On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Dan Minette wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 10:38 AM
> Subject: Re: Attn Dean, the meaning of my smiley is...
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> > Yesterday I had my first beer in ages and I felt as if I'd been heavily
> > drinking. No tolerance what soever. I need to work on that. Luckily, me
> > drinking, had no effect on Tom however. So he'll probably become a
> sociable
> > student later in life. :o)
> >
>
> Do you know what fraction of the alcohol gets into the breast milk?
> I'm not criticizing you for having a beer, I'd guess the amount of
> alcohol would be too low to pose much risk to Tom at all. But, I
> thought you might know, since you are breast feeding and drinking a
> bit. For example, would a mom who is a quart a day drinker of vodka
> while breast feeding cause any harm to her child at all? (I'm
> assuming she stopped during pregnancy and started up again after the
> baby was born for argument's sake.)
The breast milk is going to get alcohol in it in about the same proportion
that the blood does. So if you're at 0.10% BAC, the breastmilk is going
to be at that level. My mom said that in order for there to be much
effect on the baby, the mother would have to be practically in a coma from
alcohol consumption and someone else would have to bring the baby to the
mother for feeding.
I'm still staying away from the alcohol, though. I made it through one
football season without any beer, I can handle another one. ;) (I used
to sit down with a beer and chocolate-chip cookies during Monday Night
Football, but then again, I had a paying job that seemed to dump more of
its interesting stresses on me on Monday than any other day *anyway*.)
Julia
