Breastfeeding, Onions and Colic?

[Meeple]

Has anyone ever noticed what you eat while breastfeeding affecting your baby?

Doesn't seem to be much evidence to support this but I've just had 2 very unsettled colicky nights with my 6wk old daughter and realised that what I ate for tea those 2 evenings were curry and fajitas. The previous 3 nights were fine and what I ate then didn't include any onion or spice etc so it got me thinking I may cut out onion/spice from my diet for a week and see if it makes a difference.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Spices are well known for giving breastfed babies colic. Certainly did with my first baby. She could tolerate them better after a few months.

Colic is just another name for people not knowing what the f is wrong with the baby.

What you eat will come through your milk but that’s not to say you can’t eat it. People all over eat onions / curry / spices etc, and still breastfeed.

6 weeks in and babies are still challenging and still brand new. She is growing and changing and going through development leaps every day. It will make her unsettled. Google 4th trimester, it might make more sense.

I found that when I ate spicy foods it did make my baby a bit more unsettled/windy the next day. I think if you eat it all the time then it generally doesn’t effect the baby but i was told that if it’s only every so often it can