Sick through breastmilk?

[ellnina]

So my MIL seems to think that me eating or drinking anything cold will cause my milk to go cold and make my baby sick. Is this true? My 3 month old son has a runny nose and she's blaming me 😐

She's talking bollocks. The temperature of what you eat will have exactly the square root of fuck all effect upon the temperature of your milk. Please, please, do use my exact words to the daft, interfering, unhelpful woman.

Babies get runny noses for the same reasons we do - mostly colds. As in viral upper respiratory illnesses. Not the temperature of your diet.

I am, as you may be able to tell, cross with your MIL. You're still breastfeeding at 3 months. You are brilliant. She, however, is not.

I really want to echo nocool's last statement. You are brilliant!!

No cold food won't make your milk cold nor your baby sick (your milk will actually contain antibodies to make them better when they are ill. How cool is that!!) and just incase you are unlucky enough to get my first hv no driving fizzy drinks will not make your milk too bubbly

Does she understand how blood temperature works? If you eat ice cream, you don't freeze. Apply pretty much the same policy with BM.
Well done you for BFing. I am feeding for the first time with child 2 and it is an amazing rollercoaster. And that is without random in laws!

Oh! I forgot. My older dd has been very sick twice with scarlet fever since I had her wee sister. So in the space of 8 weeks she has been awfully sick twice. The baby has been fine, almost certainly because I have had it and baby is protected by me.

Oh! I forgot. My older dd has been very sick twice with scarlet fever since I had her wee sister. So in the space of 8 weeks she has been awfully sick twice. The baby has been fine, almost certainly because I have had it and baby is protected by me.

Thank you guys for clearing that up! She was a 'nurse' back home in India and she's thinks she knows everything about babies. Even with my 3yo daughter I get blamed if she gets sick because of 'negligence' fml lol