What do i do about my milk?

[HelenEmjay]

I have some of my girlfriends coming round tommorow night for a take out and a bottle of wine (or 3!!) im exclusively breastfeeding my 6 week old dd though so what do i do about my milk? obviously i dont want her to be a p**sed as me so do i give her formula? - i really dont want to! but i have found it difficult to express any so far as im always feeding her! well every 1-2 hours! How does it work - how long before the alcohol will be out of my milk? how much can i safely drink while still feeding her if any? im looking forward to my girly night but i dont want to disrupt dd's routine too much! Any bfeeding experts out there to educate my ignorant brain! im really lost on this one!

no idea but will bump for you to see if anyone else can help.

I am amazed that you are able to contemplate a night out (in) at 6 weeks, I think I was stil wafting round in my scruffs wailing that my life was over at that stage.

xx

I don't think anyone really knows how long the alcohol stays in your system and how it would affect your baby. Personally, I would not risk even having one drink (I have a baby the same age as yours and am exclusively bf as well). If my friends could not respect my views then I would ask them not to come over.

If you give her formula, you do risk your milk supply dropping (depends on how many feeds you miss, of course).

Hope someone more knowledgable comes to advise you soon.

You can express little bits of bm and freeze them, and then add them all together when you defrost. this might work for you.

Enjoy the night with the girls. I hope you find a solution that works for you.

My breast feeding specialist midwives told me not to worry! (They also told me I shouldn't have thrown away a load of expressed milk from the time I had been on strong antibiotics)

My GP best friends (husband and wife) said that it might, just might make the baby sleepier.

When I had a blow-out meal (with lots of really good wine) in celbration of ds' birth, I compormosied: as I was good at expressing, I expressed my milk that night, and labelled it "alcholic" - and gave it to ds when I was needing him to sleep!

But then, I'm a baaaaaad mother!

BTW - I breastfed ds for a full year (and that included stocking up for 9 days away skiing without ds - and expressing a freezing it all while I was away).

Search the archives for Tiktok and alcohol - basically, it doesn't matter.

Enjoy your night out, don't worry about formula.

that's the point prettybird. It might affect the milk. It might not. No one really knows.

One tip someone mentioned to me once was to drink after bf (rather than before) if poss. But if your are feeding every 1 to 2 hours then just about anytime you drink is going to be before a feed.

You need to do whatever you feel comfortable with.

Just feed on as normal ..... I'm currently b/f'ing and certainly don't compromise on the odd over-indulgent evening! You would really have to booze heavily on a regular basis for it to have any effect on your baby.

don't see problem if you only have 1 or 2 small glasses. FGS you still should have time out, even with such a little one-probably do you both good! Try to put baby down first before you drink,hve lots of water as well as wine and wait 90 mins or so after drinking b4 bfing. Check out the following for reassurance:
pdfsalcoholandbf.pdf
HTH

AAH! Link didn't work...
www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/pdfs/alcoholandbf.pdf

Thread in which Tiktok posts some good links explaining why it doesn't matter

Pretty bird - I love the "alcholic" label!!!! Might have to remember that...

lol OrribleOliveoil on the wailing your life was over!!! - dd is my third so not sure if i just 'got myself back' quicker 3rd time round! Seem to spend my life with a baby attached to a boob - need abit of me-time before i crack! wouldnt alcohol pass into my milk? or does it just pass in small amounts? i know absolutely NOTHING about it at all will go to the links though......

Just off to get dd weighed! - she put on 11oz week before last and 12.5 oz on last week! really curious to see how much this week - think i have mega fatty milk or something!