Alcohol After Birth: What to Consider While Supporting Your Recovery
The weeks and months following birth are a period of immense physical, emotional, and hormonal change. As your body heals...
- Wholegrains
- Protein
- Fruit and vegetables
- Essential fats
- Calcium
Key nutrients:
- Vitamin A to aid the development of your baby’s hearing, vision, sense of taste and to boost her or his immune system
- B vitamins to help prevent fluctuations in blood sugar levels and improve your milk flow
- Vitamin C for absorption of iron, making blood vessels, connective tissues, collagen and improving the immune system
- Vitamin D to boost absorption of calcium and building and maintaining healthy bones
- Vitamin E for brain and nerve development
- Vitamin K which is needed by your baby for blood clotting
- Calcium to replenish the calcium that your baby takes from your breast milk
- Iron for you and your baby to manufacture haemoglobin
- Zinc needed for the healing of tissue, production of hormones and to help prevent postnatal depression
- Omega 3/DHA – an essential fatty acid crucial to the development of your baby’s brain
