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Breastfeeding and wine - the truth please?

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lovecloud · 20/08/2006 22:30

I luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuve wine!

Got into it a big way after having first baby with all the nights in us parents have

So when I fell pregnant this time it was hard getting use to drinking the odd glass now and then.

Now I'm breastfeeding I have half a small glass with Sunday dinner, friends keep telling me I can drink more in evenings as baby sleeps from 7pm to 4am and then back off until 7am.

I heard somewhere that it does not effect your milk after a couple of hours - true or false?

I dont plan on getting legless every week but it would be nice to know I can have a full glass of full bodied fruity wine... mmmmmmm once a week or twice, or three times... only joking

OP posts:
alex8 · 20/08/2006 22:32

the head of bf at my hospital said a glass of wine a day was fine.

vnmum · 20/08/2006 22:34

i was told that it takes about 30 mins to get in your milk then an hour for every unit drunk to leave your milk, so you could time it around feeds if you felt the need

magnolia1 · 20/08/2006 22:39

I used to have a glass every so often when b/f dd4. Sometimes 2 galsses when she was going through the night

JoBaz · 20/08/2006 22:40

well, I have now breastfed for 10mths- for the first 12 weeks I didnt drink a drop- however- once the baby was that bit bigger I started to have the odd glass of wine & my mdwife told me too that this dosent hurt- basically- my max is 2 glasses- if you have it just after a feed- you are then giving it time to get out of your milk-All I have been told is to not have wine & then feed straight away- to wait about 2 hours etc.. but to be honest- one or 2 glasses of wine- once or twice a week will do no harm- I too worried & worried about this as I worry about everything- but I have actually had to fair size glasses & then fed baby about 4 hurs later & he was perfectly fine?? so dont worry- in moderation is fine & my health visitor agrees

alex8 · 20/08/2006 22:50

I'm just so glad I got the advice I did about alcohol. Everyone else got told much more restrictive things. I breastfed for a year.

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lovecloud · 20/08/2006 22:52

Thanks - makes me feel better.
Was at a restaurant today and had my usual small glass but felt really naughty whilst drinking it and immediately downed a large glass of water.

I do try to not feed straight after.

So I think I will increase to one full glass a week in the evening when she is in bed, there would be a 7 hours or more before she is fed next so that should be fine right?

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JoBaz · 20/08/2006 23:01

honestly- you couldnt get a mum that worrys more than me- I make all his food- never give sugar- etc.. etc.. Im over the top wprrying & I honestly can say the wines fine- dont you dare feel guilty- you are giving your child the most presious start in life & it takes alot of hard work to breast feed & so you deserve a little treat- & it will do him no harm! I went to a wedding last night- I had 2 glasses of wine & a sip of champers & hes fine- no probs-
Also- my friend breastfed till 6 mths- but had terrible probs getting started-one day the midwife was there & my friend was going to give up & was getting all flustered & the midwife actually sent her hubby to the get a bottle of wine & sat & made her drink a large glass- she said the stress was causing her to have probs & that a glass of wine would relax her to feed & would not do baby any harm atal- mso there you go- that baby was 5 days old-
xx

Bouj · 20/08/2006 23:24

Ds2 is 15 weeks (same as yours LC?) and I have had wine most nights since he was born. They served it with lunch and dinner in the maternity hospital where he was born! Have read a fair bit on the internet, and on here, and have come to the conclusion that if you are sensible (ie. don't drink immediately before, or consume vast quantities of vodka, etc) that it's fine. He goes down at about 6.30pm and I have two glasses with dinner, and he goes through til about 2am. Of coursethere has been the odd occasion he has woken for a feed at 11pm or so! But he is a happy healthy baby, and I figure a happy mummy is a good thing!

MarsLady · 20/08/2006 23:59

I drank red wine throughout my pregnancies and after the babies were born. Strangely even when I was really sick whilst pregnant with the DTs I was able to drink red wine... couldn't drink water.... but red wine... lol

It's fine honey. Relax and enjoy the wine!

PrettyCandles · 21/08/2006 00:03

I had a brilliant HV who recommended that I have a half of Guiness every evening! She was indeed brilliant, I'm not being sarcastic, and I valued her advice. Unfortunately I loathe Guiness .

MarsLady · 21/08/2006 00:15

If you pop a bit of blackcurrant cordial into the guiness it takes away the bitter taste. Full of iron. Wonderful stuff. Drank that through the pregnancies as well.

I'm sensing at theme................

PrettyCandles · 21/08/2006 00:18

Does it now? Hmmmmm...

Not that I'm bfing, but Guiness does look and smell divine. Though dh might have a fit if I 'contaminated' a Guiness in this way.

IIRC that's a student's drink, isn't it? Something and Black?

MarsLady · 21/08/2006 00:20

Just don't tell him pretty.... lol. Whilst he's not looking slip a bit in your glass. That's how I drink it when I can't face the bitter. Did that through the pregnancies. Except the DT pregnancy when I loved it bitter!

I remember it as a student drink... but not the name. Sigh.................. those were the days....... lol

vnmum · 21/08/2006 06:40

was the student drink you are all talking about snakebite and black. tastes like sasparella. yummy but very potent

DollyP · 21/08/2006 09:47

We had guiness and black at university. Was it called a purple velvet? Purple something? we also had purple nasties, which were pernod and black poured into snakebite! Lethal, so I am told. I used to drink wine by the bottle so all these things involving ribena passed me by....

Wine and BF - yes you can, a unit an hour leaves the bloodstream. So if you had a glass in the evening, you would be fine by 4am. I think so long as you don't overdo it (as looking after a baby with a hangover is awful!) moderate drinking is fine. I drank when BF (even quite a lot on holiday!) and all well here.

fluffyanimal · 21/08/2006 09:49

MarsLady - I presume DTs means dear twins, but when talking about drinking wine, it looks like you mean delirium tremens!!!

vnmum · 21/08/2006 10:03

the new drink of the moment i think is a cheeky vimto - blue wkd and a large shot of port. it just tastes like vimto and is quite lethal. the drink of choice may be something new though and i may be behind the times

MarsLady · 21/08/2006 10:27

deffo Darling Twins lol............. (of course....... lol)

laudaud · 21/08/2006 10:45

I had read Delirium Tremens and was slightly concerned

hotmama · 21/08/2006 10:49

I have a couple glasses of wine a couple of times a week. I have them after dd2's last feed - but if she wakes up then she has red wine bm!

I find I can't drink loads anymore (I fall asleep!)

I would think as long as you're not having a bottle a night then you're O.K.

Cappuccino · 21/08/2006 10:51

my health visitor said make a bottle of wine last two nights between two of you.

and we did drink most nights. I read a lot of medical reports online and decided that this was fine and never felt bad about it.

Cappuccino · 21/08/2006 10:52

sometimes dd would wake up before my units had gone but I thought well, if she will wake up early, you can't blame me for that

hobbsnboo · 01/10/2006 18:10

Thank you!!

I feel sooooooooooo much better for reading this thread.

I miss alcohol and was really good during my pregnancy but after nearly a year I crave wine.

Am going to drink (sensibly!) with an easy heart.

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