Ultimately, there is a higher concentration of alcohol in some fruit juices-which can contain up to 0.1 percent alcohol due to fermentation of the sugars-than there is in the breast milk of a tipsy nursing mom. Babies break down alcohol more slowly than adults do, but since they consume so little alcohol from breast milk in the first place, this difference “should have no clinical significance,” researchers concluded in a recent research review on the topic. If a 150-pound nursing mom downs four alcoholic drinks-say, four 5-ounce glasses of table wine-and then breast-feeds her 13-pound baby 4 ounces of milk when she’s at her tipsiest, her baby will end up with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.0038 percent-the same blood alcohol concentration her mom would have after consuming a mere 1.5 ounces of Bud Light (one-eighth of a 12-ounce bottle). But even if you’ve refilled your glass a few times, there is very, very little alcohol in your milk-and very little ingested by your baby.
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