What kind of rules do you follow? I'd really like a glass of wine but I'm not sure when to have it or how much to have.
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I go by the rule if ok to drive ok to BF. I will usually have a glass when BF her. Usually I just have one but some nights 2.
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Same as @Smurfette.
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I will occasionally have a glass after I've put her down for the night. She usually won't wake up to nurse until 2/3am, so my body has a few hours to metabolize the alcohol (so I might have a glass at 9pm or so, and then 5-6 hours until I nurse). I didn't start having the occasional glass of wine until she was about ten months old or so. I'm just not a big drinker anyway, so it wasn't like I was trying to be perfect, I just didn't have any.
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Same as @Smurfette: !
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Same as @Smurfette: and @aprk: !
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I will have one small drink (usually I split a high alcohol content beer w/hubby, or a small glass of wine) with dinner. I had two the other night and gave her a bottle so I could have an hour btw finishing the last drink and nursing. When she is older (3 months, maybe a little sooner?) I will follow the "okay to drive" rule.
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I've only had a glass after putting LO down for the night (he usually STTN). I was actually just reading up about it on KellyMom earlier today--there's a lot of info there if you want to check it out.
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I've had 2 glasses and breastfeed. I've used milkscreen to determine if it's okay or not and I've always been fine!
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Our pedi told us that the best time to have a glass of wine is WHILE yo'ure nursing--the wine will peak in your system right as baby finishes, so by the time she wants to eat again, it'll be out.
But honestly, I think 1 glass of wine is fine...I agree with others that if you feel fine to drive, you're fine to nurse.
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Agree with PPs who say good to drive, good to fee. I usually just have a glass of wine immediately after feeding her for the night. Tonight though I had wine with dinner and am feeding her now about an hour and a half later. Didn't feel any effects at all and I feel that she's perfectly safe.
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I used to do 2 hours per drink, but I've relaxed a bit and now if I'm okay to drive I'm ok to bf. I rarely have more than 1 now anyway.
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My LO. Is 9 months old so I will occasionally have a drink at dinner after she goes to bed. She doesn't feed again until 2-3 so plenty of time for my body to metabolize the alcohol.
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Same as smurfette! I have a glass most evenings with or after dinner
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My midwife told me, when I got home from the hospital, to have a glass of red wine because it would help me relax and also help with letdown. She said a glass a day was fine and even helpful! She suggested leiberfraumilch and gerwurtztraminer especially and I love them both! I would have about 4-6oz each night for the first week and then tapered off a little. Now I mostly keep my drinking to after J goes to bed, and I'll have a beer now.
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The first few months, if I drank it would be mostly just before or while nursing, and usually only one. Now that he sleeps through the night, I feel free to have a glass or two...or two and a half
after he's down for the night.
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When I do have a drink I usually have half a glass of whatever I'm having and I drink it while feeding or just after.
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One glass without any thought, any more and I wait til after he's asleep and I have several hours til I bf again.
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I had my first wine last night!! Just half a glass but it was delicious and didn't seem to affect LO
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I'll have one glass wine right after he goes to sleep. I stopped for a while because I was pumping before bed and then he was waking up around 9pm, but now I'm following the driving/feeding rule. I've also applied that to a glass of beer recently.
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And by glass of wine, I mean 4oz.
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Same as @Smurfette! I love to have a glass while nursing her at night.
after he's down for the night.
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