usha manohar wrote:

There is no evidence at all that garlic is to be avoided during either pregnancy or while breastfeeding ..

http://www.parents.com/baby/breastfeeding/basics/avoid-foods-while-breastfeeding/

...By the time the baby is breastfeeding, Dr. Meier says, she is accustomed to the flavors Mom eats. "If a mother has eaten a whole array of different foods during pregnancy, that changes the taste and smell of amniotic fluid that the baby is exposed to and is smelling in utero," she says. "And, basically, the breastfeeding is the next step going from the amniotic fluid into the breast milk." In fact, some items that mothers choose to avoid while breastfeeding, such as spices and spicy foods, are actually enticing to babies. In the early '90s, researchers Julie Mennella and Gary Beauchamp performed a study in which mothers breastfeeding their babies were given a garlic pill while others were given a placebo. The babies nursed longer, sucked harder, and drank more garlic-scented milk than those who had no garlic exposure.

That is some amazing information. Although in Maharashtra pregnant women and women who have delivered a baby are encouraged to eat garlic in their daily diet, of course in moderation. Garlic in food encourages milk production and also keeps flatulence and other digestion problems away from the baby and the mother.

Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:

usha manohar wrote:

There is no evidence at all that garlic is to be avoided during either pregnancy or while breastfeeding ..

http://www.parents.com/baby/breastfeeding/basics/avoid-foods-while-breastfeeding/

...By the time the baby is breastfeeding, Dr. Meier says, she is accustomed to the flavors Mom eats. "If a mother has eaten a whole array of different foods during pregnancy, that changes the taste and smell of amniotic fluid that the baby is exposed to and is smelling in utero," she says. "And, basically, the breastfeeding is the next step going from the amniotic fluid into the breast milk." In fact, some items that mothers choose to avoid while breastfeeding, such as spices and spicy foods, are actually enticing to babies. In the early '90s, researchers Julie Mennella and Gary Beauchamp performed a study in which mothers breastfeeding their babies were given a garlic pill while others were given a placebo. The babies nursed longer, sucked harder, and drank more garlic-scented milk than those who had no garlic exposure.

That is some amazing information. Although in Maharashtra pregnant women and women who have delivered a baby are encouraged to eat garlic in their daily diet, of course in moderation. Garlic in food encourages milk production and also keeps flatulence and other digestion problems away from the baby and the mother.

Yes Kalyani, in fact even in my place feeding mothers are fed with a Leha made of Garlic cooked in ghee and jagery made with palm juice during the first 40 days after birth and garlic is added to almost all curries ..