Your cycle and the LE diet

[SoFullofHope]

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[atomic sagebrush]

It is fine to nurse a 15 month old while having a drink or two even every day.

Alcohol comes out in the same concentration in breastmilk as your blood at most. So even if you were technically drunk, .08 BAC, the concentration of alcohol in your breastmilk could not be enough to harm a baby. It is 1/100th of the amount of alcohol in one glass of wine. You would be dead from alcohol poisoning long before the concentration of alcohol in your breastmilk could harm your baby. People give their babies vitamins and medications (recommended by doctors, no less) that are many, many times higher in alcohol than a woman's breastmilk could be even after several drinks. Plus, most people will nurse before they drink and then wait a few hours before nursing again (even though you don't even have to do that, honestly)

1-2 drinks with any baby over 9 months is perfectly fine. Would I nurse a newborn after drinking, no, of course not, but no one on this site ever suggested that.

The main reason why some experts warn against doing this is the risk of causing your baby harm while drunk. People get sleepy after drinking and if a woman were to nurse a small baby and fall asleep holding it, that could end in tragedy, but nursing a toddler after having 1-2 drinks is safe and fine.

[SoFullofHope]

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[atomic sagebrush]

No, not at all, many sources say that, but they are just erring on the side of caution (and since not that many people nurse more than a few months, it makes sense with a newborn, not so much with a toddler.)

I always welcome the chance to clarify anything along these lines.

[SoFullofHope]

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