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Re: alcohol
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Jean Ridler <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:38:22 +0200
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As I understand it, alcohol passes freely into and out of breastmilk. (? by 
osmosis) - it's not stored in the breastmilk until used up.    Blood alcohol 
levels and breastmilk alcohol levels are equal.  Alcohol is diluted by the 
baby's own body water (Lawton, Jason)

The following I found in some notes - think it came from someone on 
Lactnet??
        For a woman to be legally intoxicated:  Take 30 ml breastmilk. 
Divide it into 100 parts = 0.3mls.  Divide one of those parts by 10 = 0.03ml 
alcohol in 33 ml breastmilk.  How much less would there be for a mother who 
drank only one glass of wine?

Sober mother = sober milk.

Jean Ridler  RN  RM  IBCLC
South Africa   [log in to unmask] 

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