Your Baby Loves What You Eat When Pregnant and Breastfeeding

Came across this article in the internet and thought to share it here. To all my breastfeeding friends and pregnant mothers, eat whatever stuffs that you want your baby to eat :)

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Written by Sheryl Duruz

At the Monell Chemical Senses Centre in Philadelphia they were researching to see if what the mother ate affected the lifelong food and flavour preferences in their babies. Dr Mennella had a group made up of pregnant and nursing mothers carrot juice every day. Once eating food the children who were exposed to the taste of carrots through the amniotic fluid or breast milk were much keener on carrots than those whose mothers had not drunk carrot juice!

A similar study was then done on peaches and found the same result.

Then a third where breastfeeding mothers whose babies were startig to eat solids but hated green beans had a turn around once the mother started eating them too (and passed on the proof she was in her breast milk)!

Julie Mennella, who carried out the study, said: "Flavours from the mother's diet are transmitted through amniotic fluid and mother's milk. A baby learns to like a food's taste when the mother eats that food on a regular basis."

So if you want to help your children be healthy and enjoy healthy foods start early by taking excellent care of yourself!! Dr Mennella said: "If mothers want their babies to learn to like to eat vegetables, especially green vegetables, they need to provide them with opportunities to taste these foods."

Cheers (she clinks her glass of green juice)... to my future childs love of greens, peaches and all the bounty in the natural world!

Sheryl