Cabbages, broccoli, rutabagas, many legumes... all of these foods and some
others contain sulphur in forms that are absorbed into the mother's blood
and pass into her milk.  If you stand over the baby and sniff after one of
the many sharp reports likely to issue from the 'output' end of the baby's
GI tract the day or so following maternal intake of hearty portions of these
foods, you will be hard put to deny that cabbage etc. affect the baby.  Some
babies complain loudly and some just emit sulphurous gas.

OTOH people don't usually die of gas.  Rabbits do, I have been told, and so
Beatrix Potter's famous tale may be responsible for the deaths of scores of
this species, because she insists on placing Peter's father in the cabbage
patch.  I seem to recall the farmer being implicated in the violent death of
the father, but perhaps it was just risk-taking behavior on the rabbit's
part?  The explanation given to me is that they lack a mechanism for
'passing wind'.

Have any other Lactnuts heard that carbonated beverages drunk by mother
cause gas in babies, from the bubbles?  I consider this a myth and I
encounter it daily.  But IMO anything that causes mothers to reduce intake
of soft drinks is probably good.  Let me hasten to add my support for the
water lobby, even though it rusts iron pipes and fish **** in it
(W.C.Fields).

cheers / skoal
Rachel Myr
Kristiansand, Norway

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