Drinking Alcohol while breastfeeding

For new moms, everything seems confusing, and now and then, you are looking out for various answers to various questions.

 Making decisions for new parents can never be easy because it takes a lot of thinking to realize what will be best for your child. Such as the decision between whether to feed your child breastmilk or formula milk. For years doctors have always recommended that a child should at least breastfeed for six months because it is the healthiest option for your child, both physically and emotionally. However, if you choose breastmilk as your option, you also need to take care of your diet so that your milk is not harmful to your kid. There are many things that your doctor will ask you to add to your diet and something to eliminate as well.

Breastfeeding also needs lifestyle changes. For example, during pregnancy, you were not allowed to smoke and drink the same as breastfeeding.

In today's article, we will discuss whether a woman can drink Alcohol while breastfeeding or not.

The bottom line to the question is that a woman should not drink alcohol, as drinking alcohol while breastfeeding can bring the risk to her baby.

Whenever a mother consumes Alcohol, it reaches amounts in her breast milk similar to those in her bloodstream. Although a breastfed baby is only exposed to a portion of the Alcohol consumed by their mother, a newborn's body removes Alcohol at half the speed of an adult.

You may have heard many rumors that drinking Alcohol increases milk production, but there is very little truth to this rumor. Alcohol drinks like beer have an ingredient called barley. Barley has a nutrient called polysaccharide, which helps in the production and stimulates milk production, so it is the barley that helps in production, but alcohol consumption itself only leads to a decrease in milk production.