Can I have a drink tonight please?

[Berrie]

I've been really really good but I would like to have more than 2 glasses of wine tonight. Now that My 8 month old does not have a feed until 4.30 am do you think it is ok to have more or would it be terrible?

[mit]

Go for it Berrie! My dd doesn't feed until 7am so I'm happy to have more than my regulation 2....however due to having not had more than 2 glasses of wine for well over a year I'm totally sloshed by 2.5......LOL
Enjoy.....

[Berrie]

But does your dd have overly rosy cheeks slur her babbling and hiccup a lot? I jest but do you know what the advice is at this stage? I know that the alcohol doesn't pass into the milk so what does and does it pass out again?

[mit]

LOL Berrie - no, dd is perfectly fine...actually she does have rosy cheeks....hee hee. I've only ever had 3 glasses, and that's only been a few times so I'm not worried about it. I believe the advice (and I'm in the US where they are mega mega strict) is no alcohol at all whilst bf - however I think in the UK things are a bit more relaxed. I read somewhere that alcohol can get into the milk but in microscopic quantities, something like if you have a glass of wine and then feed your baby 2 hours later, baby will have the equivalent to an adult having a teaspoon.....ie. virtually nothing. I'm not sure what else passes into the milk - though I heard a funny story of someone drinking a high energy sports drink (dyed bright blue with some evil food colouring) and her milk came out pale blue when she expressed it......so I guess lots of things go into milk.

I think there are far wiser and more expererienced people on MN so hopefully someone else will respond.

mit x

[Berrie]

BLEURGH blue breastmilk! When ds was new, an older woman was telling me that she used to put a teaspoon of whisky in her baby's bottle to make him sleep. He grew up to be fairly normal but that's horrific! I must admit that on New Years' Eve I arranged to give ds expressed milk and shared a bottle of champagne with dh. Unfortunatly ds screamed so long and hard when trying to give him the bottle for some unknown reason that I ended up breastfeeding him anyway. he didn't seem to suffer or sleep any longer come to think of it!!

[karen99]

Hi Berrie, I've heard (on MN!) that alcohol only stays in your breast milk for the same length of time it's in your blood, which is approx 2hrs per unit... HTH and have a nice evening!

[Berrie]

Will do!
Am amazed at how the site has slowed down since I posted the message at 6.23pm. It's kind of nice to think of all those Mums out there who have finally put there children to bed. Shall I risk waking my own by calling for dh to bring me a glass of wine?

[mears]

Berrie, drink as much as you like

[highlander]

how's the hangover today ?!

[Berrie]

Dear Highlander,
Disapointment! After all this time, forgot that a bottle shared is little more than a couple of glasses anyway - didn't have the energy to go out for more. Still there's always another day!