We are already at December 31, the last day of the year and the last night. A night in which families get together for dinner and say goodbye to the year, while they wait until twelve o'clock at night to welcome the one who arrives, and wish everyone a good year.
At some point in the night some toast will be proposed, and champagne or champagne will be served for everyone to share the celebration; at that moment, women who are pregnant or breastfeeding will refuse to try alcohol until someone tells them: "Baby, woman, nothing happens for a drink."
Before the dilemma, we answer this question today: Can I toast with alcohol tonight if I am pregnant or breastfeeding?
In case of pregnancy
In case of pregnancy the fetus will receive the same amount of alcohol consumed by the mother, because the placenta does not filter alcohol. That is, if the mother drinks a glass of cava, the fetus also drinks it, because the same concentration in blood that she gets will have the baby, with an important difference: the fetus is much smaller than its mother and has its organs in formation.
In other words, so that it is understood: that a pregnant woman drinks a glass of alcohol tonight is equivalent to give a baby a cup of alcohol directly. If the pregnant woman had given birth yesterday, to give an example, it would be as if tonight she drank a drink and her baby, one day old, gave her the same amount in a bottle.
And this is very dangerous? They will ask some. Well man, dangerous in plan "your son will be born badly" no, none of that; the difference between a fetus that one night "drank" a glass of alcohol and that of a fetus who did not do so is, at birth, invaluable. But that does not mean that it is a fetus that one night he was relatively affected by alcohol.
In case of breastfeeding
Equinox advertising campaignIf the woman who doubts whether to drink or not is breastfeeding the risk is much lower, mainly because alcohol passes into milk, but in a much lower concentration than when I was pregnant. In addition, the mother has room for maneuver, and can decide whether or not to breastfeed at a specific time, or can wait until the baby has finished taking the shot. On the e-lactation page they explain it very well, it is recommended to wait two and a half hours to breastfeed for every 10-12 grams of alcohol:
The time needed to wait for breastfeeding so that the alcohol ingested occasionally has disappeared from milk and blood depends on the mother's weight (less weight, more time) and the amount of alcohol consumed (more alcohol, more time) . Avoid breastfeeding until after two and a half hours for every 10 -12 g of alcohol consumed: one third (330 ml) of beer 4.5%, a 120 ml glass of 12% wine or a glass of 30-40 ml of liquor 40-50%). Indicative times to wait for women of about 60 kg of weight: a glass of wine: 2.5 hours, two thirds of beer: 5 hours, three glasses of liquor: 7.5 hours, etc. (See table in the Can Fam Physician reference. 2002).
That is, they recommend wait a couple of hours if the mother drinks a glass of cava (It's about 10 g of alcohol). However, a few days ago we could read in the LactApp blog the opinion of Carlos González about it, and it is a bit more lax in his recommendations, stating that it would be enough for the nursing mother at the time she is in good condition consciousness state:
I think it is enough, even for the mother of a newborn who goes through alcohol frequently, just wait until the mother feels clear and is not visibly drunk (at that time, the blood alcohol level would be lower at 0.15 or 0.10 g per dl, 0.01 g per liter). And in children of several months of age whose mothers have only been with alcohol very sporadically, say on New Year's Eve, I think we should not even wait so long. That is to say, I am not afraid of the least that a baby takes 50 or 100 ml of breast milk every several months with an alcohol concentration of 0.2 or 0.3 g per dl, which is to be (the mother) as a Cuba, but for the child it is a ridiculous amount.
So therein lies the thing: if the woman is pregnant, better avoid it. If you are breastfeeding, you can have that cup to toast, if you feel like it (and if you take a few, wait a bit to be in good condition not only for milk, but to take care of your child).
