Kidalog/Baby Love Products, Camrose, Alberta, Canada
Avoid these while breastfeeding:
Licorice (the herb)--it has steroid-like ingredients.
The herbs sage, black walnut, and yarrow decrease milk production.
Caffeine (found in coffee, cola drinks, tea) can cause irritability
and increased bowel activity in baby and depletes Vitamin B-1,
B-6, iron, and potassium in mother. Mothering, Spring 1996
"Taken
in a tea form by a breastfeeding mother, catnip soothes cramps
in a colicky baby's intestines. Also try avoiding onions, garlic,
broccoli, beans, chile, and perhaps dairy products for one week.
" Mothering, Spring 1996
Eating parsley will
decrease breast milk production. Sage also decreases milk flow.
Drinking fennel tea will increase milk flow.
