My understanding is that this has been shown NOT to be a galactagogue and
in fact can sometimes decrease baby's number of nursings or increase the
inter-feed interval (not exactly sure, I think Julie Menella's research).
So I would mention that "we" used to think beer and also just increasing
water intake to very high volumes would help milk supplies, but that
there's been good research to show us these interventions can have the
opposite effect. I usually just mention or send around an email with the
relevant research cited. Then of course give them the interventions that
really do help: skin to skin, kangaroo care, hospital grade pump, 8-10x per
24 hr, hands on pumping. You could circulate this under "new research" for
world bf week or something.
Laurie Wheeler RN MN IBCLC
Mississippi USA

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