Breast milk and alcohol
Common Questions and Answers about Breast milk and alcohol
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So of you have say 2 drinks in an hour, your blood alcohol and your breast milk will have 0.08% alcohol. This amount is almost the same that is found in normal juice (yes there is naturally very very trace amounts in all juice). As long as you aren't drinking heavily and nursing at the same time, you are fine to have a drink every now and then without worrying about harming your baby.
I was told not to pump and dump, its better to wait it out because the alcohol content in breast milk will be the same as in your blood, as youre blood alcohol levels decrease so will the amount in the breast milk and pumping and dumping will just be a waste. My dr told me that its better to just wait it out and to pump a little every now and then and use these test strips from walmart.
Yea u right its not worth the risk thats y I was tryna find out. But I asked the doctor about alcohol & she said pump enough 2 last and after the liquor wear off pump twice and trash that then its safe 2 feed. Thanx 4 ur advice, I really appreciate it!
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.
So my boyfriends roommate told me that if you drink one beer a day it will help with the production of breast milk..he has a son and said thats what the nurse told his chids mother while breastfeeding...dont really know if i should believe it and would like some insight. i am currently trying to breastfeed my 1 week old daughter but im having a little bit of difficulty beacsue she was 4 weeks preterm.
It takes the same amount of time for the alcohol to exist yor system as it does your breast milk!
Hopefully you have a good milk supply but when you drink you have to "pump and dump" to get the breastmilk with alcohol out of your system...
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.
Caffeine is fine just try to keep it more for in the morning as it does pass to baby and will affect lo longer and alcohol does not increase production it makes for a easier let down and will peak in breastmilk 30-90 minutes after uve had the drink pumping and dumping will not work out the alcohol faster just helps if u get engorged and need relief
You should talk to your doctor about guidelines to follow if you drink while breastfeeding, alcohol can be transmitted through breast milk although I am not sure how long it stays in the system for. Usually one would do what is called 'pump and dump' where you express milk and just dump it so that baby doesn't ingest it but I'm not sure how long you would need to do that for until you can feed again.
I could be wrong....but if I remember correctly I read somewhere that the thc could be transferred through the breast milk and that you shouldn't smoke weed while breast feeding!!!! I was curious about it cause I wanted to smoke with my bf after baby got here...I'm going to breast feed as we'll but since I read that I will just wait til I'm done breast feeding.
You always want to make sure you have enough nutrients.
Once the alcohol is out of your blood stream its out of your breast milk... so the only reason to pump and dump is for comfort(if your over full) other than that its a waste to dump, so dont feel like you have to pump every ounce out as its not gonna make the alcohol leave any faster and missing one or two feeding really shouldnt have too much affect on your milk supply... if you really want to drink i would try offering a bottle before that night...
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