Someone asked me privately to dig up answers to the following question:

>do you know if there's any information about how heavy smoking and
>coffee drinking while nursing affects the baby?

I thought LactNetters might like to see what I came up with.  I've included
references on alcohol, even though the requester didn't ask about it.  I
haven't read any of these myself.  Some I didn't write the authors down, sorry.

Fackelmann, Kathy  1991  Nursing babes savor garlic, shun spirits.  Science
News 140:230.

Transfer of alcohol to human milk.  Nutrition Today 26:4-5.  1991

The transfer of alcohol to human milk: Effects on flavor and the infant's
behavior.  1991  New England Journal of Medicine 325:981-985.

Li, S. and R.R. Hacker  1995  The effect of caffeine on mammary gland
development and milk yield in primiparous sows.  Journal of Animal Science
73:534-540.

Brown, D.L., and D.M. Harris  1988  Effects of caffeine and 3-isobutyl
1-methyl xanthine on caprine milk secretion.  Journal of Dairy Science
71:513-517. (Ah, cows are bovine, sheep are ovine, and goats are caprine, as
in Capricorn!)

Sheffield, Lewis  1991  Caffeine administered during pregnancy augments
subsequent lactation in mice.  Journal of Animal Science 69:1128-1132.

Barr, Helen et al.  1990  Prenatal exposure to alcohol, caffeine, tobacco,
and aspirin: Effects on fine and gross motor performance in 4-year-old
children.  Developmental Psychology 26:339-348.

Orlebeke, J.F. et al.  1995  Breastfeeding and neurological status.  Lancet
345:393.  (this came up under bf and smoking, I think)

Fetal harm greater from cigarettes than cocaine.  American Journal of
Nursing  1995, Vol. 95, p. 56. (WOW)

Israeloff, Roberta  1993  How secondhand smoke hurts kids.  Parents 68 (Aug.
1993), p. 54-6+.

Secondhand smoke: Is it a hazard?  Consumer Reports 60 (Jan 1995), p. 27-33.

Springer, Ilene  1992  A drink before nursing?  American Health 11:129.

Effect of alcohol in breast milk.  1992 American Family Physician 45:891-892.


Hope this helps.

Katherine A. Dettwyler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Texas A&M University
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