Breastfeeding after alcohol?

[DaphneLan]

I overindulged a bit last night at new years and ended up having 1 bottle of Prosecco and 2 glasses of white wine (over the space of about 4 hours, with food and I stopped just after midnight). It’s now nearly 7pm the following day and I’m wondering if it’s safe to breastfeed my 3 week old daughter or will there still be too much alcohol in my milk? I can’t find a straight answer anywhere and I’d rather not have to throw away perfectly good milk again :(

You would have been safe all along OP.

Its fine. Breastfeed away.

Just be cautious of cosleeping maybe.

Breastfeeding is absolutely fine. The percentage that gets into your milk is absolutely miniscule.

This - you needn't wait all day.

This.

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You can feed straight away after alcohol.

It’s totally fine. It’s in the milk at the same rate it’s in your blood and it leaves the milk at the same rate too - your breasts aren’t a reservoir for milk, they’re constantly making it and the alcohol leaves it the same way it leaves your blood. It’s also very different to drinking when pregnant when it goes straight through the placenta. The danger comes from co-sleeping, you mustn’t do that, but feeding is fine.

I read something that said only 2-5% gets in breast milk, and in order to have an even mild sedatation effect on baby your blood level must me 300, which is almost 4x the 80 drink/drive limit in England. I wouldn't have fed straight after that much but next morning would be easily fine. I'm allowing myself 1 drink and not stopping feeding - I was advised in an antenatal class its actually best to drink while feeding. It takes time to get into the milk, so if you drink while feeding then it won't get in in time to affect that feed, and if baby doesn't feed for another 3 hours, your one drink will have left your system and therefore your milk before you feed again.

Thanks for the answers guys, she’s now having some guilt free dinner x