Ok to have a glass of wine?

[madridbaby]

I've just been reading the thread on the "Health" board about whether drinking a bottle of wine a night makes you an alcoholic or not. Quite interesting. It made me wonder what MNers thought about drinking -in moderation of course - and BFing.

I hardly drank at all, even a sip of wine, while pregnant -mostly as I went off the idea completely - in fact, my aversion to alcohol was one of the things that made me realise I was pregnant in the first place.

I am now BFing and I do have a glass of wine in the evening once my baby is asleep. He's in bed by 8pm and doesn't wake up before 11.30 so I reckon I can have a glass of wine with dinner and it will be gone from my system before the next feed.

However, I DO look forward to that glass of wine, especially if it has been a difficult day - some days I am cracking open the bottle the minute his eyes have closed... I wouldn't want to give it up, and to be honest, even if I was going to feed him within an hour or two of drinking it, I'd be tempted to still have it.

Does this make me a bad mother or someone with a problem?

Nothing wrong with you at all. I used to drink a lovely large glass of red (or two) each evening. I have 5 children and they're still doing well.

i have the odd glass and am bf-ing.

i think it is fine. not getting trollied though... apart from anything babies and hangovers aren't any fun.

oh good! you are all making me feel much better

I do the same most evenings and I have done since the start. Some of us enjoy and appreciate wine, those that are hardliners on this issue often don't so don't miss it. Also people often use it as an excuse to stop BFing which is sad.

I drink as and when I want while breastfeeding, it hasn't had any effect on my kids.

I get days where I just have to have a nice bottle of wine and some good chocolate!
It's perfectly fine, you'd have to drink tons to make it effect the baby.

I do the same here too. Cheers!

Oh, also I don't necessarily wait til his last feed, he goes to bed around 9ish, I often enjoy a glass as soon as the elder DC's are in bed at 8, so his last feed I'm sometimes drinking during.