Breastfeeding and Diet Indulgences - please make me feel better

[DefNotYummyMummy]

My baby is close to 6 months old. This week so far my diet has been shocking.

Yesterday I had a packet of chocolate digestives and fish and chips for dinner. I had a pint of ribena before bedtime. (I was busy working around the house and didn't have time to do a proper dinner/lunch etc).

Then today I am exhausted after yesterday, but have managed some crisps, a full fat coke, a twix, a crunchie, 2 pieces of cheese on toast and some fizzy fruit juice.

I'm too ashamed to tell the health visitor this one - but also sick of being told to follow a healthy diet. By the way, usually I am pretty healthy with at least one of meals of the day !

Baby still EBF by the way. She's not interested in solids yet (must curb this diet by then as otherwise may gain back pregnancy weight !)

Just thought I would confess my sins. Please tell me I am not the only one with this guilty secret !

ds2 has survived on breastmilk made on chocolate biscuits for the last 10 months

No you are not. I ate nothing but chocolate hobnobs for months!

Thanks. Feel much better.

Talking of chocolate hobnobs...

Oats are meant to be good for supply. Therefore eating Hobnobs is probably recommended! ;)

On Sunday I ate
A sausage sandwich
A chocolate eclair
A jam an cream doughnut
A bakewell tart
Fish pie (crammed in all 5 a day)
A chocolate cup cake
3 cups of tea
1 glass of Rioja

An extreme but fairly representative example of my diet recently. Oops.

Why would the HV care what you eat?

Don't, I'm bfing a 4 month old. Have no power of resistance, no energy to exercise and am 2.5 stone overweight

I had a bag of Percy piglets for breakfast this morning and polish off a bar of galaxy every night

Mamjo - that sounds lovely. I think I'll try that diet tomorrow !

MoonUnitAlpha - my HV is like the scariest headmistress ever. She gives me this guilt trip about whatever I eat goes to the baby and i have to think about everything that I eat and drink. "I don't suppose the baby would like coke and tea ?" (Her words !)

She's also a obsessed with sleep. said the baby should be sleeping through by now. Gave me leaflets about controlled crying. My DC3 sleeps from 7pm to 2am and I think that's pretty good. Wakes up eventually at 7am.

Anyway, I just think BACK OFF !

I am terrible and worried about what nutrients DS is getting but it's so hard to get something healthy with no time and one free arm! Today I have had:

2 pieces of toast and butter
A cherry bakewell

Where is the fruit and veg! Poor child will be malnourished.

Your diet doesn't effect the quality of your milk though! Unless you're seriously malnourished/starved you can eat what you like guilt free

A baby whose mother eats quinoa and spinach won't be any better nourished than one who eats cake and crisps.

My username should give some clues to my diet.
My DD is BLW so although almost nine months she still relies heavily on bm.

My appalling diet doesn't seem to have done her any harm!

I would just stop going to see your HV. You don't have to.

Tell your HV to stick her nose elsewhere.

I can't remember what I ate mostly except that my extra 500cals a day was coming from a bar of Green&BLack's milk and almond chocolate (a whole 100g bar every day, yes).

DS seems fine, although he does rather love chocolate (but then so do I and so does his Dad so I'm not taking full responsibility for that!)

This thread made me peckish so I have just hast a couple of oatcakes with seriously strong cheese. They were lovely.

Doing my bit for Burns night. [bwink]

Oh, and I certainly wouldn't discuss what I eat with hv.

Thank you for making me feel normal, especially as I have a DH with abnormal self control!

Clicked open this thread whilst halfway through a bar of Galaxy Truffle which is my treat for going shopping. Am blanking the chocolate croissants, Gu pots, cookies and crisps which also found their way into the tray.

Calories you say? lalala I cant hear you...

*trolley, not tray

i thought you HAD to eat cake every day while bfing?

i find the odd avocado helps to stave off guilt.

thumbdabwitch me too for the daily bar of G&B almond. i miss it so!

You HV sounds utterly bonkers. As moonunit said, your diet does not affect the quality of your milk.

My friend's HV told her that BF mothers should eat a bit of chocolate every day, which sounds far more sensible to me

Yay for this thread! I'm a stone and a half over pre pregnancy weight. I would be able to shift it no bother if I could resist bloody chocolate or anything that's easily opened from a packet.

Got two months til I go back to work. I'm so not gonna fit back into my work trousers!? :-(

However my belly has its uses. Perfect wee bouncy area for 4.75 mo DD to jump on hehe.

Your HV sounds far too controlling! Just saw the bit about the leaflets for controlled crying - well, if you're ok with how your baby is sleeping, WTF business is it of hers?? [bangry]

And yes, as others have already said - what you eat in general terms does not affect the quality of your BM in nutrition terms - although drugs/alcohol/caffeine will come through in the BM, as will strong flavours (banana, curry etc.) but usually only for a short time after eating them.

littleomar - my problems started when I stopped bf'ing and couldn't give up my bar-a-day habit for a while! [bblush]