If milk is manufactured "from" blood and alcohol is metabolized from 
the blood via the liver, would milk that has been made (and stored 
within the body) from within blood containing a certain alcohol 
level, lose that alcohol level with time?  That is, how would this 
happen as the milk would not presumably return to the liver for 
detoxification?  So wouldn't it be possible for a mother whose blood 
alcohol level is now minimal to still be feeding her child residual 
higher-alcohol-level-tainted milk?

I understand the quantities involved here are miniscule, possibly trivial.
And possibly also highly variable as I understand mothers' "storage 
capacity" may vary considerably.

I certainly agree about the risk of stigmatizing a socially 
ubiquitous practice exclusively in the context of breastfeeding. 
Talk about damning by association!  Personally, I'd rather see 
society get a little more realistic in assessing the damage of 
alcohol to our entire social fabric, but that's a rather large kettle 
of fish to fry.  It's quite the tricky situation, isn't it?  But 
usually there are broader family and parenting issues involved 
anyway, aren't there, when mom has the urge to binge?  Why leave 
breastfeeding holding the wrap for a way, way bigger problem?  (OK, 
because the child disproportionately assumes the damage...it's hard!).
-- 
	-Sara in West L.A., USA.

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