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Milkease strips- wine while BFing

hulagirl94hulagirl94 member
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So I posted on here a few days ago a question about having wine while breast feeding.  Everyone eased my mind that "If you can drive you can nurse."  Good theory!  Just  in case I went by walgreens and bought these Milkease strips.  You put a drop of your milk onto the strip and it tells you if the alchol content is too high or just fine.

 Long story short... I had only had 1 glass of wine that night and my strip told me there was too much alcohol  in my milk.  I wasn't even buzzed!   I shouldn't have checked, but I went ahead and dumped a solid 4 oz down the drain.  It was like throwing away liquid gold.  I don't think I"ll be having another drink any time soon.  I'm just too chicken :( 

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Re: Milkease strips- wine while BFing

  • lgndangellgndangel

    just wondering if you waited an hour before testing?  I was told that one glass would take about an hour to metabolize so just wait an hour to BF.

    I usually have a quarter glass and wait an hour before I BF'd.(only did this once).

     

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  • hulagirl94hulagirl94 member
    No... it was only about 30 minutes after I had finished. But I had been nursing it for 2 hours before then.
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  • jenny1980jenny1980 member

    Same thing happened to me, and then I realized they tell you you are unsafe to nurse at like 2% blood alcohol level, which is ridiculous. If you're not buzzed, you're fine to BF. Really.

     

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  • MrsRebeccaMrsRebecca member

    According to my LC, you should apply the same rules to drinking and BFing as you do to driving.

    So when I'm planning to drink, I plan it so that I nurse, have a drink and then have 3 hours until my next nursing. By the time the next feeding rolls around the alcohol is out of my system.

    Sure it takes a little more work than it used to to enjoy a drink but I don't mind. It still allows me to indulge when I want to without worrying.

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  • epphdepphd member
    I really wouldn't count on the reliability of those strips - the manufacturers probably make a fortune on moms just figuring out how much is "enough but not too much," know what I mean?  Their reading can be altered by what you ate or how hydrated you are; they are hardly scientific.  Use common sense, drink lots of water, and don't finish a drink THEN nurse right away. 
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  • Sawyerplus1Sawyerplus1 member
    For liability reasons the manufacturers probably indicate "too high"of an alcohol level, when really it would be fine.?
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