Alcohol vs breastfeeding

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What’s your view on having alcoholic drinks and breastfeeding ? I just got judged by my friend for having a cider. I expressed before to give it to my baby after I had a drink and I’m also mixed feeding so can give her formula before alcohol will leave my blood.
Obviously I want best for my baby but I don’t want her to dominate my life, I’ve been waiting for 9 months and I don’t think a bottle of bullmers will make any harm ! ?

As long as you arent too drunk to hold your baby then a couple of drinks will do no harm. Dont know if it can affect milk supply if you have a lot

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

It's one of those things unfortunately that will get a lot of judgement.
Basically, if you're pregnant then you abstain, and if you're breastfeeding then you abstain. That's the official medical guidance in the UK.

Some people will think you're an alcoholic if you can't abstain. Others will take a more relaxed approach.

Even if you drink around a toddler people will still judge you!

One drink or probably even two is fine.

www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/breastfeeding-mums-rejoice-you-can-drink-alcohol-christmas-or-no/amp/

Might be behind a paywall

And this is a good one too

expectingscience.com/2017/07/31/drinking-while-nursing-7-things-to-know/

Loads of people will judge because they don’t know that’s fine. If you drink enough alcohol to die, I’m guessing not your plan then your bm will have about the same amount of alcohol as orange juice. As long as you can hold the baby and are not cosleeping drunk then it’s fine. If you do cosleep then you may need to drink during the day rather than the evening.

Completely fine to technically drink any amount as you would have to already have died from alcohol poisoning before your milk reached 0.5% alcohol (which is the same as apple juice which people frequently give to toddlers anyway).

Would I advise getting drunk if you were looking after and breastfeeding your baby? No, but the same would apply if you were formula feeding.

I really hate this kind of misinformation as I feel like it puts some women off breastfeeding. It's the same with people pedalling the myth that you can't take any decent painkillers when breastfeeding. It's just rubbish and puts up barriers of misinformation.

Definitely no drinking and bed sharing though.

But so far everyone ok here is saying it's fine :)

It's fine to drink while breastfeeding, as long as you are sober enough to look after baby. This is one of my real bugbears as people think it's not OK so give up breastfeeding so they can drink, contributing to low bf rates. It's fine to drink in moderation and breastfeed.

Its fine to drink and feed, just no 'dropping the baby' level of drunkenness and definitely no bed sharing when drinking!

Consider your blood alcohol level. I've been told by a midwife that your breast milk will get to a similar level. To fail a drink drive test the level is mostly 0.05% across Europe. A fatal blood alcohol can be 0.4%.

Malt vinegar is 0.2%, fresh orange juice or fresh apple juice is 0.5% and none are considered alcoholic drinks.

Just don't go crazy!

@GNCQ

It's one of those things unfortunately that will get a lot of judgement. Basically, if you're pregnant then you abstain, and if you're breastfeeding then you abstain. That's the official medical guidance in the UK.

Some people will think you're an alcoholic if you can't abstain. Others will take a more relaxed approach.

Even if you drink around a toddler people will still judge you!

I think I know some quite judgy people but this hasn't been my experience at all. Drinking in pregnancy is considered at absolute no no (by the people around me certainly), but I really don't think people judge drinking during breastfeeding in the same way. The majority of my friends have fed to 1 year +, many of them exclusively breastfeeding up to weaning at 6m, and are quite evangelical about it but the majority have also drunk whilst breastfeeding. I've never experienced any comments nor really any assumptions I'd be having a soft drink, unlike during pregnancy.

I’m currently sat here with a glass of Pinot in hand, hooked up to my pump 😂 I’m exclusively pumping and happy to feed baby my milk if I’ve had a drink. (We’re talking 1 glass of wine)

I never co sleep if I’ve had alcohol though.

It's perfectly ok,how else do you get through it.😂
Obviously don't get paraletic,or co sleep but a glass of wine or cider is perfectly acceptable.