wrote:

Sounds like your child is having a reaction more likely from your
milk.

This is not likely.

Believe it or not they can taste certain flavors and spices
from food we eat ourselves distrubutited in thier breastmilk.

Babies can absolutely taste flavors and spices
from our diet. Plenty of studies confirm this -
squirrels that don't normally like lemon flavors
prefer lemon-flavored breastmilk if their mother
had lemon flavors injected into their amniotic
fluid. There is no doubt about this.

It is
very important in the first few weeks of nursing to consume a very
bland diet.

But, there is no reason to eat a bland diet!
Mothers in Mexico and India can still eat spicy
foods. Mothers in Japan can still eat raw fish.
You should eat normally.

The only reason to curtail your eating habits
if is an allergy or sensitivity is suspected.
Flavors is not a reason to change your diet.

Also do not wash your breasts with soap when nursing as
infants will react to the bitter taste left behind from the soap and
not latch on.

Do not wash your breasts with soap because the
breasts produce oils that clean themselves. It's
not because of the flavor.

To the OP: try googline "overactive letdown". You
could possibly pump first, then nurse. Or, when
using the bottle, use the slowest flow nipple.

-- Anita --