Breastfeeding and Food Intolerances: How Mom's Diet Affects Baby
Featuring Maya
With Lauren Zatezalo, OT student, and Melissa O'Neal, OTR/L
On this episode we talk with guest speaker Maya about her experience with infant food intolerances and breastfeeding. We discuss how a mom's diet may affect her baby through breastmilk, and what you can do about it. We also introduce an app Maya created to assist moms in tracking symptoms, called Map My Milk.
About Maya
Guest bio coming soon.
What You Will Learn in This Episode
- How proteins transfer from a mother's diet to her baby through breastmilk, and why some infants react to specific proteins like those in cow's milk.
- The symptoms of Cow's Milk Protein Allergy (CMPA) and other food intolerances, including continuous crying, rash, blood or mucous in stool, reflux, and hives.
- Why elimination diets are not always the right first step, and how pattern tracking can pinpoint the actual trigger without removing major food groups unnecessarily.
- How the Map My Milk app helps moms log food, formula, and infant symptoms, then surfaces correlations using math rather than AI.
- How to turn tracked data into a tool for self advocacy with your healthcare provider, instead of trying to remember symptoms from memory.
Show Notes and Resources
Map My Milk app (mapmymilk.com). Children's Hospital of Philadelphia on Cow's Milk Protein Allergy (chop.edu/conditions-diseases/cows-milk-protein-allergy). CMPA overview on NCBI (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK542243). Canadian Paediatric Society on CMPA (cps.ca/en/documents/position/cows-milk-protein-allergy).
From This Episode
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