Dear Friends:
        Alcohol goes through milk. Babies may not like the taste, and feed
less for the feed after the mom has the drink (which is what the Menella
study showed....except for the one baby out of the 12 sampled who drank more
than baseline!)  I wish Dr. Menella had studied the sample for longer than
one feed after the mom had the alcohol.
        Another study showed a tiny (1%) difference in motor skills between
babies whose mothers had one drink per day average as opposed to mothers who
had less than one drink per day.  So don't drink every day.
        If she has a drink, she doesn't have to pump and dump. The risks of
breastmilk substitutes are huge and thoroughly documented compared to a
suckling bout with a trace of alcohol in it. If we scare moms, telling them
things like pump and dump for two hours for every drink that they have (which
is not evidence based advice) we drive them to formula.  Because they won't
give up their occaisonal drink. We aren't talking about alcoholics, we are
talking about you and me, who may have a beer or a glass of wine now and
then. For heaven's sake, let's be reasonable. Warmly, Nikki Lee


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