What foods afect your BF baby?

[AchristmasRGPARGYcarol]

I have been prompted to start this thread after finding out (the hard way!) that if I eat onions, my DD will get tummy ache and she'll have a very fretful night (and i'll get no sleep!).

So i'm therefore wondering if there are other foods which have an affect on a BF baby, whether good or bad, and if so, please list them here and tell us what affect they have on your DCs!

It could save us all some sanity!

[AchristmasRGPARGYcarol]

ps - soz for typo in title!

[orangehead]

A friend of mine couldnt eat oranges as lo got upset tummy. Both my ds were fine when bf

[AchristmasRGPARGYcarol]

oh yeah i heard that too!

[tiktok]

Oh dear.....RG, this isn't going to help mothers at all, sorry

The vast majority of babies do not care what their mothers eat. An apparent reaction to foods, in most cases, is chance/coincidence.

Developing a list of foods which mothers should avoid only risks making bf harder and more difficult to manage with an ordinary life, and incidentally, fuels the myth that formula feeding is 'easier' because you 'don't have to worry about what you ate eating'.

It may be your baby reacted to onions. Possibly. It's likely that if she did, she will grow out of this sensitivity.

The only way to be sure of a link is to eat onions every night for a week, and then not to eat them for a week, and then to eat them for a week again.

In your case, if it's happened enough times for you to make a putative link, then you will prob want to avoid onions for a while. But the rest of the bf world don't need to think it will happen to them, or adjust their diets, or make a list

Sorry - don't want to rain on your idea

[AchristmasRGPARGYcarol]

Sorry tiktok - it wasn't my intention to cause negativity!! I was just curious, that's all.

I'm too "data happy" for my own good sometimes!

Apologies

Feel free to request this post be removed.

[SleighlyMadSanta]

Well I won't name it in the interest of what Tiktok has said but I want to tell my mildly interesting story.

I hated a taste/smell when preg with DD3. Made me nauseas

When breastfeeding if I ate the same thing for tea she would fuss and pull off screaming when she got towards hind milk all evening.

Was easy to avoid though once I realised the link...which is all that is needed to contine bf sccessfuly

[tiktok]

NO!!!! It doesn't have to be removed! And conversation about which foods affected your baby and so on is fine....it was the 'list' that made me twitchy, and the idea that it could be used by other people as a preventive measure!

Chat away about oranges, onions, brussell sprouts, whatever : )

[AchristmasRGPARGYcarol]

oooo Brussels Sprouts! Now that one will be a curious experiment!!

[SleighlyMadSanta]

Well mine was garlic

[AbbyMumsnet]

I think this is a useful thread - particularly if you are having a bit of sporadic trouble, as you might not think to link it to the fact that you'd eaten, say, a vindaloo the night before Fwiw, DS (now 7) couldn't stand it if I ate Thai food, which was an absolute pain as I love it.

[broguemum]

These are my suspects - no concrete data or experimental proof but the correlation seems spooky (valid scientific term ) enough for me to exclude them from my diet:

onions
dairy products if consumed to excess (more than 2 yoghurts a day)
and
(much to my distress) chocolate....

[AchristmasRGPARGYcarol]

at chocolate!!!!

Think i'd just DIE at that one!!!!!!

[moondog]

None whatsoever.
I ate and drank to my heart's content, and probably felt freer than I ever have before.

[ScottishMummy]

curry = parrpy nappy