peanut butter

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Is peanut butter a bad choice for nursing mothers? I have a client who

wants to eat it.

Thanks, Sonya

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Not unless nuts are strongly allergenic for the family. It would have been worse

if the mom had sensitized her baby to peanuts in utero but through the breast

milk shouldn't be a problem now. At least from an allopathic point of view. I'l

be interested in the ayurvedic angle.

 

 

>sonyabastow <sonya

>Sep 2, 2008 12:49 AM

>ayurveda

>PerinatalAyurveda forum peanut butter

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>Is peanut butter a bad choice for nursing mothers? I have a client who

>wants to eat it.

>Thanks, Sonya

>

 

 

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Hi Sonya -

 

Not having heard my teachers comment on this, here is my way of

working with the same questions, and client experience. Although

peanuts are not really a nut but a legume, and have a more dulling

effect on the mind being tamasic, they tend to better than the other

legumes (undoubtedly having also a different protein profile, that's

for another discussion as I don't know it) - and I've also seen from a

non-Ayurvedic body type system (Carolyn Mein's extensive work as a

dietitian on her 25 body type system, blessed by jyotish astrologer as

knowledgeable, valuable!) that certain " body types " she calls Gall

bladder types - my mother is among them, do really well with peanut

butter and tend to favor it among all the " nuts " .

 

Listen to people's cravings and adjust them by ayurvedic principles

for the first couple postpartum months or whenever - by agni and other

supports as you can.

 

For instance, with peanut butter, if that is what is in the mother's

desire or kitchen, if possible just like with the other nut butters,

We can thin, warm, digestively/deliciously spice it for her weak

digestive fire, maybe making a sauce for vegetables and rice, or a nut

milk, or a spread with some honey and flax oil on unleavened breads.

It will lessen the vata in the flax oil, make it more palatable, thin

the heaviness and tamasic properties (also try cardamom cinnamon

ginger), and so many are so low on the EFA3s also....And this

concoction (also do with other nut butters) Mothers have been

delighted with the taste, texture and specialness which is so easy to

create.

 

For Baby, just as for Mom, the same issues as you know Sonya. If

Mom's milk is too heavy, tamasic, or Mom is simply not digesting her

food properly, Baby may have related issues.

 

Blessings,

Ysha

 

> Is peanut butter a bad choice for nursing mothers? I have a client

who wants to eat it.