Breastfeeding Squashes: Health Effects and Cooking Recipes
Everyone knows that a new mother needs a balanced diet using only natural products that contain only nutrients.
These products include zucchini. This type of vegetable is added to the infant's diet during the period of feeding, as it contains 95% water, and 5% of the rest of the composition does not cause allergies. But during the milk extraction, I want to provide the baby with more care and health, so many wonder if it is possible to feed the children with zucchini and at the same time breastfeed.
Feeding baby
Squash for feeding an infant baby, of course, can be added to its diet. Especially, if the mother of the baby during pregnancy consumed zucchini. In this case, the occurrence of an allergic reaction in the infant will be an exceptional case.
After you feed the kid with the zucchini for the first time, you should follow his reaction: if he doesn’t cry for no reason, there is no rash and colic, then the squash can continue to be used as food for the baby, gradually increasing their number. You need to start with two teaspoons, but not raw.
The quality of the vegetable must be at the highest level. Buying zucchini should be only in the season, if you do not have your garden or vegetables are not ugly. It would be nice to know the sellers of goods, to be sure that the zucchini is grown in an environmentally clean area, and not taken for sale from dealers.
When to introduce zucchini in the diet
Such vegetables can be added to the daily diet from the first month, more precisely, from the eighth day after birth. It should be noted that at the time of making dishes from such vegetables it is not necessary to add a lot of spices, you can only add a small portion of sea salt and a couple of dill twigs. At the beginning of cooking zucchini must be doused with boiling water, then wipe the peel with hard material.
Benefit
The beneficial properties of zucchini are recognized by most doctors, and they consist in the following:
- include many minerals: magnesium, iron, calcium and potassium, due to which the normal development of the infant occurs;
- contain a large amount of vitamins A, B and C, which strengthen the body's bones, hair and improve the skin;
- are natural absorbers of toxins;
- contain fiber, a beneficial effect on the digestive tract and can serve as a preventive measure against constipation after childbirth.
But one should not abuse this vegetable, despite its benefit, since nutrition must be balanced.
Harm
Zucchini is a strong diuretic, so it can flush out many nutrients from the body. Frequent use of vegetables in food can lead to diseases of the cardiovascular system due to a decrease in the level of potassium. It is undesirable to eat raw or marinated zucchini, as zucchini in its raw form leads to gastric upset, and from the marinated zucchini for the child, one harm.
Storage and selection
Here are some tips for storing and choosing squash:
- you need to choose mature fruits, which have a smooth skin, no stains and growths; zucchini can grow, depending on the variety, of different colors: white, slightly dark green or yellowish;
- You can buy zucchini only during the season, in the rest of the year they can contain a lot of nitrates;
- You can store these vegetables in the refrigerator, but away from the freezer;
- their storage period is not very long; during normal storage they will not deteriorate within two weeks;
- for better preservation of quality zucchini, they can be frozen, before it is cut into slices, and in the winter period you can get and cook a magnificent dish, useful for your baby and young mother.
You should not get zucchini very large, as large seeds can cause flatulence in both the parent and the baby.
Recommendations for HB
When breastfeeding do not need to eat zucchini in a fried form, it is better to refrain from this.The best option would be squash caviar, cooked with his own hands, pancakes, casserole or stew.
Per day of nursing mother enough half a kilogram of vegetables, including zucchini. Obviously, a pound a day of zucchini per day would be an unnecessary dish, but in combination with cauliflower or broccoli it will become quite normal.
For seven days, it is desirable to use no more than one kilogram of this vegetable. Such a rule will contribute to a stable body function.
Zucchini recipes
From the described vegetable can cook a lot of excellent and nutritious dishes.
Ragu
It can be cooked both fried and stewed. Possible with the addition of potatoes and other related vegetables. In this case, cooking does not take much time. Cooking includes roasting in vegetable oil. Next you need to add sour cream and water. The whole procedure will take less than half an hour. Ragu is not dangerous in HB for a newborn.
Squash fritters
To make such a yummy, you only need to grind zucchini in any way. Then cut into the resulting mass of onions and break one egg. The mixture should turn out not too thick consistency. Then fry a lot of the required sizes. Children will like this dish.
Stuffed Zucchini
Initially, it is necessary to boil zucchini, preferably steamed, and place the meat in them. Next, bake in the oven. Oil will give a richer taste. Stuffing is better to choose from chicken or pork.
