Before we tar and feather (virtually!) the researcher who did the study
where alcohol was added to breastmilk given to the mothers' babies in a
bottle, we need to READ the entire study.

I happen to know this researcher.  She is EXTREMELY sensitive to the
process of lactation and would not, in my opinion, ever place a mother or
baby at risk--or her breastfeeding relationship.  Obviously, the mothers
signed informed consent documents thoroughly outlining what would be done
and the effects, positive and negative, of the proposed treatment.

Until you have read the study, do not assume that the alcohol was in such a
quantity as to make the child drunk.  If this study used a protocol similar
to a previous study done by the same resesarchers, it was a SMALL amount of
alcohol.

I suspect (without having seen the study yet myself) that bottles were used
in order to control for the amount of milk given to the babies with the
alcohol in it.

PS This researcher has both baby slings and rocking chairs in her
laboratory for the breastfeeding mothers with whom she works.

Let's all go out and read that study and THEN discuss it--both the findings
and the methodology...

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