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In a message dated 8/27/01 5:23:40 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:

<<
i'd take a recipe swap! my son has milk and egg allergies and i think we're
bordering on becoming vegan, but we've been coming up with some great stuff.
i just made some strawberry tofu popsicles the other day that were delicious!

brenda >>


OOOOO pass along please?

Also since we are on the subject of food and such I have a question. If
a nursing mother drinks wine how much is passed to the child through breast
milk? Anyone know a percentage? We have a friend whose wife,I think and so
does dh,drinks an awful lot of wine. Her dd is 11 mos. and snacks at the
breast. I believe it is due to the taste?or quality of the milk. Plus the
fact that she is older and wanting solid foods which she does too but the
wine content I would think is rather high considering how much she drinks.
She drinks white wine only.

NICKI~

Tracy Oldfield

Also since we are on the subject of food and such
I have a question. If 
a nursing mother drinks wine how much is passed to the
child through breast 
milk? Anyone know a percentage? We have a friend whose
wife,I think and so 
does dh,drinks an awful lot of wine. Her dd is 11 mos.
and snacks at the 
breast. I believe it is due to the taste?or quality of
the milk. Plus the 
fact that she is older and wanting solid foods which
she does too but the 
wine content I would think is rather high considering
how much she drinks. 
She drinks white wine only.

 NICKI~

Nicki, I'm not sure what you mean by 'snacks' at the breast... is
this a problem? But on the question of alcohol, it's a really
individual thing, some people don't pass it through and some
people do, to greater or lesser extents. Without actually taking
milk samples at various times of day to a food-testing lab and
getting it analysed, I don't know how one would know :-( I think
there could be 'half-life' tables for it on the LLL site somewhere
though, http://www.lalecheleague.org which should say how long
it takes for alcohol to pass into milk and average transferral rates...

HTH
Tracy

Saga

I was told that alcohol (especially wine and dark beer) was good for milk
production and very little passed through to the baby (I was told this by
both a midwife and a doula - my childbirth class teacher). But I don't know
for sure. I do know that I stopped on the way home from the hospital with
my son to pick up some Stout :)

What does "snack at the breast" mean really? Is it every so often wants a
little nursie? My daughter is at the breast about every hour or two (she is
almost 10 months now), it's a comfort thing, and she needs it or she gets
cranky, its almost like it refuels her.

-Kristi

-----Original Message-----
From: Tracy Oldfield [mailto:tracy.oldfield@...]
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 4:49 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Breastfeeding ?, was reply to a digest


 Also since we are on the subject of food and such
I have a question. If 
a nursing mother drinks wine how much is passed to the
child through breast 
milk? Anyone know a percentage? We have a friend whose
wife,I think and so 
does dh,drinks an awful lot of wine. Her dd is 11 mos.
and snacks at the 
breast. I believe it is due to the taste?or quality of
the milk. Plus the 
fact that she is older and wanting solid foods which
she does too but the 
wine content I would think is rather high considering
how much she drinks. 
She drinks white wine only.

 NICKI~

Nicki, I'm not sure what you mean by 'snacks' at the breast... is
this a problem? But on the question of alcohol, it's a really
individual thing, some people don't pass it through and some
people do, to greater or lesser extents. Without actually taking
milk samples at various times of day to a food-testing lab and
getting it analysed, I don't know how one would know :-( I think
there could be 'half-life' tables for it on the LLL site somewhere
though, http://www.lalecheleague.org which should say how long
it takes for alcohol to pass into milk and average transferral rates...

HTH
Tracy


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Tracy Oldfield

>>I was told that alcohol (especially wine and dark
beer) was good for milk
production and very little passed through to the baby
(I was told this by
both a midwife and a doula - my childbirth class
teacher). But I don't know
for sure. I do know that I stopped on the way home
from the hospital with
my son to pick up some Stout :)<<


I'm sure there are more knowledgeable people on the
list than me ;-) but afair, a little wine (or whatever)
will help relax a mother who's stressing about nursing,
in the early days, and potentially open the milk-ducts
and nipple sphincters due to muscle-relaxant properties
(?) sorry if this is TMI for some folk... but a lot
will depress the whole milk-production process.
(Though obviously different folk will have differing
ideas of what is 'a lot' and what isn't...)

Tracy

Deborah W

It's the yeast in alcoholic drinks which can help with milk production, not
the alcohol.

A small amount of alcohol does get through to breastmilk - the exact amount
varies depending on the individual, the baby's nursing pattern, the length
of time between drinking the alcohol & nursing & other factors - but a
glass or two of wine is not likely to cause a problem. More than this,
though, or drinking regularly, may. Remember that alcohol is a depressant -
not really something you'd want your baby to have :-)

And "snacking" is certainly not a problem. Remember that breastmilk is more
than just food - it's also comfort - & *fluid* - very important! If the
baby is having frequent, short nursing sessions, she's getting lots of
foremilk to assuage her thirst. I know that I spend most of the day taking
small drinks from a bottle of water - this is the baby's equivalent.

Deborah

On 01:06 28/08/01, Saga wrote:

I was told that alcohol (especially wine and dark beer) was good for milk
production and very little passed through to the baby (I was told this by
both a midwife and a doula - my childbirth class teacher). But I don't know
for sure. I do know that I stopped on the way home from the hospital with
my son to pick up some Stout :)

What does "snack at the breast" mean really? Is it every so often wants a
little nursie? My daughter is at the breast about every hour or two (she is
almost 10 months now), it's a comfort thing, and she needs it or she gets
cranky, its almost like it refuels her.

-Kristi



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