like wheat, soy, cruciferous veg, tomatoes, chocolate???

I had to avoid soya, citrus fruits and msg (including naturally occuring sources of it, such as certain chinese sauces) for 5 months as my son reacted to all of them with nasty diarrhoea and horrible nappy rash xx

Hi I have to avoid anything remotely spicy or my dd gets major tummy ache. Am dying for a curry after nearly 4 months lol

I was told to mainly avoid stuff like nuts, almonds etc.

A couple of doctors mentioned chocolate, seafood and processed meat as well, but the main consensus was nuts. I'm taking it by ear I guess.

^There is no need to avoid nuts unless you yourself have a nut allergy or its in your immediate family. Advice in the UK changed a few years ago as they discovered avoiding nuts during pregnancy and breastfeeding was in some cases sensitising more and more babies to it and creating serious allergies. xx

I was advised by fellow mums to avoid citrus, strawberries, chocolate, caffeine, green leafy veg and fizzy drinks, because they can also cause wind in LO. I'm already off dairy. Her colic is terrible, so I'm willing to try anything. SHame because I can hardly live without Coke

Oh, and I'm not eating prawn because my OH is allergic and LO could have it too, so in case it passes through the breastmilk. I don't know if it does pass through or not, but I'm not a big prawn eater anyway, so it's no skin off my nose. Apparently you're not supposed to give your kids shellfish until they're 2 years old, because of the bacteria etc, but we've been advised not to try our kids on prawn until they're 3, because of the allergy.

I am avoiding eggs as I have noticed it effects Leo quite bad. Chocolate makes him seriously sick but I class it as dairy anyway xx

Thanks for that. This is the one thing every pediatrician over here told me, to avoid nuts that is, and as she is a newborn I'm still a bit too cautious, but what you say does make sense- I remember a similar topic when I was pregnant re peanut butter.

Other than that, a doctor told me no chocolate, another said go ahead. Same with seafood, and other stuff. Not because it may cause wind, but allergies.

I am craving chocolate like crazy but so far I've managed not to touch the damn thing, even though I have a whole wrapped bar of the damn thing waiting for me right opposite my desk.

Im eating everything i ate during pregnancy minus milk, cause it upsets MY tummy))

As I had such a limited diet already because of how my son reacted to certain foods (I didn't avoid anything without him reacting to it first) some of the only things I could eat were vegan foods containing nuts, such as nut cutlet burgers and cakes with ground almonds instead of flour, to give two examples and it never caused any problem. They have had great success with treating peanut allergies here by giving the children in question increasing amounts of peanut flour over time, and they do now think those children developed an allergy because they just had no contact whatsoever to peanuts while their mothers were pregnant and breastfeeding. Chocolate is fine also. I do wonder whether these same doctors would be being quite so cautious about ingredients in formula-as formula does contain dairy, fish oils, soya and several other known allergens and with formula a baby is getting these substances in far larger quanitities than they would via breastmilk. So if these doctors are coming up with a long list of things BF mums should avoid they should surely be recommending only strictly non-allergenic formula too? xx