Up until a few years ago (three, I think) it was standard advice in my training experience NOT to drink alcohol while bf - it never made sense to me - there seemed to be no evidence that a little beer or wine could possibly do any harm to a bf baby - and it seemed silly to me that people spent SO much time and effort researching that idea. On the one hand, I thought, for 25 or whatever years, lactation consultants had been telling mothers to have a nice glass of wine or dark beer to "relax" before bf - then all of a sudden, the "no alcohol" policy. I interpreted it as yet another swing in the pendulum of bf research - so we go again from one extreme to the other! (My gut feeling is that, hopefully, most mothers will take some of our advice with a grain of salt.) That's my take! Elaine Mazgelis, RD, IBCLC ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html