Linda Pohl posted regarding alcohol in breastmilk in February 1999.  I
saved her comments, because I found them so logical and understandable.
From them I have deduced the following:

Blood alcohol levels and breast milk alcohol levels are the same.

Legally drunk in many states is 0.1% blood alcohol.  That is one tenth
of one percent.

Take one ounce of breast milk, divide it into 100 parts.  Divide one of
those parts into 10 more parts. One of those last ten parts would be a
drop of alcohol.  Not a very significant amount!

This is the concentration in a legally drunk woman.  How much less there
would be in the milk of a mother who had one glass of wine!

Barb Berges BS, RN, IBCLC
Rochester, New York

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