Help! Breast milk question.

Do not pump & dump! It’s safe after 2hrs to pump if you were drinking. If you want you can wait an additional 2hrs or what I do sometimes is wait & pump in the middle of the night the only thing is you might leak some. But I would also recommend you ordering the alcohol strips on Amazon. They work really well.

On the rare occasion that I would drink, I would pump right before going out or having the drink so then I could wait a bit longer to make sure it was safe so I didn't feel so full and/or leak

Don’t pump and dump. Pump and save the milk and put it in a bath. But yeah they say it’s safe after two hours. And what Toni said, if you’re going to have an occasional glass of wine, get the test strips to give you peace of mind.

And I commend yall that were able to crave alcohol after birth. I had my first glass of wine a few months ago after 3 years and I felt like a new drinker. Haven’t had one since lol

My midwife told me that the amount of alcohol that makes it through to the milk is like if you threw the alcohol into a swimming pool. She told me not to worry 👍

Pump and dump is more for comfort. Like if you have a few drinks so aren’t gonna feed baby from the boob till tomorrow, you may need to release the boob pressure to be able to sleep.

You don’t need to pump and dump.
You don’t need to wait to pump.
Breastmilk takes on such a negligible amount of alcohol (like a percentage of way your blood alcohol level is)
One glass of wine won’t impact your milk at all. Nor would two, or three, or four. The greater risk is now being drunk and not being capacitated to care for baby.

I only pumped and dumped when I was binge drinking at a bachelorette party and I didn’t even need it for the baby, she had plenty at home.
One glass of wine is totally fine.

I’ve had three babies and all different OBGYN’s with them. All 3 of those OBGYN’s told me “if you can find the baby you can feed the baby”

If you are really concerned, there are alcohol test strips you can get for breastmilk.

You don’t need to dump especially if it’s just one glass. I’ll only pump and dump if I have multiple cocktails with hard liquor. But supposedly even that is okay. I just do it to be safe.