Whether or not it is permissible to drive after ingesting alcohol  
varies with where you live.  Where I live it is not permissible unless  
you want to spend three non-negotiable weeks in jail and pay a huge  
fine, on a sliding scale based on earnings.  The legal limit for  
alcohol content is such that if you eat yeast bread that wasn't in the  
oven long enough you could risk crossing it.  Before the limit was  
lowered you could have a glass of low-alcohol beer and drive an hour  
later.  Now you just can't drink, period.  You get used to it, and you  
have a designated driver, or learn to take the bus or take a cab if  
you can't imagine a night on the town without alcohol.

Alcohol and breastfeeding is a topic about which we do not have  
conclusive evidence on which to base sweeping recommendations.  I have  
always maintained that it is misleading to focus on the minimal  
alcohol content in milk, rather than on the issue of safety for  
children when being cared for by adults who are not sober enough to  
drive a car.  I would be concerned about any child whose mother wanted  
to know it was all right to have two units of alcohol every single  
day, because where I live that is very far from the norm for parents  
of young children.

Rachel Myr
Kristiansand, Norway

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