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How long for alcohol to leave BM?
Hi everyone and a Happy New Year!
I celebrated last night with a few too many, and I was wondering how long the alcohol will stay in my breastmilk. I gave my DD a bottle last night but put her on the breast this morning. DH wants me to pump and dump for 3 days but I think this is too long. TIA. :-) *~*~*Trish*~*~* Mum to 5 wonderful human beings. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.a3.com.au ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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*Hunee* wrote: Hi everyone and a Happy New Year! I celebrated last night with a few too many, and I was wondering how long the alcohol will stay in my breastmilk. I gave my DD a bottle last night but put her on the breast this morning. DH wants me to pump and dump for 3 days but I think this is too long. Ridiculous There's no need at all to pump and dump, nor to give a bottle. If you are too drunk to drive (here anyhow) your BA level is 0.08% which will be the alcohol level of your breastmilk. For comparison, gripe water with alcohol is 3% alcohol. Alcohol stays in your breast milk as long as it stays in your blood. Breast fed babies whose mothers have consumed alcohol may nurse more frequently but for shorter periods of time. Dawn |
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*Hunee* wrote:
Hi everyone and a Happy New Year! I celebrated last night with a few too many, and I was wondering how long the alcohol will stay in my breastmilk. I gave my DD a bottle last night but put her on the breast this morning. DH wants me to pump and dump for 3 days but I think this is too long. Happy New Year! Do not pump and dump. When they give you those warnings about alcohol, they're talking about people who drink every day and that gets into the baby. Once in a great while is not a big deal, especially since the amount that gets into the milk is very low. I've had a couple of glasses of wine at Halloween and Thanksgiving. Pillbug was never even sleepier than usual; it seemed like there was no effect! -- Anita -- -- SUCCESS FOUR FLIGHTS THURSDAY MORNING ALL AGAINST TWENTY ONE MILE WIND STARTED FROM LEVEL WITH ENGINE POWER ALONE AVERAGE SPEED THROUGH AIR THIRTY ONE MILES LONGEST 57 SECONDS INFORM PRESS HOME CHRISTMAS. |
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"*Hunee*" wrote in message . au...
Hi everyone and a Happy New Year! I celebrated last night with a few too many, and I was wondering how long the alcohol will stay in my breastmilk. I gave my DD a bottle last night but put her on the breast this morning. DH wants me to pump and dump for 3 days but I think this is too long. 3 days, no way! I looked up what damage the odd drink or 3 does to the baby and the only thing it affects (that I could find out about) is motor co-ordination in a young baby and that levels out when they get older. This was about light to moderate drinking though, not getting raddled every day :-) teapot |
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Um, here in NSW we are legally too drunk to drive at 0.05% -- is yours 0.1%?
Varies from state to state. Most are either .1% or .08. I don't know of any states where it's ,05%. (However, the main point of the figure was to explain that, even if mom is solidly plastered, the milk is still going to contain only a fraction of the amount of alcohol that would be found in any actual alcoholic beverage, and so would not do any harm to the baby.) Naomi CAPPA Certified Lactation Educator (either remove spamblock or change address to to e-mail reply.) |
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"Naomi Pardue" skrev i en meddelelse
... Um, here in NSW we are legally too drunk to drive at 0.05% -- is yours 0.1%? Varies from state to state. Most are either .1% or .08. I don't know of any states where it's ,05%. (However, the main point of the figure was to explain that, even if mom is solidly plastered, the milk is still going to contain only a fraction of the amount of alcohol that would be found in any actual alcoholic beverage, and so would not do any harm to the baby.) Used to be 0.08 here in Denmark. I believe it's 0.05% now. Tine, Denmark |
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On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 19:32:13 +0100, "Tine Andersen"
wrote: but then again I might just have mucked up the snipping as usual! Used to be 0.08 here in Denmark. I believe it's 0.05% now. This made me smile, since I remember there being some point made about it applying to cyclists as well as motorists. In my student days, many a cyclist weaved back from the city centre extremely drunk! Megan (ex-Odense University) -- Seoras David Montgomery, 7 May 2003, 17 hours: sunrise to sunset (homebirth) To e-mail use: megan at farr-montgomery dot com |
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In article ,
Naomi Pardue wrote: Um, here in NSW we are legally too drunk to drive at 0.05% -- is yours 0.1%? Varies from state to state. Most are either .1% or .08. I don't know of any states where it's ,05%. (However, the main point of the figure was to explain that, even if mom is solidly plastered, the milk is still going to contain only a fraction of the amount of alcohol that would be found in any actual alcoholic beverage, and so would not do any harm to the baby.) I totally agree moderate amounnts are fine - that glass of wine with dinner or beer with pizza are going to dilute down to almost nothing - even "Non-alcoholic" beer can have up to %2 alcohol. Legally drunk isn't really drunk though, 2 beers can get you to .05%, which may not be safe to drive, but I wouldn't call plastered by several drinks. Here's an interesting BA estimator I just found: http://www.drunkdrivingdefense.com/general/bac.htm This may be more helpful than gauging by the effects - if you are regularly a heavy drinker your tolerance may be high enough that your blood alcohol could be high enough to effect the baby without you being noticably drunk, whereas a normal teetotaler could get pretty sick on that 2 beers. Some breastfeeding book (can't remember which one) mentioned a woman who drank so heavily her milk wouldn't freeze - gack! -Liz |
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Liz S. Reynolds wrote:
Some breastfeeding book (can't remember which one) mentioned a woman who drank so heavily her milk wouldn't freeze - gack! Alcohol is fatal at a blood alcohol level one-tenth that of full-strength beer (0.5). I'm finding this story very, very difficult to believe. Lara |
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