitable for many months, because it is frozen.
And ice cream is not eaten in kilograms 3 times a day, so that it has a negative effect. It is much more harmful if the mother is nervous because she wants a half portion of ice cream, but supposedly not.