how long should you wait to breastfeed after drinking?
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"If a mom is going to drink alcohol, she should wait at least three to four hours until breastfeeding the baby," Dr. Herway says. (The AAP says to wait a minimum of two hours.) "The amount of alcohol in breast milk is very similar to the amount in the woman's blood and alcohol is a fast-acting drug," explains Conover.
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To reduce the risk for passing on caffeine to your baby, have a cup of coffee right before feeding your baby, or, if your baby goes more than 2 hours between feedings, wait to have your coffee until right after you've finished feeding baby.
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How Long Should I Breastfeed My Baby? That's a personal choice. Experts recommend that babies be breastfed exclusively (without formula, water, juice, non–breast milk, or food) for the first 6 months. Then, breastfeeding can continue until 12 months (and beyond) if it's working for you and your baby.
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It might be tempting, but you should avoid alcohol for 48 hours after having breast surgery, and try to limit your intake in the weeks leading up to surgery.
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The World Health Organization recommends breastfeeding babies up to two years. Some mothers have decided to breastfeed until the child is no longer interested. In some cases, this may last until the child is five years old.
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It is recommended to wait at least 48 hours before resuming alcohol consumption. After surgery, especially for the first 24 hours, it is advised that you take this opportunity to relax and recover.
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Delay the introduction of bottles for at least three to four weeks. It is highly tempting at times to offer a bottle in the early weeks of breastfeeding to let a tired new mother get some badly needed rest. But early use of bottles before breastfeeding has become well established can undermine breastfeeding success.
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Many moms get the most milk first thing in the morning. Pump between breastfeeding, either 30-60 minutes after nursing or at least one hour before breastfeeding. This should leave plenty of milk for your baby at your next feeding.
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Breastfeeding - I am breastfeeding. Can I donate? For your health, following childbirth you need to wait at least nine months and until your baby is significantly weaned (that is, getting most of his/her nutrition from solids) before you donate blood.
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Pump between breastfeeding, either 30-60 minutes after nursing or at least one hour before breastfeeding. ... If your baby wants to breastfeed right after breast pumping, let them! Some babies are patient and will just feed longer to get the milk they need.
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If a mother has consumed more than a moderate amount of alcohol, she may choose to wait 2 hours (per drink) to breastfeed her child, or feed her infant with milk that had been previously expressed when she had not been drinking, to reduce her infant's exposure to alcohol.
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Keep in mind that the concentration of caffeine in your breast milk will peak about two hours after breastfeeding. We recommend limiting your daily caffeine intake to less than 300 milligrams. For comparison, 500 milligrams is about 3 (8 oz) cups of coffee.
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Some experts recommend breast-feeding moms avoid drinking alcohol until their baby is 3 months old.” The AAP recommends that “ingestion of alcoholic beverages should be minimized and limited to an occasional intake but no more than 0.5 g alcohol per kg body weight, which for a 60 kg mother is approximately 2 oz liquor, ...
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When pumping to increase milk supply, it's recommended that you (double) pump for at least 15 minutes; to ensure that the pump removes an optimum amount of milk from the breast, keep pumping for 2-5 minutes after the last drops of milk.
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To help prevent the milk from coming back up, keep your baby upright after feeding for 10 to 15 minutes, or longer if your baby spits up or has GERD. But don't worry if your baby spits sometimes. It's probably more unpleasant for you than it is for your baby. Sometimes your baby may awaken because of gas.
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Starting with your infant's second day and throughout the next few days, it will be important to aim to nurse 8 to 12 times (or even more) in 24 hours – both day and night – in order to stimulate milk production, help your baby regain weight lost after birth, and protect your baby against or treat jaundice5.
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A bottle-feeding should take about 15-20 minutes. If the baby finishes the bottle in 5-10 minutes, the flow is likely to fast. If it takes your baby 30-45 minutes to take a bottle, the flow is too slow. Consider changing the bottle and nipple to meet your baby's needs.