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If it's really heavy drinking then you'd have to pump and dump. There are alcohol test strips for your breast milk. You should get those so you can test to make sure that there is no alcohol left in your system.

When the alcohol leaves your system it leaves your breastmilk too... so you don't have to pump and dump unless you are uncomfortable/engorged. When you're feeling back to normal your milk is fine!
My lactation consultant has always said that a couple of alcoholic beverages per week are fine and not to even worry about the timing. Only if you exceed that do you need to avoid bf'ing.

Exactly what ohapostrophe said. Alcohol doesnt just sit in your breastmilk, it cycles through it just like with your blood. As the content in you blood decreases, it does in your milk as well. My LC, my pedi 9from Europe, so very BF educated) and my OB all told me the same thing with that. Pumping and dumping wont rid it from your BM quicker, but it will help with engorgement. buy the test strips if you want to be positive.