Sign up to get the latest news on parenting, child health and relationships with advice from our experts to help every family live well. See next articles. The Checkup Dr. Perri Klass on family health. Sign up for our Well Family newsletter. If you notice a pattern of fussiness, gassiness, spit up, loose stools, and other digestion issues, talk to your pediatrician. They may suggest not eating the food such as dairy products, a common allergen for a few days to see if there's any change.
As it turns out, there may actually be some direct benefits to exposing your baby to a variety of flavors via your breast milk. Spicy foods are just another flavor that your baby will be exposed to, which will hopefully help them be more willing to try different foods as they grow up.
A study published in by Pediatrics , found that babies who had been exposed to a flavor in utero or while breastfeeding were more likely to like that flavor when they were weaned.
This often makes breastfed babies easier to feed later on. So you could be doing your baby a big favor by not restricting your diet and continuing to eat whatever is delicious to you. Because the mammary glands that produce your milk and your milk-producing cells help regulate how much of what you eat and drink actually reaches your baby through your milk.
Read on to get the verdict on alcohol, caffeine and other foods that were taboo during pregnancy before you start scratching anything off the menu while you're nursing. Nursing moms don't need to be scared of spicy foods, says Paula Meier, Ph. By the time the baby is breastfeeding, Dr. Meier says, she is accustomed to the flavors Mom eats. In fact, some items that mothers choose to avoid while breastfeeding, such as spices and spicy foods, are actually enticing to babies.
In the early '90s, researchers Julie Mennella and Gary Beauchamp performed a study in which mothers breastfeeding their babies were given a garlic pill while others were given a placebo. The babies nursed longer, sucked harder, and drank more garlic-scented milk than those who had no garlic exposure.
Moms will restrict their diet if they suspect a correlation between something they ate and the child's behavior — gassy, cranky, etc. But while that cause-and-effect might seem enough for a mom, Dr.
Meier says she would want to see more direct evidence before making any diagnosis. It's very, very rare that a baby would have something that would truly be a contraindication to the mother's breastfeeding. The effects of repeated exposure to garlic-flavored milk on the nursling's behavior. Pediatric Research. Duration of exclusive breastfeeding may be related to eating behaviour and dietary intake in obesity prone normal weight young children.
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