Some breastfeeding mothers avoid chocolate. Other moms avoid garlic. So how do you learn which foods to avoid when breastfeeding?
The answer is to pay attention to your baby. Your baby will let you know which foods to avoid when nursing and which are fine. If certain foods that you eat seem to send your child [...]

There are no hard and fast rules regarding foods to avoid while breastfeeding. But as a nursing mother you can gauge the reactions of your baby when you consume a particular type of food. If you find that your baby shows displeasure by crying you can be sure that the food that you’ve taken has [...]

Women in our culture are sometimes advised to avoid spicy or “gassy” foods when nursing. Or they are told that chocolate, citrus, carbonated beverages or dairy causes problems in all nursing babies.
As a breastfeeding educator, I often see women warning other Moms that they need
to avoid certain foods while breastfeeding. There are also websites that [...]