Wine and breastfeeding.

[LucyB1]

Does anyone have the odd glass while breastfeeding or do you obtain completely?

I drank the odd glass of wine while bf generally straight after a feed so it would have 2hrs to clear my system before feeding g again

I often had a glass of wine in the evening when BFing - usually simultaneously!

I often had a glass of wine in the evening when BFing - usually simultaneously!

Read this:

biologybrain-simonsays.blogspot.co.uk/2008/12/alcohol-content-of-breast-milk.html?m=1

I have a glass 2-3 times a week. Sometimes a second. On special occasions I'll have a third, but never quickly and always with food.

I think it's fine. I think the NHS have such strict advice because they can't say it's safe without oodles and oodles of research and they can't test tolerance levels on small babies (and rightly so). I think the safe levels are set as the normal safe levels, as that's part of wider NHS guidance.

I should add, I didn't feel like drinking anything for at least the first 5 weeks and intake has increased with the amount of sleep DD has let us have over the past 6 months.

I've barely had any alcohol over the past 2 years (either pregnant and couldn't face it, or bf and couldn't be arsed) but on the odd occasion that I have been to a wedding or family birthday meal and I've had a glass of something lovely forced on me I've enjoyed it. And as far as I can tell the baby has been totally fine.

Look at kellymom for info but yes I drank when I was bfeeding, five kids, ten years of bfeeding. I would have had to be a saint to abstain for that long... I am no saint.

My drink of choice is rum and coke though rather than wine!

Yes I did (and when pregnant) - I really believe that the occasional small glass of wine a few times a week is not going to harm you or your baby.

I have read similar to Anything - it was a link over on the breastfeeding board. Basically you would have to be pretty darn drunk for anything to harm baby, and the taste would get vile for them before that.
1 or 2 glasses is OK.
More, wait overnight-12 hr before feeding but you don't have to waste the milk, the alcohol content wanes out of it naturally.

Double check on the breast and bottle feeding board - they have some real experts.

DS was 8 days old here. NYE, silly hat, champagne and I think I was asleep by 12.03!!

ProfessionalKiller ROCKING that party hat.

Lol professional killer I know you! Cough Friday group toddlers that you used to go to!

Or if not you have a long lost twin!

I have a couple of glasses of wine 1-2 a week on average.

my NCT breatfeeding lady who is a lactation consultant told us that you could have 1-2 units a day (if you were that way inclined!) and breastfeed and it wouldn't cause a problem...

The amount that gets into your milk is absolutely minute.
As long as you're not too drunk to look after the baby you're fine. No need to pump either.
Co-sleeping isn't safe with drinking, something to bear in mind.

Yes. It works the same way as blood alcohol, so after a unit or so, your milk is about as alcoholic as orange juice. Unless you're really caning it, the biggest risk is that you're tipsy and drop your baby.

I pretty much drank what I wanted when BFing, that sounds far worse than it actually was, after 9 months of abstinence half a glass of wine got me VERY lightheaded. DS is now 20 months and DH and I still can't finish a bottle between us, a glass and a half is my limit now.

I was thinking about this earlier, I started a thread this morning about what we all what to do post birth and the responses were mainly and unsurprisingly, food and alcohol related!

I was told when I was bf my DD four years ago that you treated feeding and drinking like driving and drinking. So nothing, or enough to keep you under the limit.

Not scientific and rather hazy advice really

My GP, who is very knowledgeable of all things bf told me to stop at exactly the point when you feel yourself becoming light headed. For me that is one glass.

I think the latest advice is to abstain completely during pregnancy, seems like the experts cannot agree on a safe level so are basically protecting themselves, I think.

I miss wine!

On what basis did he give that advice Foodie?

I have the odd glass of wine now and then or a cheeky swig of DP's beer. (and did the same during pregnancy)
I do not fall into the camp of avoiding everyth ing that may have a tiny risk just the things with a proved high risk.

'She' actually, TheScience.

I don't know the basis or evidence, but I do remember asking her (my last baby, 2 years ago) and that was what she said.

She then, slightly random advice though!

Maybe it was her own personal opinion and not guidelines?
must check guidelines