Does a mother's stress transfer to her baby through her breast milk?

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Babies pick up on all things. While chemically I don't think a baby picks up on a mother's stress, baby will definitely pick up other signals of a mother's stress. That's why it's important to relax when breast feeding.

Not easy to do but thinking calm thoughts and having a class of warm milk at the same time you're feeding baby can help. That's from my own experiences breastfeeding three kids. I don't know what your doc would say.It's not easy being the mother of a baby, even if you have the most perfect child in the world.

Try to relax, enjoy and treasure the moments with your baby. They don't last forever..

I don't think so I don't think it so much transferres through the milk, but through the body language. I had a terrible time breastfeeding. It was a painful experience, but I gave it my best shot.

But I am sure my daughter could sense my stress and discomfort as she started to stress out about it when I did. Before I knew it I was tense as I was anticipating the pain. I am a pretty stress free kind of person usually but this did affect my baby.

I gave up breastfeeding after 8 weeks and all was well. My daughter fed well and we were both happy.

I'm not a doctor, but... I know babies can pick up on the parent's emotions very easily. They will pick up on stress and other negative emotions even more so with a breastfeeding mother because of the amount of time they spend together and the physical closeness. While I am not a scientist so I don't know for sure, I do not think that stress can transfer through the breast milk itself.

I do know that strong emotions, including stress, can affect the quantity and quality of your breastmilk. This happens especially with physical stressors such as illness or injury since your body has to devote more resources to healing and dealing with other symptoms of stress and this can divert the energy and vitamins and minerals that may have gone to producing milk instead.

I would think stress raises cortisol levels and would affect the milk. I think babies can just feel your stress too. I ate pizza once and it may my kids cry nonstop.

I learned that certain foods affected them and not to eat these while I breast fed them.

And in turn without that ...(because of your stress) the baby might not get stressed out, but not be getting all it needs.

" "How do you slowly get your child off breast milk.

If I breastfeed and bottle feed with my milk will my baby get confused and not want breast anymore.

How do you slowly get your child off breast milk.

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