My son was a normal birth and did have colic...more likely caused by my not breast feeding him...this was many years ago before...and no one encouraged breast feeding then...and I was young and stoopid.
On behalf of a friend who was coooking for her daughter postpartum (and in turn the daughter’s new breastfed baby), I checked out some breastfeeding recipe sites. @e didn’t even have internet in the dark ages when I had mine. But what surprised me were some of the food items I surely ate then that were considered irritating to breastfed infants, such as PARSLEY. What? Of course garlic, which I’m sure I ate plenty of, since I love Italian food.
I’m glad someone is researching these details now. It is terrible to have to comfort a wailing baby for over an hour every evening until they can start solid food—you feel so awful for them!
I breast fed both my sons in the early 1970s. I watched my mother breast feed my brothers right after WW2 (later 1940s). My son with the severe colic was for 9 months as my milk was running out from returning to my job, and continual sleep deprivation from crying baby.ays,
My second son was one month early and had aspiration pneumonia so was in hospital for a week. I was sent home after 3 days, but kept pumping my milk. I also visited my son twice a day to talk to him and stroke his body with love. He nursed for almost 2 1/2 years. When about a year old he began to resist wearing his pajamas. He would lie there looking angrily at my bare breast, and kicking a little at my leg. I spoke with him about this recently. He actually remembered his thinking then. He said he learned forgiveness then because if he did not forgive me, he would not be able to take the breast. When he would first start to nurse his body would be stiff, but soon he would relax and after a while start to pat my arm. He is a very mellow laid back guy.