![]() If our babies are sensitive to kombucha when they’re earthside, imagine how much more sensitive a developing baby in the womb would be to stress, increased detox elimination, or microbial imbalances. The same rules apply - pregnancy is not the time to be starting to drink kombucha - because it can make you detox, it can alter your gut bacteria balance (sometimes for the worse not better), and it can stimulate your adrenals and your stress response. While we are primarily focused on breastfeeding, it’s important to consider these same reasons for drinking kombucha while pregnant. Otherwise, I always recommend you start with prebiotics rather than probiotics for a gut support regime. If you’re concerned with gut support, it is best to see someone like Michele (our gut health naturopath for babies and mums). ![]() ![]() Plus, babies inherit a lot of their mother’s gut microbiome so it likely indicates your baby has the same issue, which would be amplified if you’re passing even more lactobacillus through the milk. If you are already high in lactobacillus, you can make your gut imbalances worse. From my experience in practice, seeing a number of Bioscreen stool analyses, many people with chronic health issues are already high in lactobacillus (and low in other bacteria), which means drinking kombucha is going to make your gut more imbalanced. If you already have some gut health issues, I would be encouraging you to test and know what is in your gut before adding in more lactobacillus. It is important to note that the majority of kombucha is lactobacillus strains. It is claimed to have health benefits because the fermentation leads to probiotic properties. There’s an undeniable connection between mother and baby that needs to be honoured. Why am I telling you this? Because then if you consider what kombucha is doing to your baby’s body, triggering some adrenal release of cortisol, if their body is already stressed from the pregnancy, is it possible that their system could easily get fatigued adrenals from small amounts of caffeine in the milk? This is my wondering, as I have noticed in practice that helping irritability in babies has better outcomes when I work with both mother and baby. If you have had a stressful pregnancy, or diagnosed adrenal fatigue before/during pregnancy, this will impact your baby’s ability to handle stress. This is where the adrenals are forced to produce high amounts of cortisol for prolonged periods of time that the reach the point of fatigue and cannot produce enough cortisol. However, if this is the case it will further stress the adrenals and potentially lead to adrenal fatigue. Kombucha stimulates the adrenals to produce additional cortisol, which your body might want if you’re sleep deprived or exhausted from being a mother. If you’re craving kombucha in the way someone might crave coffee, then you might be using it in an unhealthy way.
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