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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Breast-feeding and alcohol don't mix well. [b]There's no level of alcohol in breast milk that's considered safe for a baby to drink.[/b]

When you drink alcohol, it passes into your breast milk at concentrations similar to those found in your bloodstream. Although a breast-fed baby is exposed to just a fraction of the alcohol his or her mother drinks, a newborn eliminates alcohol from his or her body at only half the rate of an adult."
---Mayo Clinic[/quote]
Translation: we can't do experimental studies on alcohol and nursing women and there is no downside for us to say it is unsafe to drink even though there is no evidence that it causes long term harm to a nursing baby.[/quote]

Thank you Emily Oster.

Folks, alcohol is bad for you but worse for your kids.  No your child will not develop FAS from this.  FAS is extreme, obviously detectable damage.  Low exposure will not get you past that threshold. But let’s not pretend it’s ok just because we can’t run the (inevitably low power) experiment. Use your common sense.  [/quote]

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