Girl Scout Cookies and Their Effects on Breastmilk

This past weekend my Girl Scout cookie order was delivered. This is a familiar and coveted time of year because most of us have just about rid our pantries of treat remnants from the previous year. While we feel righteous for having finally tossed out the remaining Halloween candy, deep down we still desire a stash of something not so great for the waistline tucked away on that shelf that no one else in the family thinks of.

For a mere $3.50, you can buy a box of Girl Scout cookies. It takes about a month for them to arrive and then approximately 15 seconds to put four Thin Mints at once into your mouth. They have come a long way to contributing to diet downfalls since they started offering things other than the insignia bearing shortbread.

The wealth of offerings makes it all the more difficult to behave as a breastfeeding mom. Maybe you are behaving because you are concerned about your baby’s sensitivity to things like chocolate or dairy or perhaps you are taking advantage of the calorie burning benefits of breastfeeding to shed pregnancy pounds. Either way the relative low cost and high yum value of Girl Scout cookies makes it all the more likely that baby will get his first “taste” of Caramel Delights before the age of one.

Per my previous post about sane moms and potential allergens in their diets, it is important to keep your wits about you as a parent. While a baby might not notice the chocolate in three cookies, he is likely to punish you with fussiness and copious diaper changes if you eat the whole box. This is a good time to practice restraint. Treat yourself after baby goes to bed and give your milk a bit longer to metabolize the chocolate while you still get those sanity benefits. Restraint is a talent that will come in handy time and again in parenthood and life. Why not learn it by making that $3.50 box of Thanks-a-Lot last a lot longer?

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