>On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, heather wrote:
>
>>  Cee, I don't think we have evidence for this.....a mother has to be
>>  extremely inebriated for the baby to show symptoms of being drunk.  Per
>>  Hale, this would be having an alcohol/blood level three times higher
>>  than would be illegal to drive (UK)  - and that's very, very drunk.
>
>Really?  I am sure that's what my instructor told us when I took the CLE
>training.  Hmmm.
>
>Cee


You can check what Hale says directly - and while he doesn't actively 
*recommend* mothers use alcohol, his calculations are clear. It's not 
an encouragement, but nor is it any indication that anyone can order 
a  mother who is drunk not to breastfeed . My discomfort was at the 
assumption the evidence was such that we could tell any mother when 
she 'should' and 'shouldn't' breastfeed.

Note I am not saying there is no effect on the baby - just that the 
*symptoms' of the baby's drunkenness (which you alldued to) would not 
be *seen* until the mother was very, very intoxicated.

Heather Welford Neil, UK

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