----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nikki Lee" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 3:01 PM
Subject: [LACTNET] alcohol


> Dear Friends:
>
>
> While common sense might indicate one thing, research indicates another.
> There is no evidence behind pumping and dumping for alcohol ingestion. 
> Alcohol
> moves out of the milk at the same rate as it moves out of blood.

**Hello Nikki,

It moves out, but if the mother has full breasts and she has to wait another 
three or six hours before her milk is 'clean' (like her blood, after 
drinking 1 or 2 glasses), it is definitely worthwile for her to pump en dump 
(the alcoholic milk), in order to prevent her from becoming engorged by not 
feeding three or six hours. That can be sustained with evidence, because we 
know when the alcohol has moved out of blood, so we know it for milk as 
well. So pumping and dumping is, in that case, not meant to protect the baby 
from ingesting alcohol, but to protect the mother from engorgement and 
milkstasis or a sterile mastitis/inflammation resulting from too much 
intraductal pressure.

Warmly,

Marianne Vanderveen, Netherlands

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