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Originally Posted by Starfishy
Your wife doesn't drink coffee while she is breast feeding? Does she drink alcohol while breastfeeding? I only ask because my wife is currently breastfeeding and enjoys her daily coffee, she has even started having a glass of wine while out for dinner. (Baby is almost 6 months)
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American Academy of Pediatrics recommends holding feeding for 1-2 hours per drink to minimize exposure. Acute exposure seems to be fine with alcohol, though recent evidence suggests delayed psychomotor development with chronic exposure. Because we don't know where the line between acute exposure and chronic is, the least possiible is always the preferred option. Though I doubt a drink here and there would be chronic. Caffeine is actually ok, though irritability and difficulty sleeping have been reported with large doses. Very little caffeine gets into the milk, plus the fact that relatively so little milk is ingested make it actually quite safe.