Foods that affect breastfeeding...

[suburbanslob]

Anyone reckon they do? And if so which ones?

None for me.

None for me either.

Ooh great - I've had a skinful of choccy this week!

None for me. High doses of caffeine can get through into bm, but I used to eat a lot of chocolate (sadly I'm now dairy intolerant so can't. :()

Current advice is to eat a 'normal' diet while breastfeeding. Of course, if you eat curry or garlic then your milk will taste of those foods slightly - and this can be a huge benefit when introducing complementary foods after about 6 months or so, because your baby will already be used to encountering different tastes.

Everything you eat does 'go through' into your milk to some extent. I have a very severely allergic DS and while I am 'still' breastfeeding him, I need to avoid all the foods he is allergic to (eggs, nuts, dairy, seeds, bananas and a few other things) because he reacts to the traces of proteins in my breastmilk.

However, if your DCs have no allergies, you can eat whatever you like - and it take about an extra 500 calories a day to breastfeed so you can eat plenty of it!

I find that when I eat asparagus I have loads of milk the next day - I am able to pump much more in the same amount of time and can collect an ounce in a breastshell when feeding from the other side!

But could just be me

Unless your dc is allergic to anything you can eat and drink what you like except of course excess alcohol and possibly caffeine.
Oats help increase supply so if you feel you need to produce more for whatever reason get eating porridge, flapjacks etc.
I found chocolate and cake essential to my bf diet

After more then five years of breastfeeding, I can't identify anything that definitely goes into the milk.

Possibly my ds cries more if I have had an alcohol drink, but I'm not sure.

I had a huge bowl of stewed plums when DS1 was a few days old. The next day he had the runs all day and I felt terrible! Didn't seem to matter once he was older though. Also, I avoided caffeine throughout pregnancy and BF, apart from one occasion where I had a 'decaff' capuccino that wasn't decaff. DS1 was about 2 months old. He went absolutely beserk several hours later. Usually a good sleeper, but that night, he was wide awake, pedalling his legs, pumping his arms, eyes wide open until 2am when he suddenly just conked out and fell asleep for a record 6 hours. Poor little lamb!

Nothing affects my DS either. Although sometimes his nappy would smell slightly of curry.

Orange juice seemed to affect ds, he'd cry for ages after I'd drunk it. That's the only thing. I don't drink caffeine anyway due to IBS

haven't noticed anything hear either.

The one thing I did notice was that I had a lot of galic while BF DD, she absolutly love's galic and would always eat anything with galitc in while weanig.

Nothing for me either. I don't have much caffeine anyway and drink less alcohol now I have DS! :)