Can i drink sparkling water whilst breast feeding as tonic water is a no no?? Substitutes for drinks (no alcohol)

[Jellybabie3]

I'm not drinking alcohol but thought I could have sparkling water as a sub for tonic water but i have heard it's too high in sodium. What can i have??

You can have a drink when you are breastfeeding! Don't go crazy but of course you can.

If you do want to stay alcohol free then I can really recommend from co op their non alcoholic gin and tonic (4 silver cans for £1.49) on the shelf with the soft drinks, it is slightly flavoured tonic.

All the supermarkets also sell non alcoholic lager. Becks blue is the market leader but I prefer the Heineken one or Budweiser.

Koppaberg also do non alc ciders, so sweet but very refreshing!

Enjoy.

This reminds me of a debunked myth I read - that you could avoid malaria by just drinking G&Ts, thanks to the quinine turns out to get a decent enough quinine reading in your blood, you'd need to be drinking 18L a day of tonic water. So before you hit the useful level of quinine, your kidneys would be in trouble and the associated amount of gin would have you passed out in any event

If you do want to stay alcohol free then I can really recommend from co op their non alcoholic gin and tonic (4 silver cans for £1.49) on the shelf with the soft drinks, it is slightly flavoured tonic.

Thanks for the tip: will be useful for me and also for heavily pg SIL.

You can literally drink anything you want while bf!

I wonder if the low sodium thing originates from countries like France where they often use boiled bottled water to make up formula and you are advised to avoid bottled water with a higher sodium content when making up formula. Maybe someone has taken this to mean you can’t have higher sodium drinks (i.e tonic) when feeding in general?