to think that this advice on alcohol and breastfeeding is a bit contradictory?

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Just googling alcohol and breastfeeding as I remember drinking a little bit when I was breastfeeding and DD was in bed but can't really remember much about safe amounts.

Found this quote on the drinkaware page:

Janet Fyle, professional policy advisor at the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), believes that saying it?s fine to drink in moderation sends out the wrong signals.

?The RCM advises abstinence in pregnancy and during breastfeeding,? says Janet. ?In the light of all the evidence, we believe cumulative alcohol consumption can be harmful to mother and baby.?

Telling women that it?s OK to drink in moderation is dangerous, Janet says. ?What is moderation? If someone is consuming alcohol regularly, it?s very easy for them to cross the line.? Mothers with post-natal depression or those who lack support could be particularly at risk.

However, while abstinence is the College?s official policy, Janet stresses that midwives are encouraged to take an individual?s circumstances into account. ?We?re not trying to tell people how to live their lives. If someone says ?I?m going off to a wedding, can I have a glass of champagne??, that?s different.?

Does anyone else find this advice a bit strange?

On that piece on Woman's Hour that someone else linked to, one of the speakers said that what she found so demoralising about the 'don't drink at all' advice was that FAS is pretty rare. And that the biggest killer of unborn foetuses is women's partners beating them up when they are drunk. So where is the public health campaign on that?

Plus, doesn't alcohol pass into milk at the same rate as into blood? Which, given that the drink drive limit is 0.08%, means you'd have to be pretty smashed for your milk to actually be more alcoholic than old-fashioned gripe water...

Gripe water used to be 3.6% . Now that I did not know.

LadyBiscuit you are not suggesting that men be asked to control something that they do with their bodies are you?

Probably those women got pregnant on purpose, just to wind their husbands up.

I know Morloth. I'm being absurd as usual

LadyBiscuit that's awful about domestic violence, and as you say, where is the real public awareness about that? It's just so easy to have a go at women isn't it