What foods/drinks from a nursing mother will keep a baby awake at night?
According to the article below, you should avoid large amounts of coffee because it can definitely interfere with the baby’s sleeping schedule. I think the advice of testing out different foods and keeping track of the results of each is a very wise plan, as each child can react differently to different foods. Question: Are there any foods I should avoid while breastfeeding? Answer: Some nursing moms find they can eat whatever they like. While it’s true that some strongly flavored foods may change the taste of your milk, most babies seem to enjoy a variety of breast milk flavors! Generally, the dominant flavors of your diet — whether soy sauce or chili peppers — were in your amniotic fluid during pregnancy. Fetuses swallow a fair amount of amniotic fluid before birth, so when they taste those flavors again in their mother’s breast milk, they’re already accustomed to them. Occasionally a baby will be fussy at the breast or gassy after you eat a particular food.
