Alcohol???

[Sweetie]

Does anyone know if a drink will metabolize out of breast milk?

Every Friday night we go with friends out to the pub for kareoke. I leave at nine and LO is home with a sitter until midnight or one. Though she is generally bf she will get a bottle at 11 and then is off to bed and doesn't wake until 5:30 am. I'm wondering if I was to have a lone drink would it be gone by the time I was to feed her at 5am? A lot of the time I come home from the pub to put her to bed and then go back out but I was just wondering...

 

[Rachel]

If you have one or two drinks at the beginning of your night out then it will be gone by 5.30am.

I read before it takes 1 hour for your body to get rid of one unit of alcohol. Once the alcohol is out of you blood then it is out of your milk aswell

 

[Sweetie]

Nice, thanks...

 

[marley2580]

They don't get that much alcohol through the milk anyway, so if you were to have one or two then feed, they would hardly get any.

 

[Sweetie]

Well I went out and OH watched her. I didn't end up having anything to drink, maybe next time though. I'm so paranoid about it all but I really miss my wine, used to have a glass with dinner 3-4 times a week.

 

[Carolyn]

since i've had my baby i have a drink and bf, shoot me down!

it hasn't affected her in the way she acts/feeds/sleeps i noticed no change what so ever.

my hv said a marginal amount of alcohol passes through to breast milk...i did wonder how much that would be though!

i had the occassional drink whilst pregnant also

*sits back and awaits back lash...*

 

[Samantha675]

Naw, Carolyn, I am the same way. I had the odd glass of wine during my pregnancy, my MW said a glass every now and then was fine. I am the same with BFing, I have the odd glass and to be honest, I don't even usually finish it. Last week the DH and I went to dinner I had 3/4 a glass of wine and 1/2 a glass of champagne and it was the most I had drank in a year.

 

[Sweetie]

Hmmm... sitting back thinking to myself that a glass of wine with dinner would be nice. May try that tonight

 

[claire1983]

You should be fine - more than 2 I would say you may need to pump a bit off first but I dont think the amount you are talking about would be a prob

 

[sam's mum]

According to my doctor, if you're sober enough to drive, you're sober enough to breastfeed...so even if you did have a glass of wine and fed her a couple of hours later you'd be fine - definitely by 5.30am. I've had the odd glass of wine or Guinness since Sam was born and he's fine x

 

[sam's mum]

You should be fine - more than 2 I would say you may need to pump a bit off first but I dont think the amount you are talking about would be a prob

Expressing milk off doesn't actually speed up the elimination of alcohol from the milk. As long as you don't get drunk you'll be fine! x