Before asking the question - whether it is possible for the nursing mother to drink champagne, remember that you are now responsible not only and not so much for your health, but for the health of a small and, in fact, a helpless little man. After all, he is not able to monitor your diet and decide whether he will drink milk smoking a drinking mother. He will happily kiss the chest, from where the most delicious food flows. And after a while he will feel the negative impact of what his mother did not have enough willpower to refuse.
How does alcohol affect breast milk?
Any alcohol is very quickly absorbed into the blood and immediately gets into the milk. If it's really unbearable, take a sip of dry wine (preferably white). Champagne is contraindicated in breastfeeding. However, like any other fizzy drinks.
Alcohol, getting into the body, reduces the production of the hormone oxytocin and reduces the amount of milk produced. With a large concentration of alcohol, the mother's body is dehydrated, and the production of oxytocin is completely blocked.
Is it possible to feed champagne occasionally?
Champagne, like other spirits, is contraindicated for the mother and because the child can be innocently harmed by alcohol intoxication. In the history of medicine, there have been cases of death due to this intoxication. For example, my mother drank fairly well in the evening, several times a night she fed her baby, and in the morning she found him dead in a crib. So judge, is your desire for alcoholic fun life crumbs?
In addition, accidents with the use of alcohol by the mother may be associated with inadequate behavior and inability to take care of the baby in a state of intoxication. For example, alcohol dulls the "watchful reflex" of the mother, who decided to put the baby in bed with herself for the night. She could just strangle him. There are also a lot of such cases - according to statistics, almost all accidents related to joint sleep occur because of the mother's drinking alcohol.
Hopefully, those who read this article, and in their thoughts do not allow to consume large doses of alcohol, including champagne, when lactating. If it is a purely symbolic reception of alcoholic beverages, then you can easily afford 25-50 grams of dry wine per day. But even this should not be abused - since it is written "per day", then I'll drink every day. It's one thing to sip a glass of wine on a holiday at a common table, the other - to apply to alcohol daily, hoping that everything will be fine.
By the way, the amount of alcohol allowed must be correlated with the child's age. If to him till 3 months, and he regularly and often is applied to a breast it is not necessary to drink more than one drink of wine. If the child is much older and in the next 3-4 hours will not eat, then you can afford one glass of good dry wine.
What to do if champagne can not be - but really want to?
If the child is on mixed feeding, and on the nose of the New Year or another family holiday, you can try to solve the situation in this way: on the day of the celebration, transfer the child completely to feeding with a mixture, and express the breast. It is necessary to do this, so that milk does not accumulate and does not bring
But even in this case, do not abuse alcoholic beverages. Remember that your responsibility is your beloved kid, who can be scared by an inadequate mother. In addition, do not forget about the risk that the baby, after spending all day and night with the bottle, and completely give up the chest. From the bottle, the mixture flows more readily, and it is still necessary to extract it from the breast.
Be that as it may, remember that any effervescent drinks to nursing mothers are contraindicated. And with other drinks you need to be extremely careful.