Is it watermelon? Whether it is possible for a melon at thoracal feeding?

Benefits and Harms of Melon and Watermelon for Breastfeeding.

Can a nursing mother give watermelon? This issue worries women in the "watermelon" season because all that they eat falls into the milk, and therefore into the baby's body.

Is it possible to eat a watermelon when breastfeeding?

I just want to say - yes, and only yes. Because the watermelon is not only tasty, but also very useful for both the mother and the baby. The only danger can be a high content of sugars in watermelons.

Therefore, if you know that your baby does not want to get a lot of glucose, fructose and sucrose, it is better to reduce the consumption of this product. But if your baby is healthy - eat watermelons for your own pleasure.

When mom and baby are one whole

Useful properties of watermelon

As a watermelon there is organic iron , which is very easily absorbed by the body. Therefore, it is indispensable when it is necessary to raise the level of hemoglobin in the blood.

People who eat 1 kg of watermelon 4-5 times a day completely fill the body's needs for iron. In addition, the composition of watermelons include:

• cellulose
• proteins
• pectin
• glucose, fructose and sucrose
• organic acids
• essential amino acids
• vitamins
• trace elements
• interchangeable amino acids

Watermelons are used not only for dietary, but also for therapeutic nutrition. They are useful in diseases of the cardiovascular system, pyelonephritis, chronic colitis, kidney stone disease, gallstones and anemia.

Cure for beds for nursing mothers

Fiber is useful for those who have problems with the digestive tract. And folic acid and vitamins are indispensable for the prevention of atherosclerosis.

Watermelons have a tonic effect, they are often prescribed for infectious diseases to improve immunity and resistance of the body to infections.

Precautions for using watermelons during breastfeeding

Watermelons can accumulate used in agriculture, chemicals and fertilizers. It is possible to determine visually whether there is an excess of nitrates in the watermelon.

• When cutting such a fruit, you can detect yellow sealed areas of
• If you want to know exactly whether this watermelon is safe - use a nitrate tester. There will be just a couple of minutes to conduct an express examination at home.

Watermelon check for nitrate content

Some parents give watermelon to babies as complementary foods. The opinions of dietitians on this occasion are divided and some consider watermelon as too heavy food for the stomach of a child for up to a year.

Others agree that it can be given from 7-8 months of age. Probably, it is worth advising parents to trust their own intuition and give children a watermelon that does not contain nitrates, first in small amounts, and then more if the baby tolerates it well.

Tasty and useful?

How to choose a delicious watermelon, useful for the baby and nursing mother?

You can learn how to choose watermelons if you remember simple secrets:

• The rind of a ripe watermelon glitters, and if it is a striped watermelon, it has brightly pronounced strips of
• . If you knock on a ripe watermelon, the sound will be hollow, such as if you knock on something empty, for example, over an empty wooden barrel ortightly pumped ball. If the sound is sonorous - before you a green watermelon
• Watermelon should not be soft to the touch, this indicates that either it was ripped off long ago and already withered, or was squashed while transporting the
• Some argue that a good watermelon should have a dry tail,but in reality it means only that the watermelon has ransacked or lain untouched for a long time, and rather negatively characterizes its quality.
• There is a national sign in Ukraine that watermelons-boys and watermelons-girls are supposedly. In the watermelon girl, the brown dot in the place where the flower was growing is large, at the watermelon-boy it is small. Watermelons "female" are always tastier and sweeter, although it is very difficult to find a logical explanation for this.

How to choose a sweet watermelon?

Watermelon for leisure

Watermelon can serve not only as food, but also as a material for creativity. When the watermelon is eaten and only the peel remains, from it good crafts are obtained. Of course, such compositions are short-lived, but they can be imprinted forever with a camera.

Well with watermelon juice

In the summer you want to try all the gifts of nature. Fruits and berries replace each other until the fall. Along with the watermelons, the shelves are full of honey melons.

Can I breastfeed?

I do not want to upset nursing mothers, but melon is contraindicated in breastfeeding. When a mother consumes melons, the child may experience gasses in the intestines, diarrhea and painful colic. Therefore, no matter how much you would like to try this summer gift, you better refuse to use melons during lactation.

Tasty, but not useful for a baby

But, if your soul asks for a piece of fragrant melon - eat in the least amount and follow the reaction of the child's body to a new food product. If the baby is all right, you can eat more than one small piece.

Is there or not? That's the question

Useful properties of melon

Melon fruits contain a lot of sugar, about 16 - 18%.Of these, glucose 1 - 2%, sucrose 5 - 9% and fructose 2 - 4%.Also in the melon there is vitamin C, beta-carotene, vitamin E, B vitamins and trace minerals:

• magnesium
• phosphorus
• manganese
• iron
• copper
• zinc
• fluorine

There are many in melon and organic acids - apple, citric and oxalic, celluloseand pectin substances. All these substances are used to improve the body. Melon increases the level of hemoglobin in the blood because of the presence of iron and carotene in it, useful for atherosclerosis and liver diseases.

Melon ripe in the sun

Precautions for using melon

Because of the high content of sugars, melons can not be eaten by people with high blood sugar, it is harmful to those who suffer from peptic ulcer and intestinal disorders.

Melon can not be washed down with water and consumed with liquor. It can not be given to children for up to a year and there are lactating mothers. Like all vegetables and fruits, a melon needs to be checked for nitrate content.

Melon - the benefit of breastfeeding

How to choose a delicious melon?

• The easiest way to determine the ripeness of a melon is by its smell. Ripe and sweet melon smells of honey. The sweeter is the smell - the more delicious melon
• You can choose soft, melting fruit in the mouth if you lightly press down the skin. In a ripe melon, it will be soft
• Melons that do not smell or smell of grass, will taste like raw zucchini or raw potatoes, which means you just throw money away.

Summer Gifts

Summer is a wonderful time for fragrant flowers and sweet berries, picnics in the forest and trips to the sea. At this time of the year you can enjoy plenty of sugar watermelons and honey melons. At the end of summer, nursing mothers can eat watermelons without fear for the baby's health, because they contain a minimum of nitrates and a maximum of all kinds of vitamins.

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