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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