Breast milk alcohol testers
Common Questions and Answers about Breast milk alcohol testers
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You certainly can drink and breastfeed as long as its a reasonable amount you are drinking (roughly one drink per hour). Firstly pump and dump is a waste of milk no matter how much you pump the.alcohol in your milk is Dependant on the alcohol in your blood and how quickly your body metabolizes it. Test strips are also a waste of money... Also just because you have a drink or two over the course of about an hour doesn't mean that your breast milk has the same alcohol content as your drinks.
Pump and dump is not gonna help and the teat strips are a waste of money. Alcohol metabolizes through your breast milk at the same rate that it metabolizes in your blood. Meaning if you have one drink, regardless of how much you pump and dump it'll still take about an hour for your body to fully metabolize the alcohol. With that being said the concentration of alcohol in your breast milk also reflects that of your blood.
There's a lot of controversy on this but I was told once you're sober the alcohol is out of your system and out of your milk so pumping and dumping is pointless. I've also heard that the amount of alcohol in your milk isn't enough to effect your baby when you do drink because it does into your body and say your blood alcohol content is .08 which is the legal limit then the amount in your milk would only be a very small percentage of that.
Buy the testing strips. They test for alcohol in your breast milk.
Yes it does, you're getting rid of the milk that is contaminated with alcohol. Alcohol doesn't stay in your system that long, so if you dump a couple feedings worth it is out of the system and not in the new milk.
Also, Im pretty sure that pump and dump isnt really make sense unless your drunk or under influence,when you do it, once alcohol leaves your system, it also leaves breast milk. So you only dump when the alcohol is likely in your system still, at a rate of 1 drink per hour. If you have 3 drinks in an hour, wait three to four hours to feed baby, or to pump and save milk.
You always want to make sure you have enough nutrients.
Maybe if you pump after u drink it I got confused sorry I've seen woman had wine pump the milk out then breast feed later
I am lead to believe pumpin and dumping doesn't work. The alcohol stays in your milk while its in your system. When you sober up, your milk should be fine. But i would definitely recommend alcohol test strips to be safe.
I just took a class on breast feeding instructed by a international liscenced board lactation consultant. She said that the concern is not how much alcohol is in your breast milk...the concern is how capable or intoxicated you are. If you drink a beer or get a little buzzed its still okay to feed your baby. If you get drunk or wasted its not okay to hold and feed your baby because its not safe. She also said that the test strips are a waste of money.
Too much alcohol.
the nurse i talked to (and she checked their nursing book to make sure) said that its so little alcohol that gets threw the breast milk u just have to wait a few hours. and if u have one drink (beer or wine only) u can start nursing right away. it did say if u do want to have a few drinks that the best time is to wait till night after u feed your baby n his put to bed.
I have never used the strips but have. Also read that as soon as you no longer tipsy its fine.
If you're super worried they also sell test strips to test your milk to make sure there's no alcohol in it.
It takes the same amount of time for the alcohol to exist yor system as it does your breast milk!
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