Did you ever have any alcohol when breastfeeding?

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Baby is a week old and I'm definitely not ready for a drink yet but would a glass of wine with lunch one day in a few weeks cause any harm?

Did you have a drink when bf?

I had the odd glass of wine now and again, yes.

Yes

I had some wine on Christmas Day, by which point my dd was 11 months old. Was the first night she ever slept through as well. Not sure if the two were connected. I’m sure I didn’t have that much wine and she was well into the weaning process by then too.

Yes. As long as you're sensible you'll be fine. I did find I'd be more thirsty the day after a drink as I was dehydrated but otherwise fine.

Yes. There’s research on this if you google which suggests very little alcohol is in your milk (and it disperses from your milk at the same rate as from your blood, so the idea that you need to “pump and dump” the morning after a night out is a myth). I had a glass of wine most Friday and Saturday nights whilst bfing.

Yes, just don't go mad. Stick to one small one, it'll save your sanity. I think the same applies to pregnancy post first trimester too, really.

They can't ever do clinical studies on these things because it would be unethical. But a single drink is processed by your body rapidly, it's when you have several that the alcohol can't be processed quickly enough and passes over the placenta, into milk etc.

Yes, I typically have a glass of wine on a Friday and Saturday. Very little passes into your milk and I've never noticed any difference in DD when I've had a drink. I find my decisions are far more influenced by not wanting to get up in the night after having a drink!

Drinking alcohol while breastfeeding is totally fine. The risks would be physically holding your baby while drunk rather than the milk.

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As a general rule, drinking alcohol and breastfeeding is fine as long as you’re sober enough to safely care for your baby.

The alcohol content in breastmilk is the same as the alcohol content in your blood, so breastmilk won’t be alcoholic enough to affect a baby.

But, any co-sleeping should be totally avoided if you’ve been drinking.

(I had five small drinks on special occasions during my pregnancy, and see drinking while BF as being completely different.)

Yes the odd glass, but I did find that the taste of wine was really foul despite enjoying wine before pregnancy.

Went to a breastfeeding workshop recently and midwife said it’s absolutely fine.

She says pump and dump is nonsense and your body metabolises alcohol out your milk at the same rate as your blood.

She said the general rule is if you’re safe to drive you’re safe to feed.

It's completely different from drinking when pregnant, you'd have to be unconscious before your baby got any significant amount of alcohol in your milk. So yes, I did, though tbh I was so knackered most of the time I couldn't face more than 1 or 2 drinks!

Yes I definitely did. As others have said the need to ‘pump and dump’ is a myth, unless you’re comatose through alcohol poisoning in which case you have bigger problems 😉

The biggest concern would / should be, being too drunk to look after a baby and being hungover looking after a baby.
The former being a huge no no, the latter being, well just hell on earth

We co-sleep so I have no more than half a glass of wine but if he’d reliably sleep in his cot, I’d have no problem having a couple of glasses.

Yes I'll have a few drinks and have since he was a few weeks old. If you're safe to hold baby you're safe to feed baby. We co sleep usually though so I don't drink often because it's a pain trying to get him to sleep in his crib.