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Please leave a comment to explain your answer. Whether or not your child has known food allergies, do you restrict your diet in any way? How easy or difficult is it to eliminate particular foods from your diet? Is there a history of food allergies in your family? If your nursling has food allergies, to which foods? Did your nursling or other children outgrow any food allergies?

What do you do if you notice your breastfed baby has green, frothy stool? Here is the scoop on green poop. There are two main considerations when a baby has green watery bowel movements: (1) oversupply and a foremilk/hindmilk imbalance, or (2) baby’s reaction to something the mother consumed.
Oversupply and Foremilk/Hindmilk Imbalance
It may take several weeks for a mother’s milk supply to regulate. When a mother experiences oversupply, the baby can take in too much low-calorie, lactose-rich foremilk and not enough high-calorie, fat-rich hindmilk. That can lead to fussiness, gassiness, low weight gain and/or green, watery stools. A mother …read more

Breastfeeding plays a significant role in protecting children from developing or exacerbating food allergies. In the American Scientist article “Why We Develop Food Allergies,” researcher Per Brandtzaeg outlines the factors that contribute to a food allergy incidence of more than one in 20 young children in the industrialized world. 
With respect to food allergies, what are the main protective effects of breastfeeding?

Breast milk provides key antibodies that keep harmful substances from penetrating the digestive tract. The risk of food allergy is higher when antibody levels are insufficient.
“[H]uman milk also contains immune cells, immune-regulating cytokines and growth factors that exert positive biological effects.”
When solid foods …read more