Breastfeeding and fizzy drinks

[naturopath]

I always thought / have been told that it is bad to drink "fizzy" drinks when breastfeeding, because (apart from the obvious general unhealthiness) the carbonation gets into the breastmilk and makes the baby windy. Is that really true??

(Please - no answers to the effect of general badness of these drinks - I'm aware of that - just interested in windy aspect) - thanks!

no of course it doesn;t
do they make your pee fizzy ffs?

exactly! What's with these people?? (obviously I can;t for the life of me remember now where / who told me this).

(I say this bf and drinking Sprite)

It is just as true as it is to say that eating crisps makes your milk crunchy, i.e. not at all.

DD2 went through 2 weeks of "colic" which stopped when I stopped drinking fizzy drinks - mind you I was drinking a lot of it. Could easily have been a coincidence though.

more likely caffeine

you may laugh, but a mw told me this very thing (gas in your milk)
bonkers
I mean how exactly would that happen?

MrsB - was caffeine free diet coke!

ok, I've just had 1litre of Sprite. ds tends to feed throughout the night, so I'll report back in the morning!

I keep craving sugary rubbishy fizzy drinks and it has no effect on DS that I can see whatsoever.

My midwife told me that drinking/eating too much sugary stuff whilst breastfeeding can lead to diabetes. No research on this, just something she told me once. Never heard anything about them making your milk fizzy though, how silly.

I thought it was sparkly wine, champers usually gives really bad colic.i forgot at new year and drank a couple of glasses of prosecco and dd was really colicy the next day.

well, I'm still undecided on this one. ds woke up a few times crying and not really wanting to feed (which is unusual), but it was definitely one of his better nights.

Bertiebotts - weird - that's why I was drinking it and needed to ask the question - been totally craving sprite, and I know it's generally bad, but it's such a strong craving I just have to give in to it occasionally (if it won't give ds a bad few hours).

Any more anecdotal / scientific evidence gratefully received

I seem to crave fizzy drinks when I am stressed and not eating much, which always seems to coincide with DS feeding more, so maybe I crave sugar when I am feeding him more if that makes sense. Hard to know which comes first.

Dear Lord, where do these ideas originate?

We should do a thread on things we have been told are bad to eat whilst BF. A friend of mine was told by her MW that on no account was she to eat Mangoes or any soft fruit. I mean WTF? I have been told by countless people not to eat curry or spicy food....which I always counter by saying that 14 billion Asian mothers can't be wrong.

I had real problems with half a pint of cider when dd1 was about 6 weeks old. She screamed lots

No trouble with other fizzy drinks (diet coke mostly) or other alcohol (wine, Baileys etc).

Soft fruit? Why on Earth...? Although my mum always goes on about how when she ate strawberries I used to get diarrhoea, so perhaps something like that?

too much fruit can give very sloppy poo (sorry!) especially grapes, oranges and strawberries IME

I'd try to avoid eating lots of soft fruit is the (little) baby had bad nappy rash, but one of mine had it really badly

I have bf my 2 dd's for a total of 30 months (& counting)
I have never noticed an impact of anyhing I chose to eat on them.

IMHO is all rubbish peddled by people who do not understand breastfeeding.

Theprovinciallady I like your comeback on the spicy food comment

My HV recently asked me about my fizzy drink intake when I told her DS was very windy/colicky etc.

ok, this is starting to become a discussion that I am generally and genuinely fascinated by - what foods make any difference???

So far (and I have been bfing my 2 ds's for a total of 23 months):

curry (various that I have made): no effect
sprite / coke: no effect
coffee: no effect
alcohol: no effect

things that I do question are:
salmon
onions
eggs

(I know dairy and soya are already problematic over in our household).

not sure on orange / apple juice, mangoes etc. but they do give my older ds v bad nappy rash when he has too much of them..

also - what is the time lag? Let's say I eat an egg and iyt's bad for my milk, how many hours / days later would I expect there to be no effect left? (I ask bc both ds's have been genderally windy / colicky etc., so difficult to know what is diet-related or not)..

sorry, bit off the subject (but I did start this thread!)

Interesting.

I eat and drink a pretty wide range of stuff and have never noticed anything.

Am addicted to coca cola so plenty of that. Curry, shellfish, pickles, anchovies, etc etc all has been fine.

DD1 BF 14 months and DD2 6 months so far.

DD1 did have shocking colic but I'm sure that was just her little foible rather than diet or anything. DD2 didn't get it.

I was very sceptical of the story that eating 'farty foods' (beans, cabbage, etc.) could make your baby have wind, since I thought that the windiness was on account of undigested material staying in your gut, so how could it go into your milk...? However, one night when I'd eaten a lot of cabbage as part of my evening meal and DS was still sleeping in our room, he was sooo windy. Writhing around and farting like a trooper. Haven't done that again.

Isn't eating a wide range of foods when bf supposed to make the baby a more adventurous eater when eating solids?

exactly chocolatemoose (mmm, nice name..!)
I'm supposed to be eating a wide range of foods but am currently avoiding (and did with ds1):

dairy (ie anything at all with dairy ingredients)
soya (as above)
eggs (just eggs as main ingredient)
windy vegetables (cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, onions etc.)
citrus fruits and other acidic fruits
peanuts (as ds1 is allergic and don't want them in the house / on me)
caffeine, alcohol (have the occasional drink of both)..

so what's left??
bread, chicken, fish, peas, green beans... not that much else. doesn't make sense.