I believe that it's possible to sensitize to allergies during pregnancy.  I
advise moms to eat variety and moderation during pregnancy as well as during
bfing. I have had many moms over the years take a food out of their diet
while bfing that they ate excessive amounts of during pregnancy and baby has
improvement of sx from colic to eczema.

My grandson was one such case.  Born to my daughter with allergies (sulfur
drugs and environmental) and asthma and his father with environmental
allergies, he certainly had good chances of allergies.  My daughter was
gestational diabetic and also preparing for a Bradley birth.  She controlled
her gestational diabetes with diet.  She counted carbs and proteins and aimed
for 80-100 grams of protein per day.  Her fast food was scrambled eggs.  She
would eat 3-4 per day especially in the last 3 months of her pregnancy.

On my grandson's fourth day of life, my daughter ate scrambled eggs and
noticed he broke out in little blisters all around his mouth following the
first bfing after she eat the eggs.  The following day the same occurred.
She took eggs out of her diet.  At age one, she told the ped she was
concerned for him to have the MMR as it was then incubated in eggs.  They
tested him for egg allergy and, yes, he was allergic to eggs. She did not
introduce eggs to him till he was around three years old. He did touch egg
whites on the shells when she was baking at around two years old and his
fingers broke out in a rash within minutes.  She read labels from the start
of solids.  At about age three, she began to allow him to try foods with some
egg in them.  He had no problems.  She slowly increase eggs in foods over
time and by five he was eating scrambled eggs with no problem.

He started breaking out in hives when he came in contact with colognes or
fragrances at one week of age. He is allergic to nickel and several  other
metals except gold (lucky kid).  She breastfed him exclusively for nine
months before starting solids and continued bfing till he was a little over
three.

Though, he has allergies and asthma, it is easy controlled by keeping away
from known allergens and keeping his inhaler close at hand.  He is otherwise
health with an above average IQ (142, not inherited, I personally think it
was all the egg protein and DHA in the third trimester and the lengthy
bfing).  Had he been formula fed and started solids at then the recommended 4
months, I seriously doubt he would have been as healthy as he has been.

I suspect that if we ever advance enough to know the truths about allergies,
we'll find they play much more a part in how we feel from physicially to
emotionally then might be imagined. JMHO.

Warm regards,
Pat Lindsey, IBCLC - Lactation Services  www.PatLC.com
Pediatrics Plus' Lactation Consultant   www.pedsplus.com

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