After how many drinks do you pump?

I was told if you feel safe to drive your safe to feed i belive its more to do with dropping the baby than the alchol content of your milk

So everybody alcohol tolerance is different. So somebody could have 3 drinks and it be fine where as somebody else could have 1 and that be their limit.

Pump and dump is outdated advice. It does not allow alcohol to leave your system any quicker and so is pointless. Alcohol leaves your milk in a similar fashion to leaving your blood stream. You can safely drink while breastfeeding but you do need to consider baby safety. The biggest risk to baby is not alcohol in the milk but safe sleeping/being cared for. If you are co-sleeping then I would severely limit alcohol intake and make sure the last drink is hours before bed time. Only drink at a level you are comfortable in being able to carry out your duty of care without your instincts and reactions being compromised. While baby was young I often had one drink and I would start while baby was feeding or shortly after. Alcohol takes around 20 mins to hit the milk and then it gives me the longest time possible for the alcohol levels to diminish before baby needs feeding again. Now he's much older and feeds much less I am more relaxed about how much I drink but again, not if I think I might need to bedshare

The advice now is to wait 2 hours after an alcoholic drink before feeding if you feel more comfortable, although it’s not necessary.

I've feed all may children after few drinks. As long as I ain't rough as then they be find. Tho very rare I'll have a drink Amy more x

Never dump!! I always save the milk anyway and use it for his baths. Also just purchased Frida alcohol test strips for breast milk which shows you whether or not there is alcohol present in milk and to what degree- been very helpful!

There's no need to pump and dump.

Breastmilk is actually a blood product, so the alcohol level in your milk is the same as the alcohol level in your blood. A blood alcohol level high enough to literally kill you is still lower than the alcohol level in standard orange juice, so it's realistically not going to do baby any harm. The biggest issue is being able to look after baby, not baby consuming any alcohol

If i drank one glass of wine, i would wait one hour to pump out feed. If i drank 2, then i would wait 2 hours after last drink is done to pump or feed, and so on