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How long between what I eat and what he drinks?

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marsup · 04/01/2004 18:37

Breastfeeding - Do different foods get absorbed by the bloodstream at the same rate and come out in the milk after the same amount of time, or are they all different? does anyone know roughly how long it takes?

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popsycal · 04/01/2004 18:45

sorry marsup - i don't know.
I hope that tiktok or mears can help
but just wanted to send my wishes...hope that youare both ok

Lisa78 · 04/01/2004 18:54

can't be specific Marsup but I would say what you eat gets into your breastmilk at different rates, depending on how easily digested it is. Alcohol for example gets into your bloodstream very quickly, whereas fatty food can take 36 hours to be digested. Most painkillers are quick too. But thats digestion and into bloodstream, I'm not up on the mechanics of BM production; I wonder things like if I have wine immediately after BF, will there be more in my milk cos the milks been produced at the same time I'm drinking, or less cos my body is breaking down and getting rid of the alcohol b4 the next feed!
So will watch this thread with interest!

tiktok · 04/01/2004 19:33

Many (most?) constituents of a diet do not enter the milk in any recognisable or traceable or identifiable way. You really can't take a sample of milk and work out the mother had fish and chips the day before

A mother told me she avoided carbonated drinks in case they gave her baby wind.

I wanted to ask her how the bubbles in her Coca Cola would manage to get into the milk.

Some constituents do, of course - such as alcohol.

But there are a lot of variables here. Milk is made more slowly when feeds are spaced far apart, and more quickly when feeds are close together.

kiwicath · 04/01/2004 19:55

Hi Marsup. On leaving the hospital and flying back to Sharm El Sheikh when Jake was 2.5 days old, we passed by some friends and I had a small glass of Champagne (it WAS Xmas day!!!). Feed Jake while I was drinking it and he was in agony with cramps and wind for the rest of the evening. I felt like such a wicked mother . Moral of the story ... fizzy drinks (alcholic or not) effect them and FAST!!

Lisa78 · 04/01/2004 19:57

I agree with you tiktok in my head but DS2 does seem to have a "trumpybum" when I have fizzy drinks!!!!!!!!!!!

tiktok · 04/01/2004 20:31

Kiwicath - I remain unconvinced!! There are many reasons why a newborn baby might seem uncomfortable and windy. Why blame the champers?! Maybe it was the coco-pops you had for breakfast

Lisa - your experience could be coincidence, too.

Just curious to know how bubbles in one drink can travel through the stomach, into the bloodstream and thence to the milk - making it fizzy?????!!!

pie · 04/01/2004 20:33

Fizzy blood

Lisa78 · 04/01/2004 20:34

You're right, you're right, I know! But nevertheless...!!! Suspect air bubbles from fizzy drink would cause heart attack or similar before reaching milk!!!!!!!!

Lisa78 · 04/01/2004 20:35

Possibly Pie - my blood does bubble when I reach boiling point! Ha, my scientific brain is breaking through now!

pie · 04/01/2004 20:35

lol

kiwicath · 05/01/2004 07:46

Ok, ok - maybe it wasn't the champs that made his tummy upset. It could have been the creme de casis I put IN with the champs You're right though, maybe it was just a coincidence. I have another bottle looking at me now - I could do an experiment for you all if you want

Clarinet60 · 05/01/2004 23:22

It won't be the air bubbles, it'll be something else associated with fizzy drinks that's upsetting them. Some other ingredient. I think mothers know when something they eat/drink has upset their baby. Personally, nothing I take ever affects mine, but I don't doubt the word of those who have been affected.

Spod · 08/01/2004 18:54

so what sorts of foods, drinks have you all felt have affected baby? I can never tell... when dd has been particularly windy or cranky i rack my brains to see if its anything i could have eaten. In particular, i wanna know what could cause nighttime wind! she grunts and kicks me all night!

aloha · 08/01/2004 19:35

I think we are so desperate for an explanation that we latch onto anything! I don't believe anything upset my ds. He once went a bit ballistic after I had a Thai curry, but even that could be a coincidence. I can see the seductiveness of believing that fizzy drinks could cause wind, but can also see how it would by physiologically impossible!

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marsup · 11/01/2004 16:59

Spod, I am also interested in what causes wind. Mine does more than grunting and kicking, he screams for 2-3 hours every night. The midwife has suggested eliminating veggies from the cabbage family and the onion family, citrus fruit, and ruffage (ie wholewheat cereals); and other sources suggest eliminating milk products (and of course all acohol, chocolate, caffeine, beans). I am a vegetarian and have worked out that if I eliminated all of the above I would be left with... carrots and apples. This seems a wee bit drastic to me. At the moment I am testing eliminating citrus fruit. No results so far.

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