Eating Sushi While Breastfeeding
Pregnancy causes you to make some changes in your diet. Hopefully, you’re trying to eat more fruits and vegetables and not so many sweets. You stop drinking alcohol and even caffeine. And your Doctor probably instructed you to stay away from sushi and other raw or undercooked meats.
However, there’s no need for you to cut out any particular food when you’re nursing unless your baby shows an intolerance to it. This rule goes for sushi as well. 
Fish is highly nourishing for everyone, but nursing mothers especially benefit from the vitamin D and healthy fats in fish.
When eating sushi, it’s important for anyone to make sure they are getting it from a safe and reputable source. There is the risk of infection by Listeria or food poisoning from fish that has not been handled properly.
These things have the potential to make you sick but the illness would not be passed on to your baby.
The moral of this story? If you’re a sushi lover, there’s no need to stop enjoying one of your favorite foods just because you are breastfeeding your new baby.
Highly recommended: Nutrition for Breastfeeding and Pregnant Women
Tags: breastfeeding and diet
