Calories for breastfeeding

jrubenstein82
jrubenstein82 Posts: 1 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Does anyone know where I can add the calories if I'm breastfeeding. I saw somewhere that I should be able to add it in the diary, but I can't find where.
Thanks!

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  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    Not my specialist subject (clearly!) - but simply search the food database for "breastfeeding".
  • kylohart
    kylohart Posts: 11 Member
    If you are referring to the calories you burn breastfeeding it is 20kcal per once produced. If you're pumping you can use that to get a general idea of how many calories you are expending and manually put that into your exercise
  • Purplebunnysarah
    Purplebunnysarah Posts: 3,252 Member
    jrubenstein82 wrote: »
    Does anyone know where I can add the calories if I'm breastfeeding. I saw somewhere that I should be able to add it in the diary, but I can't find where.
    Thanks!

    I always just added it as a 1-minute custom exercise.

  • kjannan
    kjannan Posts: 248 Member
    I added 250 calories to my daily goal, 500 when I was EBF.
  • Hollysargeant86
    Hollysargeant86 Posts: 1 Member
    edited August 2016
    I found it listed when I searched breastfeeding under snacks. It gives you a negative amount but I had to express so it was easier to log the amount

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