First of all, you have to be ready that, at the first month of breastfeeding, even the strictest diet wouldn't help as baby adapts to the outside world, to get food through the stomach but not through the cord, so sometimes the baby can have gases, intestinal cramps or diarrhea. You don't have to afraid of this - the baby will adapt to new conditions very fast, and then it will be possible to add new products to mother’s diet plan.

To follow child's reaction to any product, you can keep a food diary. Every day, write down dishes you ate, and your child's reaction.

A short list of permitted products. List of foods while breastfeeding.
Vegetables: mandatory in a heat treatment, first time avoid eating raw vegetables. Bake, boil and simmer it. Fresh juices are allowed after one month. After three add to the menu fresh vegetables.
Fruits: Avoid grapes, citrus fruits, mango, papaya, avocado, strawberries, and raspberries. Apples baked only, try to clear them from the skin. You can safely eat bananas. Fresh juices you can drink after one month. After three months you can add one new fruit in two days, follow the child's reaction.

You can use almost all types of cereals, they promote digestion, besides they are nutritious and contain a lot of nutrients. Except for fast food cereals. Variety vegetable broth soups. Meat can be eaten separately from all other products and only lean.

Cheese. Poultry meat. Dairy products can be entered in a week - kefir, fermented baked milk (better to use it, as it's softer than kefir), cottage cheese, yogurt, curdled milk. (Sea, river) fish boiled, baked with vegetables. Also, you can eat eggs but remember that this is an allergen. You can have small amounts of bread with additives, as an example, with roughage. Dairy butter and oil.

You shouldn't eat many sweets. However, you can use dried fruits, galettes, biscuits, and bagels.

Dry crackers, cookies, jujube, pastila, marshmallows (without chocolate). Rather weak green and black tea, weak coffee, fruit drinks, stewed fruit, herbal tea with mint, thyme, and oregano, non-carbonated mineral water. After months, it can add to the menu borscht, sour cream, nuts, fruit drinks, and jam. After six months, you can eat honey, a variety of herbal spices, legumes, seafood. Also in this period, you can eat pasta, cheese, seasonal fruits and vegetables (this is important, only seasonal!).

What isn't recommended to eat? You have to know about the stop-products, use of which is strictly forbidden during all lactating mothers.

Alcohol. Chocolate, some sweet products - pastries, especially with the addition of different dyes and substitute. Coffee and tea, avoid this at least for the first six months. Later, you can use them, but only high-quality products, as for coffee, it should be well cooked, tea - brewed, not in bags. ATTENTION! There is an exception - a special tea, so-called tea during breastfeeding, which includes fennel, thyme, melissa, anise - such teas increase lactation. Avoid semi-finished products, foods with artificial preservatives and dyes, use only high-quality and fresh products. Avoid carbonated drinks; there are no benefits from this for neither the child nor mother. Garlic, onions and other spicy foods. Avoid smoked meats, sausages, and fish. Avoid fat meat and lard. Avoid beans and brown bread. Avoid pickled cabbage, garden radish, radishes, fermented cheese (suluguni, sheep cheese, Adyghe cheese) sausages, and ham. Avoid exotic fruits.

While breastfeeding you can eat:

Milk in cereals and other dishes; Kefir, clabber, yogurt (natural and without additives); Cottage cheese; Cheese; Lean beef and pork; Poultry; Sea and river fish, fatty fish in small quantities; Butter; Vegetable oil; Dry biscuits, crackers; Jujube, pastila, marshmallows (without chocolate); Any groats except instant cereals; Bread with bran and whole wheat; Any fruits and berries except grapes, citrus fruits, mango, papaya, avocado, strawberry, and raspberry; Rather weak green and black teas; Weak coffee; Fruit drinks; Stewed fruit; Herbal tea with mint, thyme, and oregano; Non-carbonated mineral water.

Breastfeeding mothers not allowed to eat:

Alcohol, even if it is non-alcoholic beer, as milk will be toxic; Chocolate Strong tea and coffee. These drinks stimulate child's nervous system; Onion. Garlic and spicy foods; Foods with artificial preservatives and dyes; Smoked meat, sausage, and fish; Fatty meats and lard; Sauerkraut, garden radish, radishes, fermented cheese (suluguni, sheep cheese, Adygea cheese), sausages, ham; Marinades, soups, canned food, spicy and salty dishes, smoked fish and meat, spices; Highly allergenic foods, such as caviar, fish, seafood, mushrooms, eggs, nuts (except walnuts), honey, chocolate, cocoa, coffee; Vegetables, fruits and berries in orange and bright red color, as well as exotic pineapples, avocados, kiwi, and cucumbers Beans and brown bread.