I agree with Karleen. A regular wine bottle contains 750 ml at 6-12%  
alcohol. The mother would consume 18 ounces in 5 days, that is less  
than 4 ounces per day. If the bottle is "larger than the regular  
size", it could be the 1.5 liter bottle and the mother would drink  
about 7 ounces (2 small glasses). Even at that, much of the alcohol  
would have turned to vinegar way before day 5. It would not taste that  
good either.

It might be a good idea to try to find out why the mother needs to  
drink alcohol every night. She may be traumatized to be separated from  
her baby all day and needs to wind down after a hectic day at work.

Nicole Bernshaw

> Date:    Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:06:45 +1000
> From:    Karleen Gribble <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Wine and breastfeeding a 6 month old.
>
> Gosh, if she's having wine every night and has consumed 3/4 of a  
> bottle over
> 5 days she's not having much every night! I can't see a problem.
> Karleen Gribble
> Australia
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>>
>> her daughter in law is having wine after work each evening. She  
>> says the
>> bottle which is "larger than a regular size bottle of wine" is over  
>> the
>> course of 5 days down about 3/4.? She is concerned about the  
>> breastmilk
>> passing the alcohol to the baby and causing the baby harm.
>> My concerns was how much did Mom consume each time she drank. I  
>> also told
>> her that sometime ago when I was breastfeeding people thought a  
>> glass of
>> wine or beer in evening would help baby "sleep better" and might  
>> even help
>> Mom increase her supply by "relaxing her".? Grandma is concerned  
>> that she
>> may cause this baby to be "addicted".? I told her that if addiction  
>> and
>> alcoholism run in family it's more genetic.? She approached her son  
>> who
>> defended his wife and felt that it was not harmful...needless to  
>> say this
>> is a rocky start to someone who moved herself 500 plus miles away  
>> from
>> everyone she knows to be closer to her son and help establish a
>> relationship with his new family.
>> She is heartsick and would like the opinion of my fellow  
>> LactNetters as to
>> how she should approach this.
>> I told her there are many variables to this and she would like some
>> different opinions to help her.
>> So please share your thoughts in email to me [log in to unmask]
>> Leanne Jewell RN-BC, IBCLC, LCCE,FACCE
>> S Florida
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