You might have heard that you can eat whatever you want while breastfeeding your baby. But this is not correct. According to any standard breastfeeding guide, you must avoid a few specific foods during breasting your baby.

While it is a fact that adding too much strongly flavored food to the diet can bring significant impact on the flavor of the breast milk and babies seems to enjoy the varieties most of the time, it should not always be a healthy choice, both for you and your baby too.

Sometimes, you may find your baby get ratty towards your breast after you eat certain foods. Thus, you must avoid such foods. In fact, if you eat any hot spicy food, your baby may experience severe gastric problem and abdominal pain. So just stay away from

There are long list of offenders and you must stay away from them. This list may include the names of chocolate, spices, chili, citrus fruits, lime, garlic, vegetables responsible for gaseous trouble, fruits bringing laxative effects such as cherries and prunes.

Yes, you can have one to two cup of coffee a day, but more than that can again make your baby ratty towards your breasts. And also too much caffeine can hamper the sleep cycle of the baby. It's not just the coffee, but you must avoid any caffeine based medications, tea or foods and beverages.

Well, you may have alcoholic beverages sometimes, but adding too many alcohol content into your regular diet can increase the alcohol level of the body, and putting the alcohol into your breast milk badly. If you have planned to take more than a peg, it is better to wait for at least 2 hours before you take another. At the time of breastfeeding your baby, you must avoid any sort of alcoholic drinking.

However, you must focus more on the healthy diet and for that you must consult your doctor and a good and experienced nutritionist. If you think that you may risk of getting nutritional imbalance, you must seek help before any adverse things happen. The doctors and nutritionists can help you to overcome nutritional imbalance with the help of nutritional supplements.

While breastfeeding a baby, it is important that you have a healthy diet and do a light exercise on a daily basis. Otherwise, you may find it difficult to maintain your health as well as baby's too. So if you are breastfeeding a baby, this is the right time to get the best diet chart for you.