Don't breastfeed for 24 hours after a drink - Page 3

[PatioGardener]

Originally Posted by AislinCarys

For once I'm proud to be Swedish! The story about the drunk breastfeeding just hit Swedish media the other day, and what was at the the bottom of the article? An info box telling you that there is more alcohol in plain aclohol-free juice than in breastmilk, even if the mother is very drunk!

This from a country that tries to keep down alcohol consumption with methods that any other country would call insane.

Go Sweden!

Do you have a link?

[AislinCarys]

Sorry, it was in the paper version of Sydsvenskan (the Malmö-based newspaper, largest morning paper in southern Sweden), and I searched but can't find the article in the online version.

Besides, of course, it is in Swedish.

[PatioGardener]

Originally Posted by AislinCarys

Sorry, it was in the paper version of Sydsvenskan (the Malmö-based newspaper, largest morning paper in southern Sweden), and I searched but can't find the article in the online version.

Besides, of course, it is in Swedish.

Thanks for looking, anyway! (I'd have love to have seen it, even though I can't read it )

[Rosehip]

Originally Posted by PatioGardener

And the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine's official response: http://www.bfmed.org/Media/Files/Doc...ly%202009).pdf

The final paragraph is great:

Ooo- I just saw this! I wrote them the minute I saw the Fox piece, and they said they would respond and they did