In a message dated 9/22/2004 9:15:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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However, a  friend who has adopted two children with Fetal Alchohol Syndrome
insists  that drinking while breastfeeding is just as dangerous to the
infant's  brain. What is the current belief about alcohol while nursing/human
milk  feeding/breastfeeding/lactating?



Dear Friends:
    Ruth Little et al. did a study that found a  1-point difference in a
motor skills test at age 1 year when breastfeeding  mothers drank 1 drink every
day....however, she was unable to replicate this  finding when she studied
babies up to age 18 months. (Pediatrics May 2002;  109(5))
    The discussion says, "We were unable to replicate  the earlier deficit in
motor skills associated with lactation alcohol use. One  reason may be that
the dose of alcohol reaching the lactating (sic!) infant is  small, and tests
of infants and toddlers have limited ability to pick up on  small defects."
    The AAP puts ethanol in Table 6, the one titled  'maternal medication
usually compatible with breastfeeding.'
    Ruth Lawrence  has said a practitioner should  neither prescribe nor
proscribe alcohol during lactation.
    warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
Support the WHO Code and the Mother-Friendly Childbirth  Initiative

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