What Should I Make For A Breastfeeding Friend?
November 27, 2009 by Guest Author
Filed under Breast Feeding Supplies
My boyfriend’s sister-in-law is due to have her baby any minute today and I wanted to make a few dishes for the new parents so when they come home and are taking care of the baby, they can just heat something up.
How about vegetable lasagna or homemade mac and cheese? What are the best things to feed a breastfeeding mother? I want it to be convenient but also healthy.
That sounds yummy, I want some! LOL Also, I know you want it to be healthy, but you could also make some snack type stuff, too. She’s going to need a few hundred extra calories to breastfeed. Plus, sometimes that’s the only way you have time to eat, it you are snacking in between naps and diapers and feedings. You’re a good friend, too. I wish I had someone to cook for me! (Besides my hubby)
Wow where where you when I had my daughter lol!
What a star you are!
Any thing with is yummy and healthy! In the early days you dont really have much time to cook a nice home made meal so anything which is packed with lovely veggies will be wonderful!
Maybe something which she could also eat one handed or food which dont taste to bad cold ! I have eaten many dinners cold after my baby wanted feeding at the same time!
Lovely idea! She is sure to love anyting you cook her!
i wont give lasagna or thing like that,give something wont be so heavy ,because after she has the baby she wont have desire to eat ,make her a chicken soup with noodles,it wont be so heavy but will give some energy back ,that she will need,i have a baby and i know what she is going through ,so it will be good to her .
i hope this help you
ANything that is healthy, easy to eat and heat up is great, but stay away from spicy food and foods that can cause gas (broccoli) for now, sometimes they can upset the baby, especially a newborn, when the baby is older the mom can test out those foods to see how the baby takes them.
lasagna sounds good: you can get her most of the nutrients she needs
fiber
calcium
vitamin c
iron-very important
all that good stuff
when i was breast feeding everyone told me to eat soup. A new mom sometimes doesn’t feel like eating something heavy either, they got so much nerves so sometimes soup is the only thing their stomachs can handle.
Anything that is neat and can be easily eaten with one hand.
Beyond that — whatever she enjoys. (There are no foods that she needs to routinely avoid.)
what about a nice lamb casserole, shepherds pie or some thick pumpkin soup… when my partner had our son she loved all those warm stew type meals that filled her up… you get super hungry breastfeeding…
make her a lemon meringue pie