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What Foods Not to Eat While Breast-Feeding a Newborn Baby

Jun 06, 2021

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Healthcare

Peter Maurer

As a breast-feeding mom, your food choices are doubly important because you are the sole source of nutrition for your newborn. A breast-feeding diet allows far more freedom in choices compared to that restrictive pregnancy diet. Still, some foods and drinks that pass through your breast milk can have unwanted side effects on your baby.

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For nine months, you carefully avoided deli meat, hot dogs and unpasteurized cheese (and all the other non-pregnancy-friendly foods) to keep baby safe and healthy. Of course, now that baby is finally here, those protective instincts are probably only heightened—so it’s normal to wonder if there are foods to avoid while nursing. After all, molecules from the food you eat can make their way through your breast milk and into baby’s system. But here’s the good news: There really isn’t a list of foods to avoid while breastfeeding.