Can i breast feed my DD-to-be if i'm vegan?

[GrannyGrissle]

Recently turned to a full vegan diet and it suddenly dawned on me that it can't possibly be vegan to breast feed my baby when she is born in November? How did i not know/realise this?

The OP's posts are only two-liners redshoeblueshoe! It's expert work.

Are you worried about the baby being fed through the umbilical cord as well

Sweet Jesus! What Friday night fresh hell is this?

Just give it a can of Red Bull OP. It'll be fine

nauticant - I wish I could do a thread like that
sadly I'm boring unless you read the Doctors thread

This is a case of ideology eclipsing good sense and logic.

I would normally assume it was a troll, but I remember an internet argument in which a (non-vegan) insisted to me that vegans didn't breastfeed and that she'd found some internet community that was "proof" of this.

Mind you, the same woman also corrected me on my Latin grammar in such a confident manner that I had to go and double check my old textbooks. Guess who was right? Yeah, moi, or rather mē. So she was generally a bit of a berk.

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This is what happens when serious life choices become 'trends'; stupid people jump on the bandwagon far too quickly and don't educate themselves on the decisions they're making or why 🤦🏻‍♀️

The purpose of most people choosing to go vegan is because they do not want to use animals for anything as it is cruelty and they cannot consent to any of it, and in many cases they are even dying for humans to have animal products... in what way are you being treated cruelly or not being able to give consent for your baby to feed from from your breast milk?

A FB breastfeeding group I'm on has had a very similar question posted on it this evening, I haven't actually read it but it's got a lot of responses, coincidence?!

I miss the mad mothers against dinosaur people. At least they had style.

Well, dinosaurs definitely aren't vegan!

Stand with me and fight against feeding children dinosaur meat!

As a mammal it just seems weird to feed my child my milk when i wouldn't drink milk from another species.

Why, will your baby be a different species to you?

Let's hope they inherit some intelligence from their father

Maybe the pregnancy is a result of alien abduction. Hence different species.

If you can't feed your baby we should just give it to the dinosaurs

RESULT

actually many dinosaurs were vegan
eg (if memory serves) stegosaurus and triceratops

I don't get what feeling like a caged animal has to do with being vegan. If you feel trapped because you can't put your baby down whilst feeding, the same applies to bottle feeding.

newtlover yes there were hudreds (thousands?) of herbivore dinosaurs. And they didn’t feed their babies milk because they were reptiles and laid eggs.

Maybe OP and her baby should become dinosaurs and problem solved!

Uh, the idea of veganism is to do no harm to living beings who can't consent. You can consent to breastfeeding - therefore, your child will be vegan and so will you. Breastfeeding from humans is 100% vegan.

Please stop trolling and trying to make veganism look ridiculous. Thanks.

As a mammal it just seems weird to feed my child my milk when i wouldn't drink milk from another species.
I think you've gone down the rabbit hole and completely lost sight of why you wanted to be vegan in the first place.

www.facebook.com/groups/UKVeganFamilies/ - come join this group.

But yes, as others have said, it is vegan to nurse your own baby. There is no vegan formula in the UK, btw. Just fyi.

Of course there's vegan formula in the UK. Soy formula for a start. Plus a number of others.

I don't mean dinosaurs weren't vegan, I mean it's not vegan to eat dinosaurs.

This is fun!

What were you planning to feed the baby? Quinoa?

of course vegans can breastfeed unless your child is of a different species

Just be sure that what you eat has enough of the nutrients you need.

Notbad as others have said soy formula usually has animal derived ingredients in it. Plus soy is really bad for babies - especially little boys. The plant oestrogens in soy can really mess with hormones and affect fertility (!)

Even highly hypoallergenic formula (available in prescription) is still based on cows milk - it’s just that the milk protein is really broken down in the manufacturing process to lessen the chance of allergic reactions.

The other alternative is goats milk based formulas - but again OP if you’re vegan you’d have the same ethical objections to goats milk and cows milk.

It’s all quite ridiculous anyway. No way is this for real. Vegans do not object to mammals drinking the same milk as their own species (they don’t think that co a milk shouldn’t be used to feed baby’s cows for example!) they object to the exploitation of animals for human consumption, precisely because humans are designed to drink human milk, not the breastmilk of another species.

Weird thread