Watermelon is very useful and tasty berry. However in certain cases its consumption raises questions. Whether mom can eat watermelon when breastfeeding the child?
After the child's birth the food of mother undergoes significant changes, the health of the kid and his mood strongly depends on her diet. At the same time consumption of watermelons can both bring benefit, and to do much harm.
If watermelon fresh and ripe, then it positively affects an organism not only mother, but also the child. And if nedospely or spoiled, then there can be problems.
Doctors assure also that the use of a large number of watermelons can break a water balance in an organism of mother and worsen quality of breast milk. And it in turn will lead to swelling of intestines and gripes at the kid.
But at the same time concrete contraindications to application of watermelons for the nursing mother don't exist. This berry brings only benefit. But it needs all the same to be eaten watermelons in limited quantities.
Each feeding mom has to solve independently, whether she should eat watermelon or not. If no problems after its use arise, it is possible to include it in the food allowance safely. But it is necessary to watch closely that the child didn't have an allergy to this berry.
It is necessary to enter watermelon into a food allowance of the nursing mother gradually. For a start she needs to eat a small piece of pulp in the morning and to feed with breast milk of the kid. Then throughout the day to observe it. If no allergic reactions appeared and the condition of the child didn't worsen, then it is possible to use safely watermelon every day. But it is better to do it only in the first half of day and in small amounts.