According to Thomas Hale alcohol level in milk in the breast is a quite exact match to that in her blood. It wil rise and decrease with the blood alcohol promilage. In pumped milk alcohol will sit and stay the same.
Hale T: Medications and Mothers' MIlk, ed 2010(14), p382

warmly,

Gonneke, IBCLC in PP, LC lecturer in southern Netherlands

 
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>Subject: alcohol levels in pumped milk
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>With parties ahead of us this season of the year, I am looking for
>references concerning the alcohol in milk that has peen pumped soon after a
>mother has been drinking.
>Specifically:
>  - the percentage of alcohol in the pumped milk
>  - how long it stays in the pumped milk
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>Thank you!
>norma, cross posting
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>Norma Ritter, IBCLC, RLC
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