BFing Mums - How much alcohol do you drink atm?

[Mandymoo]

What is your daily alcohol consumption whilst you are bfing? I have 1 glass on a Fri and Sat night but could quite easily have more

How much do you drink (if any)?

Hi new here.
I am no a big drinker anyway but one maybe 2 if we have wine at weekend or very rarely 1 bottle beer sometimes fancy another though too

Perhaps have 2 glasses of wine twice a week - tops. I'm not a big drinker and I fall asleep really quickly when drinking - so like to be awake when the dd's are sleeping in the evening.

I have the drinks after the last bf- so I think this is O.K.

DS is 9 months and I haven't had a drop since I was first pg. I am aware that it's probably fine to have a couple, but being pg and bf is the kick up the bum I needed to make me stop. Makes me sound like I had a problem (I didn't), but I can say that I really don't miss drinking any more (I did to start with) and doubt if I will re start once I stop bf.

Nuff.
I can't possibly contemplate the next few days without it to be honest. I don't even think I'd put a limit on it. Mind you my 'baby' is 18 months old and the size of a prop forward. He only feeds 2/3 times a day now.

I have a small drink occasionally at the weekend but i'm not really that interested anymore. It's been so long that I only have to sniff alcohol to feel tipsy.

I can go for weeks without a drink, but once I've opened the bottle, I'll have half on Fri and half on Sat. After DS's last feed. (Although if he wakes before 9pm, then I'll feed him again, even if I've had the half-bot.)

When I was bfing (5 years ago ow) I went back to drinking relatively normally, ie 10-14 units a week.

The one time I wanted a blow out, when ds was about 3 months old, I expressed the milk and labelled it as "alcoholic" - to be given to ds when we wanted to be sure he would sleep!

This was on the advice of various breast feeding experts and my best friend who is a GP (and breast feeder herslef) that very little alchol actually gets thorugh into the breast milk and that even if it did, the worst that the miniscule amount would do would be to make the baby a bit sleepy.

Think ds eventually got his "alcoholic" EBM when he was about 8 or 9 months old.

I drink 1-2 glasses of wine about once or twice a week. TBH I'm a real lightweight drinker and this makes me giddy . I tend to drink early on in the evening as often through the night dd and I end up co-sleeping and I worry that if I drank later on that I might squash her in the night but I figure that if I drink at 7-8pm I won't be affected by 3-4am which is when she usually comes in to bed. I worry about squashing much more than I worry about alcohol in breastmilk which is meant to be minimal.

LOL prettybird. What a great idea. Sleep potion.

1 or occasionally 2 glasses of wine a night, after dd has gone to bed. I know she won't have a feed until 5am at the earliest after that so alcohol will be long gone by then. She's 16mths btw.

I've had about 3 drinks since DD2 was born (6 months ago).

With DD1 I hardly had any either, it just doesn't bother me.

I don't drink at all.

Before I got up the duff again it was 1-2 glasses of wine twice a week - "baby" is a toddler now though

when i feel like it - not to excess though

'baby' is 17 months now though

Nothing now as I am pg again.

When DD was small (up to about 7-8 months), I was very moderate most of the time and had one glass of wine 3-4 times a week. Went up by quite a bit when I was on holiday in Italy for a fortnight and DD was 5 months old but generally didn't overdo it as looking after a baby with a hangover is no fun.

Since 7-8 months, I have drunk a bit more on occasions (and have actually BF when quite pissed ) but DD (now 15 months) is fine.

Couple of glasses a night, most nights.

Tinker - how old is your "baby"?

14 months mm