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10. Green vegetables
You can’t go wrong eating your greens!
Dark greens are high in iron and will help give you energy as well as help you recover more quickly.
Add spinach to your salad, steam some broccoli for lunch, any way you slice it, green is the way to go.
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Melinda Johnson, MS, RD, national spokeswoman, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, formerly the American Dietetic Association.
La Leche League International: “Cooking up healthy meal plans.”
American College of Nurse-Midwives; gotmom.org: “How Do Diet, Medications, and Alcohol Affect Breastfeeding?”
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Alabama Cooperative Extension System: “Nutrition for the nursing mother.”
University of California, San Francisco Children’s Hospital: “Nutrition Tips for Breastfeeding Mothers.”
FDA: “What You Need to Know About Mercury in Fish and Shellfish.”
American Academy of Pediatrics: “Transfer of drugs and other chemicals into human milk.”