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I don't have children yet but just wanted to pose a question to everybody based on something I saw at a 4th of July party last night.
A young mother (her baby was 5 days old) was evidently breastfeeding, as she took a couple of breaks to do so... yet she was smoking and drinking? I personally didn't say anything because I'm a non-confrontational person, I don't like telling people how to live their lives...
Thankfully it was brought up by someone else, but the young mother responded that "the doctor told her as long as she's not falling over drunk it'll be okay".
Is this true?
I was sure that you couldn't smoke or drink AT ALL while breastfeeding.
I don't have children yet but just wanted to pose a question to everybody based on something I saw at a 4th of July party last night.
A young mother (her baby was 5 days old) was evidently breastfeeding, as she took a couple of breaks to do so... yet she was smoking and drinking? I personally didn't say anything because I'm a non-confrontational person, I don't like telling people how to live their lives...
Thankfully it was brought up by someone else, but the young mother responded that "the doctor told her as long as she's not falling over drunk it'll be okay".
Is this true?
No. ONE beer is unlikely to do any harm. But the baby still gets some alcohol.
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I was sure that you couldn't smoke or drink AT ALL while breastfeeding.
I would have an occaisional beer. Very occaisional. I would never have risked smoking even though I was a smoker back then.
No. ONE beer is unlikely to do any harm. But the baby still gets some alcohol.
I would have an occaisional beer. Very occaisional. I would never have risked smoking even though I was a smoker back then.
^ We tend to flip out too much over the concept of pregnant/bf moms doing anything like that when in moderation its not going to kill the child. I mean obviously if she is is doing jello shooters,pot, and mudslides every night we might have an issue, but a beer every now and again is not going to kill the child.
Alcohol is in breastmilk the same way it is in your blood. If someone has a drink it's not likely to affect the baby, and esp. if someone has it right after a feed -- by the time the baby is fed again the alcohol will be out of the system.
^ We tend to flip out too much over the concept of pregnant/bf moms doing anything like that when in moderation its not going to kill the child. I mean obviously if she is is doing jello shooters,pot, and mudslides every night we might have an issue, but a beer every now and again is not going to kill the child.
Yah but "as long as you are not falling down drunk" is a little UNDER conservative in my book. I am not falling down drunk after 3 or 4 glasses of wine, but that is still too much for the wee one. There are a lot of things we hold the bar a little higher than failure to kill the child, including breastfeeding! And I sure as heck would not want to addict my poor baby to nicotine. I would not wish nicotine withdrawal on my worst enemy.
I don't have children yet but just wanted to pose a question to everybody based on something I saw at a 4th of July party last night.
A young mother (her baby was 5 days old) was evidently breastfeeding, as she took a couple of breaks to do so... yet she was smoking and drinking? I personally didn't say anything because I'm a non-confrontational person, I don't like telling people how to live their lives...
Thankfully it was brought up by someone else, but the young mother responded that "the doctor told her as long as she's not falling over drunk it'll be okay".
Is this true?
I was sure that you couldn't smoke or drink AT ALL while breastfeeding.
I think the rule of thumb for alcohol is that if you feel okay to drive (legally), then it's "safe" to breastfeed. I think for cigarettes it's 3 hours per cigarette. Personally, I wouldn't do either while breastfeeding, because why take the chance.... Plus, ideally, a new mother would already be used to not smoking/drinking from pregnancy... so what's another few months or year or however long she bf? I might be considered a bit extreme though, since I avoided all the "safe" medications too (except ibuprofen for about a week right after the c-section)
It took me more than 5 days but after a few months of breastfeeding - I really wanted a drink! If I was having more than 1 I got a bottle of pumped milk ready. Sometimes I would have one while I nursed to buy a little more time - it doesn't go straight to the milk so the baby wouldn't be affected. Then the next feeding would be a bottle and I would have a few hours 'off the clock' that way. I don't know about smoking. But everyone I know subscribed to the if you can drive, you can nurse theory.
Actually - being at a BBQ with a 5 day old sounds stranger than nursing after a drink. It sounds like you don't know her that well, so it seems like a big party. Not something I'd bring my newborn to!
I'd personally be more concerned about the smoking than the drinking. And if a woman gives them both up for pregnancy why can't she at least abstain till she is finished breast feeding?
Snarky comment to follow: she probably drank and smoked during pregnancy and this is just a continuation of the same behavior.
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