Squash caviar
Excellent food for a nursing woman. This dish is familiar to many. But when feeding a baby, it is better to exclude some components in order to avoid pain in the baby’s stomach. It is possible to mash caviar with the help of a blender.
To prepare caviar, you need the following ingredients: medium-sized zucchini, one carrot, onion head, dill branch, green pepper pod, small beetroot boiled in advance, two tablespoons of vegetable oil, a pinch of salt. The degree of cutting products will depend on personal preferences. You can cut into cubes, mince or use more modern equipment.
And now about the process of cooking. You need to prepare all the ingredients, wash and remove the seeds and stems. Boil beets, it is better to do this in advance, and clean in a cool place. We split in any way all the vegetables separately.
Finely chopped onion to fry in a skillet to a translucent golden state. To do this, you need to lubricate the pan with oil, add water about three tablespoons, onions and close the lid. Put on a strong fire to quickly heat the pan. As soon as the onion starts to sizzle, the fire should be reduced to a minimum, mix the onion and leave closed. In case of complete evaporation of water, you need to pour a couple of spoons. It is only necessary not to overdo it, as onions can be cooked.
Add grated carrot and close again. Stew a couple of minutes, add zucchini with pepper and continue to stew in the closed form for another five minutes. Then put the shredded beetroot and shredded dill, salt and simmer, removing the lid to evaporate excess water.
Beet creates a rich color dish, but if there is any hostility to this vegetable, it can be replaced with a pair of spoons of beet juice. It can also replace tomato paste, which is not desirable for nursing mothers. Periodically you need to stir everything so that the food does not burn. At the moment when the dish becomes thick and without excess liquid, you can be sure that caviar is ready.
Basically, the entire cooking procedure takes place within thirty minutes. This recipe will help to prepare food for the baby, which does not cause pain in his tummy, since all the ingredients in it are well extinguished.
The only thing that you can eat such a dish is only if none of the constituent products has caused negative reactions in the baby before.
Zucchini puree soup
To cook this first dish, you need to purchase the following ingredients: chicken breast 400 grams, two potatoes, not very large zucchini, two onions, dill, salt, peppercorns, 30 grams of butter, broccoli can be added if desired.
To make the soup in the form of mashed potatoes, you need a blender. In the absence of it, you can cook a regular soup that will not taste worse. The advantage of this recipe is that it can be used at any time of the year, since the soup can be made even from frozen foods.
It is prepared simply and quickly. Wash and chop the herbs and vegetables. Put to cook the breast, bring to a boil, at the same time lightly fry the onion. Next, remove the meat from the broth and leave to cool. Put vegetables in broth, salt and boil for fifteen minutes.
Pour a little broth into a separate dish, but so that the remaining broth completely hides the vegetables. Add onions, herbs and cook for some time. Then grind the soup until smooth. The broth cast in separate ware can be used for the level of density.
Re-put the soup on the stove and boil. Separate the chicken from the bones, cut and add to the dish. Add butter and peppercorns.
Sourness soup will give crackers. The finished portion can be decorated with fresh herbs and sour cream diversify. The chicken can be replaced with a turkey or completely excluded from the dish if the child is allergic to it. This soup is delicious and as a pure vegetable dish.
Baked Zucchini
Such a dish can help out at any time, as it prepares very quickly. For cooking you need one zucchini and hard cheese. It will take about ten minutes to cook.
It is necessary to heat the oven to 200 degrees. Cover the baking sheet with special material for baking, lightly grease with vegetable oil. Cut the zucchini into circles about 1 centimeter thick. Spread them on a baking sheet and salt. Put in the oven for half an hour.
Occasionally look out for them to burn. At the moment when the zucchini are reddened, the baking sheet should be taken out and put small pieces of cheese into circles. Again, put in the oven for about ten minutes. Everything, the appetizing dish is ready!
In general, a vegetable such as zucchini is a constituent product of many tasty and healthy dishes. When it is eaten, the figure will not deteriorate. But it is better to replace canned zucchini with frozen vegetables. So preserve vitamins and taste.
Tavern with breastfeeding contributes to the healthy development of the body of the mother and her child. After childbirth, with the help of it you can compensate for the lack of minerals and vitamins. Squash is also used as a cosmetic. From its pulp an excellent mask is obtained, refreshing the skin color.
For more on feeding a nursing mother, see the following video.