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. *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html