Hi ladies,
I know I'm leaving this one a bit late (check my ticker lol, nothing to report yet!), but honestly this just occurred to me when I talked to my mum this afternoon and now I'm freaking out a bit.

I have no previous history of lactose intolerance, or any food intolerance for that matter. I'm not asthmatic, don't have sensitive skin, have never felt ill after eating anything (except when I've eaten too much of a good thing lol).

When I was pg with DD, I ate bucketloads of dairy food - yoghurt, ice-cream, cheese on everything, milkmilkmilkmilkmilk (probably too much!) and never had a problem. (Nor has DD, has at least three serves of dairy a day - probably too much actually, but she loves it - and never appears to be adversely affected by it.)

But this time around, and like I said I really never noticed this until yesterday, and it's only today that I've put two and two together (although they may not equal 'four' as I assume they do), I seem to be really ill after consuming dairy products.
I usually eat a bowl of cereal for breakfast, and put it down to morning sickness that soon after finishing my cereal, I would feel nauseous or just generally lethargic, sick and not good in the belly.
My little 'treats' to myself (seeing as I can't eat some of my favourite foods) are things like milkshakes or flavoured milk - if I'm in town and the craving hits me, I'll pop into Cold Rock (because the meanie at Wendy's won't make me a thickshake with dairy icecream instead of soft serve anymore, I miss my Mega-Choc shakes!) and grab a chocolate thickshake or something, and when I do the grocery shopping I grab a little carton of Breaka to drink on the way home... and yup, I feel absolutely rotten afterwards, for hours!

Soy milk isn't giving me the same gut problems, I've been trying to drink that instead but it just tastes awful in tea lol, so I suck it up, have my tea with full-cream dairy and regret it later, but I'm just wondering if it's at all possible that bub has a lactose intolerance and I'm getting the bad effects on her behalf, or that somehow I've just developed a lactose intolerance out of the blue? Is that even possible? Will it go away when the baby's born and the hormones subside? If it's the baby suffering the intolerance, could I be harming her by consuming dairy products, and what signs do I look for once she's born that she might be allergic to cows? I intend on breastfeeding this time around, if bub does have a lactose intolerance will that mean I have to avoid dairy for the duration of BFing to prevent any getting into breastmilk?

I'm so clueless lol... just looking for any advice on this one.