How long after drinking alcohol can I breastfeed?

Many pregnant women love to drink when they are preparing for pregnancy, and it is difficult to quit. They can refrain from drinking during pregnancy, but after ten months of pregnancy, they still can't help drinking during breastfeeding. Drinking during breastfeeding will have certain effects on your own body and the baby you are breastfeeding. You definitely cannot breastfeed immediately after drinking. So how long after drinking can you breastfeed? Let’s master it together.

How long can you drink before breastfeeding?

If a breastfeeding mother drinks a standard flow of about 10 grams of ethanol, she needs to calculate the flow and alcohol content.

For 10 grams of ethanol, it takes about 2 hours for the ethanol to completely disappear from the blood and milk; for 20 grams of ethanol, it takes about 4 hours to metabolize; for 30 grams of ethanol, it takes 6 hours.

The time is calculated from the beginning of drinking. Mothers can use professional alcohol content calculator software to calculate the amount you drink and how long it will take to completely metabolize it from your body.

What should breastfeeding mothers avoid eating?

1. Try not to drink a lot of coffee and strong tea, because they contain caffeine, which can stimulate the baby's nervous system after being passed to the baby through breast milk, causing the baby to be overly excited, irritable and even difficult to fall asleep.

2. If the mother is allergic to some foods, or the mother eats some foods and then breastfeeds and causes the child to have allergies, such as eczema, diarrhea or bloody stools, then you need to consult a doctor to see if the baby's skin allergies are related to specific foods, and then choose to avoid eating them.

3. When the mother has eaten some strong-flavored foods, such as onions, garlic, and spicy foods, some babies will feel uncomfortable and cry and make a fuss. The mother should try to avoid eating these foods.

4. Breastfeeding mothers can eat chocolate, but they must pay attention to the amount, which depends on the physical fitness of each woman and the age of the baby.

5. Eating too much of some cold fruits can easily cause indigestion. If breastfeeding mothers eat too much cold fruits such as melon, it can also easily cause diarrhea in babies.

6. Hawthorn, cherry, pomegranate, lychee, etc. are damp and hot in nature, but eating too many warm fruits in summer can easily cause getting angry, so parents who are breastfeeding should not eat too many of them.

After reading the above introduction, I believe everyone knows how long you can breastfeed after drinking. It still depends on the amount of alcohol the mother drinks to determine the degree of alcohol metabolism. You can calculate it according to the formula I gave, but I still recommend that breastfeeding mothers drink less or no alcohol during breastfeeding. In addition, other dietary aspects should also be paid attention to.