Answering the recommendation which gradually eliminates nearly all foods
from a mother's diet....

Dear Jacie, Very few foods are likely to cause a reaction in babies.   Most
of the time the distress in the baby can be cured by breastfeeding
management. Such as, using one breast/feeding, changing the position of the
baby at the breast like nursing in a more upright position, or with mom in
a lying down position, feeding more frequently but just on one
breast--unless the baby wants more.   I have had mom's call me soooo many
times when they thought that their diet was the cause of the crying, or
distress in the baby.    Sometimes massage of both mom and baby, some
management changes, and a few followup calls are all the situation needs.
  When you look at what moms around the world eat, with no problems with
colic etc, well, I think we fuss too much about diet.   Sometimes I think
we should look at some of the other things going on.  There are
formaldehyde smells in malls which give me a headache--there are wicked
things in some of the sprays that people use routinely in their households,
hair spray, armpit spray, insect spray, perfumed sprays, bathroom sprays,
etc---environmental conditions which may affect all of us--and so on.   Do
you see what I'm saying?    Why put the blame on food?    As a dietitian I
know that the closest thing to a person's heart is their food habits, also
the most difficult to change, and mother's dutifully(but unhappily) alter
their diets for the love of their baby, but many times it is totally
unnecessary!            Just some thoughts from me, an IBCLC for the past 9
years, nutritionist for 15    Michelle Scott, RD,MA,IBCLC