Balance your diet!

Underlying a wide range of the postpartum ailments that I often see in my practice—including asthma, allergies, eczema, mood problems, depression, and autoimmune disease—is a single nutritional imbalance: too much of certain fats and not enough of others. You may be accustomed to thinking of fat only in terms of how much of it has collected on certain parts of your body, preventing you from getting into your pre-pregnancy jeans. Or you may only consider it when loading up your shopping cart with low-fat or non-fat foods. If so, it's time to change your thinking.
Certain fats are essential for life. Every cell in your body is surrounded by a membrane made from fatty acids, the most basic building blocks of fats. Fats are necessary building blocks for hormones. Prostaglandins, which regulate immune system and reproductive function, inflammation, the constriction and expansion of blood vessels and blood clotting are made exclusively from fats.