I'm BFing 13 week old - am i allowed a couple glasses of wine?

[Mandymoo]

Been invited out tomorrow night - ds has last feed at 7 and then usually sleeps through til 1am ish. Fancy having a couple of glasses of wine with my meal - would this be ok or should i be thoroughly ashamed of myself?!

have just had two large glasses

dd3 sleeps from 9.30 until 4 ish

Enjoy a couple of glasses, you'll be fine just be careful of falling asleep over dessert!

hello Enid!

So........ i should be ok to have a couple then?!

I always did and I have 5 lovely healthy ones (children not drinks lol)

well have no idea whether its ok

will let you know in 7 years when the SATS results come through

but jolly nice though

make them good quality ones

i love it when people tell me what i want to hear!!!!

Wine keeps me sane - sad but true!

hee hee, glad there are people like me out there - only I never stopped to ask anyone if it was a bad idea!!!
Ds now 2 and hasn't yet got an ASBO to his name....

It'll be fine. Lots of threads on here on this very subject.

If ds drinks from a bottle, you COULD express a feed for dh to give him at 1am, thereby not disturbing your dancing on tables/drunken stupor (whichever you've reached by 1am).

Seriously, if it's a couple of glasses with a meal, presumably a couple of hours before 1am, it'll be long gone.

lol - oooohh i'm all excited now!

Isnt it sad when the highlight of my week is 2 glasses of wine!

It's okay Enid. I've had lots of SATs results through. Got DS1 into a selective school as well. I can only conclude that the wine drinking has just gotta help. Never mind those fish oils... wine's the way to go!

fab

I dont do fish oils either

extract of Macon Lugny here

well, if you say so MarsLady.........................................................

clink!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ooops - i had 3 glasses of wine last night

If my last drink was at 10pm and ds was fed at 1.30am - would there have been any alcohol in my milk?

anyone?

I had a couple of glasses of wine 24 hours after DD was born
Don't know the answer to your question Mandymoo ... I wouldn't worry about it if I were you

There might have been - depends on your weight. but it'll have only been the tiniest amount. i really wouldn't worry.

I had large glass of champagne about 5 minutes after dd3 was born

best friend was dangling it over the edge of hte birthing pool as encouragement

the head of bf at my maternity hospital said a glass of wine very day was absolutely fine. I stuck to it rigidly with occassionally doubling of the dose.

what a great friend you have Enid!
I think all things in moderation when it comes to breastfeeding. I have a great memory of sitting in a pub garden feeding DS2 in one hand and holding a lovely pint of beer in the other - god knows what other people thought but it was lovely

Went out with my mum, left ebm for dh to feed ds when he woke up in the night and for the first feed in the morning. I did have to express in the morning though (as it may have still had vodca in it).
Also had a couple at his naming party while feeding him.
What i mean is you still have to have fun, and a happy mum means a happy baby, so if you need to give ebm, and let daddy get up in the night.

Love that story Enid!

I like breastfeeding much more after a glass of wine