Breast feeding how many calouries?

lucimouse · July 2012

My baby is 11 weeks old and I've started tracking my calouries at 1450 but was wondering with breastfeeding (exclusively) would I need extra?

ali_b83 · July 2012

You should be eating around 500 extra calories for breastfeeding.

auzziecawth66 · July 2012

Add it in to your snacks just search breast feeding on the database, it's about 500 exclusive, 300 when they are eating other stuff

lucimouse · July 2012

Thanks so much. I really want to keep feeding but have been making really poor food choices tryibg to get back on track now :-)

SandraKay79 · July 2012

You might find this article from Kellymom.com helpful

http://kellymom.com/nutrition/mothers-diet/mom-weightloss/

jlcl119 · July 2012

Not necessarily.
Read the Kellymom article, everything on that site is top notch.

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