Breastfeeding & alcohol

I just don’t drink tbh. Although I am going to a wedding reception at the beginning of May when baby will be 15 weeks and will possibly have a couple of drinks. If I have a drink I’ll just pump and dump.

Copying from another source…. One of the questions we see often is 'if I have a drink with dinner, how many times should I pump and dump?' And the answer is... zero. Don't bother with the test strips - those things get so many false negatives and false positives, you'd have better accuracy playing pin the tail on the donkey. They'd probably show alcohol in my milk, and I haven't had a drink in 10 years (it gives me terrible migraines). Alcohol is a normal product of human metabolism - where there is sugar, there is alcohol - so it's always hanging around. And it leaves your milk as it leaves your blood, so by the time you've sobered up, so has your milk. If baby is over 3 months (newborn livers are very sensitive), you will be unconscious or dead before your milk contains enough alcohol to cause a problem. After 4 or 5 drinks, your milk contains less alcohol than a glass of orange juice. The concern with drinking and breastfeeding isn't the alcohol in your milk, it's whether you

k, it's whether you can safely carry and care for your baby. If you're sober enough to drive, you are sober enough to nurse. And if you can manage to assemble your pump correctly, you're fine to freeze the milk or have someone else give it to your baby in a bottle.

I’ve heard this from lots of people which makes me cynical that the colicky days were anything to do with the alcohol! After so long trying to conceive and obviously being pregnant im a very cheap date these days and don’t want to have more than one or two anyway but im scared to give it another go now in case i have a bad next day with him and feel terribly selfish! 🙈

I have a rule - if i am legally allowed to drive, i can feed and look after my baby. I don't have more than two drinks in a day.

If you can find the baby, you can feed the baby. Think of it like a shot glass in a swimming pool. You'd have to be absolutely blazing drunk for your baby to get anything harmful. If you're concerned, the general rule of thumb is keeping under the legal driving limit. The bigger concern is falling asleep with your baby in an unsafe position. If you bedshare, don't drink/make sure baby is in their own space. Lots of sources will say to pump and dump and it's just not correct. There's more alcohol % in some fruit juices than what will get to your baby through your breastmilk 😅 Enjoy a drink in the sun!!

I drink but don't tend to go over what I would feel safe driving after. It hardly passes through to breastmilk at all. There's definitely something in prosecco that processes differently in my body though so I completely avoid it, just 1 glass leads to my baby having a bad gut the next day for some reason, my first was the exact same! Tried it multiple times and it's definitely prosecco and not just coincidence.

Ok you’ve made me feel brave haha. I did pump & dump for one glass of wine last week and I felt silly!