What you eat could affect the taste of breast milk. And your baby might not like it.
QUESTION
I have a nearly four-month-old daughter who weighs 6,600 kg, is 62 cm tall, and takes only breast milk. For days, when she breastfed, she took two sips and parted in a frank tantrum. Then it sucks again and separates in the same way. Why does he do this?
ANSWER
Cry when you taste milk
Judging by the weight, your daughter is not short of food. Maybe she cried because her throat was sore or she had a virus and the symptoms have passed. She may also be angry for some reason.
If you take your milk and give it to him (or someone else gives it to him) with a glass or a bottle, does he cry the same way or does he drink it well? If you keep crying the same way every time, and also with your milk, you may be allergic to something you eat. It is worth going about ten days without drinking cow’s milk and derivatives, eggs, fish and other foods that seem suspicious.
In case your baby remains the same, it was not an allergy. If he improves and eats normally, he takes those foods again, one by one, days apart, leaving cow’s milk for last (it is the main allergen). If you eat everything and the girl doesn’t cry, it was a fluke.