HI Kathy -

I think this is pretty standard advice (not to drink any alcohol at all
while nursing), from non-BF professionals at least. Probably based on the
general premise of "better safe than sorry", rather than on research data.
It's so much easier (not to mention "safer" - you know those new mothers,
all just chomping at the bit to indulge daily in wild alcoholic excesses!)
to just recommend that they abstain from all ETOH than to actually work
through all those pesky details of how much is "safe", or to actually look
up the available research-based info. Just another way of letting women know
that breastfeeding is dangerous, troublesome, "not normal", and incompatible
with regular daily living. Come to think of it, just being a woman is all
those things, according to traditional medicine.

Personally, I refused to come home from the hospital after my twins were
born until there was a gallon jug of wine waiting for me at my bedside!
(Don't bother flaming me, anyone - I *don't* recommend this to clients, just
stating a fact from my own foolish life...)

Cathy Bargar, RN< IBCLC
Ithaca, NY

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