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

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Mandymoo · 01/08/2006 22:49

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?!

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Enid · 01/08/2006 22:50

have just had two large glasses

dd3 sleeps from 9.30 until 4 ish

shazronnie · 01/08/2006 22:50

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

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Mandymoo · 01/08/2006 22:51

hello Enid!

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

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MarsLady · 01/08/2006 22:51

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

Enid · 01/08/2006 22:51

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

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Mandymoo · 01/08/2006 22:53

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

Wine keeps me sane - sad but true!

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CaptainCavemansMummy · 01/08/2006 22:53

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....

olivia35 · 01/08/2006 22:54

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.

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Mandymoo · 01/08/2006 22:54

lol - oooohh i'm all excited now!

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

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MarsLady · 01/08/2006 22:56

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!

Enid · 01/08/2006 22:56

fab

I dont do fish oils either

extract of Macon Lugny here

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Mandymoo · 01/08/2006 22:56

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

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MarsLady · 01/08/2006 22:57

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

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Mandymoo · 04/08/2006 11:57

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?

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Mandymoo · 04/08/2006 12:14

anyone?

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poopy · 04/08/2006 12:17

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

CorrieDale · 04/08/2006 12:34

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

Enid · 04/08/2006 12:43

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

alex8 · 04/08/2006 12:52

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.

Tommy · 04/08/2006 13:00

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

HJ06 · 04/08/2006 13:14

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.

LaDiDaDi · 04/08/2006 18:12

Love that story Enid!

I like breastfeeding much more after a glass of wine

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