While shopping online yesterday I accidentally came across the Breastmilk 
Alcohol Detection Kit, available at a prominent online website, which tests for 
the presence of alcohol in breastmilk which has been expressed onto a special 
breastpad.  Is this a bigger problem than we imagine?  Are there truly that 
many women out there drinking and worrying about how much alcohol their 
nursing baby is getting that we would need a product to help ease their 
minds?  I suppose the privacy of the product would appeal to some, as there 
is no perceived judgment from a breastpad in a box like there conceivably 
would be from a human being asked the question.  The site also includes 
customer reviews, which, of course, can be faked by the manufacturer; one 
of them is from a woman who "brings them to baby showers and is the hit of 
the party!"  Hurray!  Sorry, a little judgment showed through there.  But 
seriously, you have to wonder about this type of product's reliability.  How are 
home drug-screen kits viewed by the justice system in our country?  This is 
basically the same thing.  I think anyone in lactation support in the U.S. 
should know that this product is out there because it's apparently available 
throught the country.  (It wasn't readily apparent whether it's available 
internationally).  

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