One of the aims I have in the bf class is to  challenge ideas that 
you need to do/not do special things when breastfeeding, and I am 
always keen to tell them the dietary restrictions they are following 
when pg no longer apply - and that whatever they eat, their babies 
will be just fine on their breastmilk.

Some people find this hard to believe - usually the fathers. One 
father said last night, 'but what about the E numbers*  in junk food 
- surely they go through to the baby?'

I don't have a short reply to that question, and I probably waffled. 
Common sense and my reading tells me that someone living on junk 
isn't going to harm their bf baby with E numbers - but what would be 
a quick and easy way of explaining this in class?

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK

* not sure if this is a universal term. We use it as a term for 
artificial additive in foods (on labels, all these are designated 
with a number begininng with E).

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