Food While Breastfeeding
The flavors in your food spiced up the amniotic fluid when you were pregnant, so chances are your baby is already used to the kind of food you eat — be it curry, garlicky pasta or General Tso's chicken. Whatever you eat while breastfeeding will also find its way to your baby. For this reason, mixing it up food-wise when breastfeeding may be a good way to accustom your kid to various types of food early on. But as flavors are transmitted, so are medicines, toxins and stimulants, meaning some caution is in order.
Doctors say the properties of gassy or acidic foods are sometimes passed on through your breast milk and can cause stomach troubles in baby. But experts say you shouldn't start eliminating foods at random as soon as you suspect allergies or intolerance. As for coffee and alcohol: excessive amounts of espresso will keep your baby wired when you might prefer she sleep. More than one glass of wine and you'll be passing on alcohol to your baby. As in pregnancy, if you're not eating well while breastfeeding, you'll suffer from undernourishment long before your baby does.
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