Any adjustment to calories per day for nursing?

haventhane

I'm just signing up today after having a baby and I need to know how to adjust my goals for calories to accomodate for nursing?

lesmoo27

You need about 500 extra calories a day for nursing. That number will decrease once your baby is older and you introduce solid foods and the baby needs less milk. Good luck with everything!

addiec1

If you put breast milk in your food journal it will give negative calories for however many ounces you produce, which is helpful if you pump and know how much you produce

jbirkett7

You can have your diary adjusted by looking up breastfeeding under food and add the 500 calorie entry to your food log (I used to add it to breakfast). Alternatively you can manually enter it as one of your exercises as 500 calories burned. You'll just need to add it once manually then it will show up in your list to add daily.

bodysoulhealth

This is SO AWESOME to find out. More food for me!