Key nutrients for new mums while breastfeeding and the benefits of a tailored breastfeeding multivitamin
Healthy choices to help fuel your milk production.
As a new mum, the best way to care for your new baby is to ensure your own health and wellbeing takes priority too. Eating well during breastfeeding will help you meet your extra nutrient needs and the demands of life with a newborn.
Your baby needs plenty of vitamins and minerals for healthy development and your food choices will help fuel your milk production. It’s important to eat a diet rich in protein, iron, calcium, iodine and vitamins while you are breastfeeding. Try to eat regularly and include a wide variety of healthy foods.
Nutrient requirements increase up to 88%¹ during the breastfeeding stage and meeting this with diet alone can be difficult.
To make sure you and your baby are getting optimum amount of vitamins and minerals you need, a daily multivitamin can help.
Elevit’s Breastfeeding multivitamin is tailored to support a woman’s increased nutritional requirements with essential vitamins, minerals and omega-3 to support her own immunity, energy and breast milk production as well as her baby’s eyesight, brain and ongoing healthy development.
Your baby needs plenty of vitamins and minerals for healthy development and your food choices will help fuel your milk production.
The First 1000 Days, from conception to a child’s second birthday, are a critical window to lay the foundations for lifelong development and health. It’s a time where the brain, body and immune system develop significantly. To put this in perspective, the baby develops from 1 single cell to 500 trillion cells during the first 1000 days!
There is even evidence to suggest that the protective effects of good nutrition during the first 1000 days can help maintain health later in life.
Before, during and after pregnancy, you should try to maintain a healthy diet from a range of food groups, to help ensure you and your baby are getting enough essential nutrients as your growing baby will rely on you to get the right nutrition during the period of breastfeeding.
It can be difficult to reach your increased nutritional requirements from diet alone, especially when you’re pregnant, experiencing morning sickness or meeting the demands of breastfeeding! This is where scientifically formulated nutritional supplements , like Elevit, can help you reach your recommended daily intake targets and help support your baby for the first 1000 days.
Your growing baby relies on you to get the right nutrition during the breastfeeding period.
The key ingredients and benefits of Elevit Breastfeeding multivitamins
Elevit’s tailored Breastfeeding multivitamin supports a woman’s increased nutritional requirements with 19 essential vitamins and minerals including omega-3 DHA. Take one small capsule each day throughout the breastfeeding period.
Lutein and betacarotene to support baby’s healthy eye development
What to eat: Dark-green vegetables, such as kale, spinach, and broccoli, are great sources of lutein. The richest sources of beta-carotene are yellow, orange, and green leafy fruits and vegetables, like carrots, spinach, lettuce, tomatoes, sweet potatoes and broccoli.
Omega 3 (DHA) to support healthy development of baby’s brain
What to eat: Food high in Omega 3 including fish and other seafood (especially cold-water fatty fish, such as salmon, mackerel, tuna, herring, and sardines). Also nuts and seeds (flaxseed, chia seeds, and walnuts) and plant oils (such as flaxseed oil, soybean oil, and canola oil).
Iodine to support baby’s brain development
What to eat: The foods highest in iodine include seaweed, dairy, tuna, seafood and eggs.
B Group vitamins and iron to support energy levels
What to eat: Top sources of B vitamins include meat (especially liver), seafood, poultry, eggs, dairy products, legumes, leafy greens, seeds and fortified foods, such as breakfast cereal and nutritional yeast.
Good sources of iron include red meat, chicken, fish, lentils, enriched cereals, leafy green vegetables, peas, and dried fruit, such as raisins.
Vitamin C and zinc to support immunity
What to eat:Fresh fruits and vegetables including citrus fruits, broccoli, potato, tomato, kiwi, cauliflower, cabbage and strawberry are some the best sources of vitamin C. Zinc-rich food sources are meat, eggs, and fish.
Vitamin D, which aids with calcium absorption
What to eat: Good food sources of vitamin D include fortified low-fat or fat-free milk, fortified orange juice, egg yolks, and salmon.
*Always read the label and follow directions for use.
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- National Health and Medical Research Council. Nutrient Reference Values for Australia and New Zealand Including Recommended Dietary Intakes, 2006.
