Well, diet can certainly affect breast feeding. We recommend that the mother still get a balanced nutritional diet while she is breast feeding. Having said that, it is possible for malnourished women to breast-feed babies. The mother's body will still produce milk, but it's not the optimal kind of milk for her baby. So, the optimal diet for producing milk is the optimal diet for mother. She should be eating plenty of protein and getting plenty of access to nutrients in food, protein in food. Green leafy vegetables are always important, in fact the darker greener vegetables helps the mother to produce even more milk and access to lots of fluids really helps her as well producing breast milk.
