When you get pregnant, food literally takes a bigger place in your daily life. The hormones generated during pregnancy create new taste cravings and make us sensitive to food cravings. We then develop a passion for foods that did not necessarily interest us before. Among them is pepper. Can we eat very spicy or spicy when we are expecting a child?
Unsurprisingly, the questions that come up most often in the mouths of expectant mothers concern thefeed. Since they sometimes eat “for two”, their food cravings diversify and their pregnancy cravings multiply, they often wonder what foods to avoid or what foods are forbidden to preserve the health of the baby. future baby.
Indeed, their diet has a direct impact on the fetus, via the placenta, the umbilical cord, but also via the amniotic fluid. If we know that raw foods (such as fish or raw milk cheeses) are to be limited, what about pepper and spices ? Present in many traditional kitchens, should we eliminate them from our diet during pregnancy?
Pregnant women who love spicy food can be reassured: consuming peppers and spices, even in large quantities, does not no negative impact on the health of the future baby. Admittedly, scientists and medical professionals have highlighted a significant consequence on the fetus but, contrary to what one might think, this is rather positive.
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Consuming spicy foods and dishes during pregnancy will simply scent and add flavor to amniotic fluid in which the baby bathes. A scientific study* conducted in 2019 also corroborates these statements. However, we know that the latter swallows amniotic fluid when he is in his mother’s belly. He filters it, eliminates it via his urine, and so on.
Eat spicy food when you are pregnant therefore allows the baby, from an early age, to taste several different flavors, to “develop one’s palate” and to feed a fertile taste curiosity with the consumption of a great diversity of flavors once arrived at adulthood. The tastes of the baby are formed from the 15th week of pregnancy. In this sense, “many scientific studies have shown that babies exposed to more types of food, through their mother’s diet, may be more willing to eat a variety later in life”says Dr. Heather Richardson to our colleagues at Romper.com.
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If you are already thinking about the after-birth of your baby, and the idea of eating spicy foods while breastfeeding crosses your mind, the conclusion is the same: there is no danger in sight for the newborn. Spices and chilli just go flavor your breast milkjust as they did for amniotic fluid.
So don’t stop yourself from eating spicy or spicy food: by doing so, you are not harming your child’s health. The only risk is that you pass on your love for chilli!
Open-minded and in love with life, Emilie likes to decipher the new phenomena that shape society and relationships today. Her passion for the human being motivates her to write…