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Is my having the odd glass of wine really having this dramatic an effect on BF ds?

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MaMight · 03/02/2010 09:50

Ds is 21 months. He is bf on demand and he demands it a lot. He typically wakes to feed a few times a night anyway, but last night was... it was just apocalyptically bad. It was weeping and tear-your-hair out bad.

It occured to me that I had had a glass of wine with a friend early evening, and the last time he was this excruiatingly bad was when we were staying at friends and I'd had a couple of beers.

Coincidence?

I'm afraid I'm a bit casual about what I eat and drink. He's a big boy now and it's not like I go on weekly benders. I watch my caffine and his salt and that's about it ( though obviously he doesn't have sweeties or non-food crap). He's usually fine.

Could me having an occasional alcoholic drink really be causing him to be awake and unsettled and feed all night to the point of vomiting and then start again?

Is he really campaigning to take away the only tiny treat I have left ?

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MaMight · 03/02/2010 13:32

Bump?

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MoChan · 03/02/2010 13:38

Hmmmmmmm. I honestly am not sure. I occasionally drank when breastfeeding (DD recently gave up at 28months) and I don't think it had any effect. I would be surprised if it could have such a dramatic effect, but I am no expert/scientist.

Maybe you should make a proactive attempt to cut down night feeds so that it wouldn't matter...?

Sorry for being completely useless.

Booyhoo · 03/02/2010 15:10

i have bfed ds2 the day after having a drink and i noticed that on those occasions he was quite pukey. i put it down to the alcohol so i dont feed him the day afteri have had a drink. i just express enough to last for the whole night and day after.

MaMight · 03/02/2010 16:57

I suppose it could just be coincidence.

He is really exasperating at the moment.

It seems to be taking longer and longer to feed him to sleep.

I used to be able to feed him and leave him mostly asleep and he'd drop the last bit off by himself. These days he has to be completely asleep and I have to lie desparately still and not risk leaving until he's sleeping really deeply.

We seem to be regressing.

Sigh.

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Booyhoo · 03/02/2010 17:01

could be just his age and a phase of development he is going through. i dont know enough about stages to say really. perhaps someone more knowledgeable (tiktok?) might shed more light on it.

MrsSantosloves2010 · 03/02/2010 17:14

No expert, just personal experience to go on, but I would be very surprised. AFAIK the amount of alcohol in breastmilk is quite small anyway - minimal from the amount you are drinking. It leaves your milk as quickly as it leaves your bloodstream so 1 unit will be gone in one hour. I assume he's having solids and other drinks too? It sounds like it could be something entirely different but I'm not sure what (teething, brewing a bug, developmental milestone, spicy food eaten with drink?). I have been able to drink (fairly sensibly) throughout several years of bf. Only when they were really tiny (under 4 months) did I actually really restrict my intake. I do find that if I have had a drink I am less tolerant when my DD asks for a night feed

Hope Tiktok comes along soon

tiktok · 03/02/2010 17:29

No evidence whatsoever that alcohol in these small quantities can cause this sort of behaviour in a bf baby - my money is on co-incidence!

When alcohol is ingested in massive amounts the effect on bf babies is sedation, not distress.

MaMight · 03/02/2010 17:32

Interesting. So you're saying I should get blotto and he might actually sleep for more than a 2 hour stretch?

I'll get right on it!

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tiktok · 03/02/2010 17:35

Er, no

MaMight · 03/02/2010 17:42

Damn.

Back to the no cry sleep solution then .

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