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Please leave a comment to explain your answer. Whether or not your child has known food allergies, do you restrict your diet in any way? How easy or difficult is it to eliminate particular foods from your diet? Is there a history of food allergies in your family? If your nursling has food allergies, to which foods? Did your nursling or other children outgrow any food allergies?
My son, who was exclusively breastfed at the time, began to have tiny specks of blood in his stool at about 1 month. His pediatrician suspected an allergy to something I was eating and I had to go off of wheat, soy, nuts, eggs, and dairy for about 4 1/2 months. This was HARD! And after all that, we never really discovered the cause of the blood. My son is now 16 months and has no known allergies, and has eaten all these foods.
I want to tell other mothers who are struggling with a restrictive diet to check out the articles “Help for Breastfeeding Mothers on an Allergy Restriction Diet” and “Allergen-Free Recipes for Breastfeeding Mothers on Restriction”. You can find them on the “Oh Baby!” page at NewbornBib.com You’ll be able to enjoy many of your favorite types of foods again, such as pizza, cookies, cake, and even “ice cream”!
[...] results of the poll on allergies and breastfeeding were quite telling and the comments were helpful and insightful, especially for all those dealing with allergies in the breastfed baby. Frankly I was surprised at [...]
[...] results of the poll on allergies and breastfeeding were quite telling and the comments were helpful and insightful, especially for all those dealing with allergies in the breastfed baby. Frankly I was surprised at [...]