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.
:-)

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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

*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!

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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

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

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reply.)

"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

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)
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OSPAM (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.)

True, but your original statement was:

If it was last night, and this is now today, you can certainly bf freely
today, without the slightest concern. The alcohol is long out of both your
blood AND your milk.

The quantity would be too low to cause harm; however, it is not necessarily
zero.

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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

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