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Alcohol guilt

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PurpleCurtain · 21/11/2021 22:07

Home alone tonight looking after our 4 month old DS. One of those nights where everything was going wrong, so I poured myself a gin and tonic and sat down on the sofa with DS for a cuddle. He quickly got agitated and was hungry so I fed him - but I absentmindedly also drank all of my gin and tonic during the first 5 minutes of his approx 25 minute feed. At about that 25 minute point I realised I felt really quite drunk and took him off. It was intended to be a single measure of gin, but I guess could have easily been a double as I poured it quickly and haven't poured myself a gin since before I was pregnant. I ate a couple of hours before.

I feel immensely guilty and am sure will get some telling me I'm an awful and irresponsible mother. I have generally been happy to drink while breastfeeding, but usually it's 1 x small drink two or three nights a week and I wait a couple of hours before feeding.

How bad is it to have had this (possibly double) drink, and immediately fed him? Is it a 'slightly disrupted sleep' situation (so long as I'm more careful in future) or are there serious potential effects I need to watch out for?

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User65412 · 21/11/2021 22:09

There will be no effect.
Even if you drank enough to be so hammered you'd need your stomach pumped, your milk would only be as alcoholic as orange juice.

Magissa · 21/11/2021 22:22

Lots of factors to consider but don't feel guilty baby will be fine! Some good info here.

www.laleche.org.uk/alcohol-and-breastfeeding/

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