![]() ![]() There is no research that guarantees the safety of consuming moderate amounts alcohol while nursing and equally none that proves harm.It is not safe to bedshare if you have alcohol in your system.Newborns under 3 months have less developed livers for processing alcohol. ![]() Premature or low birth weight babies may have more difficulty processing even tiny amounts of alcohol.If you do not wish to give the baby the milk you can use it in the bath, to help sooth nappy rash or even have it made into jewellery or a glass ornament! Ok, I’d like to have a drink and not wait for it to leave my system, what else do I need to know? That said if you are not feeding your baby during the time that there is alcohol in your breast milk you may need to pump to maintain supply. No, pumping and dumping the milk will not eliminate the alcohol in your breast milk quicker as only time can do this. Starting your drink while feeding the baby makes the wait for the next feed shorter for baby.ĭoes pumping and dumping make a difference? a small glass of wine (125ml, 12.5% volume).Some examples of a standard drink in Ireland are: So, it will take about 75 minutes for an Irish ‘standard drink’ to leave your system. In the UK a standard drink, also called a unit of alcohol, has about 8 grams of pure alcohol. A ‘standard drink’ and a unit of alcohol are not the same things in Ireland! In Ireland a standard drink has about 10 grams of pure alcohol. Alcohol leaves you system at approximately one unit per hour. Alcohol levels are usually highest in breast milk 30-60 minutes after an alcoholic drink is consumed or 60 to 90 minutes when drunk with food. I’m not comfortable with any alcohol in my breastmilk, how long do I have to wait to feed? So really, the amounts of alcohol ingested by a nursing infant are very small. To put a bit more context on it, someone would be visibly drunk with a blood alcohol level of 0.1%. If she did that, chances are she’d be passed out (or in a coma) so couldn’t feed the baby anyway. A 140lb/10st woman would need to drink about 13 pints in 5 hours to reach a blood alcohol level high enough for her milk to no longer be considered alcohol free under EU legislation. Irish Law (in line with EU legislation) considers alcohol free products as having no more than 0.5% ABV. Yes it does, the level of alcohol in your breastmilk is about same, or slightly less, as in your blood, it enters and leaves at a similar pace. ![]()
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