"If alcohol is used, advise the lactating woman to limit her intake to no more than 0.5 g of alcohol per kg of maternal body weight per day. Intake over this level may impair the milk ejection reflex." I have never heard this before - the usual fears about alcohol are that it gets into the milk, and affects the baby. Are there any other refs to support this? And how long before it *stops* impairing the MER? In the UK, the anecdotal stuff about MER and alcohol is that it actually helps it - the idea being that alcohol 'relaxes' the mother enough to let down. I have no idea if that's true, but it's what midwives often tell mothers (not that that proves anything - often, the reverse!). Heather Welford Neil NCT bfc, Newcastle upon Tyne UK