A safe amount of wine?

[Smoke Jaguar]

If the alcohol had cleared in that hour, no problem. If not, just tweak your drinking style next time. The pamphlet isn't to make you feel bad, just to inform you on how to gauge - it will be different for everyone

[Nelle]

And keep in mind the potency of your drink - some wine can be 3 standard drinks per glass, so keep an eye on that too.

[Jas]

One standard drink takes 2-3hrs to get out of your system (I often have a calculator and measuring cup when I have a drink) I hardly ever have a drink until Spence is down for the night which means I have 11hrs until his next feed.

A lot of the premixed drinks and the little bottles of riccadonna are 1 standard drink, riccadonna is a good one to have a lot for your standard drink

[Barb Glare]

I urgue you to reAd the Aba brochure as posted by Mayaness.
Somehow the imperitive to stay "pure" and not drink is put on breastfeeding. Women. In fact current Australian guidelines sAy thAt women should have no
more 1-2 standArd drinks - that's all of us, whether we are breastfeeding or formula feeding -18 or 80. It's bad for our heAlth. Many of uschoose not to follow those guidelines.
The real problem is drunk parents are not really good parents regardless of how they feed their baby.
For many woman working with the pressures in our society the alternatives are not "drinking or not drinking" when you gave a young baby, they are having a drink and giving thebaby formula. The consequences of formula feeding to the health of mothers and babies is real and thoroughly researched. No negatve consequences have been found in
babies of mothers who drink even high amounts of alcohol have been found. The amount of alcohol that would be ingested over a few drinks over a night is inconsequential. So don't get into a lather about it. Your MCHN was basically right.

[Kazmar]

Thanks very much ladies

Barb-Can I get to this brochure through the link on your signature?

Also Im expressing so I can drink on Thursday night. Im thinking Ill need to feed Lucy twice in this time. How many mls should I express?

[Ella]

I just looked at the brochure, you can get to it through Barb's signature link.

It's absolutely wonderful and very infomative!

[Kazmar]

I found the brochure answered all my questions! Well what I have been doing is fine I feel better now!

But I do still need to know about how many mls for Lucy need to be expressed. Im hand expressing, man its not easy!

These points are great to have actually 'in words'
• It is better to give a breastfeed with a small amount of
alcohol than to feed artificial baby milk.
• There are risks in feeding your baby artificial baby milk.

[MantaRay]

Hun, Lucy is probably drinking about 750mls in 24 hours. So to get a rough guide as to how much you will need, divide 750 by the number of feed she has in 24 hours, and that is the approximate amount per feed. Often though babies drink less from a bottle or cup then they do from mum, so she might drink less and make up for it when you are able to feed her again.