Guest guest Posted January 13, 2001 Report Share Posted January 13, 2001 Weeelllll.. the way I see it is this - how long does it take to digest food. Apparently a three course meal takes 24 hours - perhaps a danish takes a lot less time. Whatever happens it is unlikely that the food you are eating is going to affect your milk in any way if you are eating whatever it is in moderate amounts. If you ate a whole bagful of oranges you may expect your child to be a bit grizzly but probably cos he's sick of the taste of oranges! Indian women swear their milk tastes of curry, and of course babies love garlic milk, but it would take an awful lot of a substance to carry through into your milk in sufficient quantities to then cause an upset tummy. The other thing to bear in mind is medication. For a medication to get through to your baby it has to be absorbed well by your gut, then the molecular weight has to be small enough to transfer through your milk and then these much smaller quantities have to survive the baby's digestive system to get through to their blood, to be transferred to whatever part of the body the original drug acts on. You could say the same about food. A truly varied diet is a relatively new thing to a humans system - I can't logically see any reason why evolution has made it so that a baby is affected by gorging on one particular food - after all 'in the olden days' (said with a crones voice) we would eat massive quantities of whatever was in season. Crying babies attract unwanted attention. Survival would demand a quiet baby. Personally if a child is grizzly or smiling, I would look for other reasons, such as he is having a bad day, or that he just loves you, first. Don't know if that helps much. Of course if you consistently find that the Danish pastry makes him smile, well I would continue eating them in huge quantities if I was you. <grin> Sue BFC - and only a BFC now in preparation for the BIG move. KB Holm wrote: > How long does it take for food to be reproduced as breast milk? I have heard anything from 24hrs to 'from one meal to the next'. I'd like to know what the baby is getting... especially when he is especially windy and miserable, or when he is giving me a particularly nice grin... was it last night's steak or this morning's Danish Pastry... > > Karina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 13, 2001 Report Share Posted January 13, 2001 >Sue >BFC - and only a BFC now in preparation for the BIG move. When do you go Sue? Lynda SAHM to (7), (5), Fraser (3), Callum (15/5/00) Newsletter editor, Mid-Northumberland Branch http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=762789 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 13, 2001 Report Share Posted January 13, 2001 I think me and Em will follow Simon out at the end of May, he is going at the beginning. It really depends on when we get the house. If we have a house allocated to us when Simon gets back from The Falklands, then we may go with him at the beginning of May. I would much prefer this as it gives us loads of time to get sorted, and we can discover Cyprus together, (for that read 'actually I don't want him to be telling me how it is all the time'.). But really I just don't know yet and am going to play it as much by ear as my personality allows. And he can't understand why I am getting jittery. Sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 21, 2001 Report Share Posted January 21, 2001 > How long does it take for food to be reproduced as breast milk? I have heard anything from 24hrs to 'from one meal to the next'. I'd like to know what the baby is getting... especially when he is especially windy and miserable, or when he is giving me a particularly nice grin... was it last night's steak or this morning's Danish Pastry... have we answered this?? my memory is definitely not what it used to be :-( the answer would have to be that it varies. in theory anything in blood can get into breastmilk. so if you drank alcohol on an an empty stomach it would be pretty quick to reach the milk - very small quantities of course. but if you ate a large meal and then drank the same amount it would take a lot longer to reach the blood and therefore the milk. some molecules are too large to get into the milk - some drugs like warfarin for example. then how long does it stay around - that's an even better question and we don't know the answer for most foods. so i would say your meals get into your milk fairly rapidly - within minutes and hours - but then how long does it take to affect your baby having been swallowed? even more difficult! and how long will the effect last? interesting stuff huh? Sue S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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