Oh Wise, but sometimes puritan ones ...

From Jack Newman's The Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers, p 261.

"In many jurisdictions, youj are considered too drunk to drive if you have 0.08 percent alcohol in your blood.  In some others, the legal limit may be as high as 0.1 percent or as lowa as 0.05.  This is a blood level of alcohol that can cloud your judgement when you have to operate a vehicle, agreed.  But if the mother has 0.08 percent alcohol in her blood, her milk will have 0.08 percent alchol.  Now this is a completely different situation.  Wine is 10 to 12 percent alcohol, beer 3 to 5 percent, and hard liquor approximately 40 percent, occasionally more.  So-called dealcoholized beer actually has 0.6 percent alcohol, or more than seven times more than the mother's milk will contain if she has a blood level of 0.08 percent.  You can drink a liquid that is 0.08 percent alcohol, day and night, and it won't affect you.  So how is this likely to harm the baby?"

Please, please, please, read the book (no I have no financial interest).  Jack does a beautiful job of putting relative risk into perspective and makes it possible for "non-saints" to breastfeed their babies and small children.  He is a voice of common-sense who can really help us make breastfeeding the norm.

Sherene
climbing down off my soapbox now

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