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I'm looking for opinions.
Of the 5 children that I've nursed, I've had to give up dairy with 3 of them, and the twins had to start out with dairy-free formula.
I'm thinking that maybe this means I ought to just plan on giving up dairy when this baby is born. Does that seem reasonable or would you just cautiously keep your dairy and be prepared to give it up in case of excess fussiness, etc? Dairy is kind of a big deal in our house, and -- aside from the fact that there is a lot of buzz about soy disrupting hormones -- I can't have soy anyway, and I can't have almonds either, so both soy and almond milks are out. I don't actually drink liquid milk right now, but I do eat cheese and get most of my probiotics from kefir and yogurt.
In the past I don't think I've been well prepared and haven't gotten enough calcium (and with my first children, used a lot of packaged, overly sweetened dairy substitutes). I'm trying to do a little better this time.
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I would cut dairy out during the last two weeks of your pregnancy and then use it very minimally (1 cup a day) after your baby is born. If the baby seems to be okay with the minimal amount of dairy, then you can slowly add it back in to your diet. If not, wait until your baby is around 3 months to add it back to your diet. The fat that is found in whole milk is good for you.
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Knowing what that first bit is like.. I'd also cut it out to start and make that first week a tiny bit easier and then see if you can add small amounts in.. starting with your kefir or yogurt.. though I've heard you can make kefir water.. so that's something you might look into as well. But generally because of the culturing yogurt and cheese can be given to infants sooner than liquid milk.. so I would also think that you could possibly use those even if you can't use liquid milk. As long as you don't overload.
And remember that you can get as much flavor by using a small amount of sharp cheddar as you do with more of a medium or mild cheddar.
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Angela,
After 4 children that never had any dairy issues this baby has rocked my dairy loving body to the core. NOOOOOO dairy can pass my mouth or it takes days for baby to recover. My only advice is trying lactaid milk. I have been able to have that with my cereal and oatmeal with great success.
Best of luck.
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Christine wrote:
| I would cut dairy out during the last two weeks of your pregnancy and then use it very minimally (1 cup a day) after your baby is born. If the baby seems to be okay with the minimal amount of dairy, then you can slowly add it back in to your diet. If not, wait until your baby is around 3 months to add it back to your diet. The fat that is found in whole milk is good for you. |
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I'd go this approach. The problem with nursing is that it doesn't really matter what "form" to have the dairy. Whey and Casein and all milk proteins get into mother's milk, and that is what disturbs the baby if she's sensitive.
Knowing how hard to go off dairy, and also how tired I am the first 3 months or so, it would help to just eliminate that possibility until baby is older. My gut feeling it is genetic for your little ones, and treat it that way.
But basic milk intolerance for the milk proteins through mother's milk usually is outgrown. The food allergy to milk is a different issue.
I do not drink milk, and really only eat yogurt on a regular basis, and be I do eat some embellishment of a dairy nature such as cheese. I can miss all that but cream in my coffee I mourned the whole time I had to stay off dairy, wheat, and eggs when I nursed my son.
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Thanks for all the advice. I think it makes sense, and I've been trying to cut down on my dairy over the past week. What I find it especially hard to do without is cheese (I guess I don't eat too much, but it's a convenient thing to grab as a snack) and eliminating milk in cooking, because that impacts everyone else usually.
On the other hand, we go through A LOT of milk with so many boys, and I don't think cutting down on it (for them) is necessarily a bad thing... it's getting really expensive anyway.
Cream in my coffee is a big deal, too. I may have to switch back to tea.  A LOT of tea... 
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