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Breast feeding how many calouries?

lucimouse Posts: 2

July 2012 edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition

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?

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  ali_b83 Posts: 324 Member

  July 2012

  You should be eating around 500 extra calories for breastfeeding.

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  auzziecawth66 Posts: 476 Member

  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

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  lucimouse Posts: 2

  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 :-)

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  SandraKay79 Posts: 7 Member

  July 2012

  You might find this article from Kellymom.com helpful
  
  http://kellymom.com/nutrition/mothers-diet/mom-weightloss/

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  jlcl119 Posts: 51

  July 2012

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

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