Today is December 31. It is the last day of the year, tomorrow we start a new year and tonight you will celebrate it with your family at a dinner where there will be rich food and alcohol. At a time of the night you will decide that it is a good time to toast for the coming year and that is when pregnant women or those who are breastfeeding their babies will doubt whether or not they can drink some alcohol.
In the family there will be someone who tells you no, not to do it, and there will be someone who tells you that "yes, woman, nothing happens for a drink." Who will be right? Well let's see it: What can happen if pregnant or nursing tonight you drink with alcohol?
If you are pregnant
This photo that seems impossible, of a fetus drinking alcohol, is actually what happens when a woman drinks alcohol: what the mother drinks the baby receives, since the placenta does not filter alcohol. That is, if the mother drinks a cup, the fetus also drinks that cup, with the difference that the baby is much smaller and, even worse, has a brain in formation.
In Babies and more13 non-alcoholic cocktails to toast at ChristmasSo doing the simile that I already did once, if on New Year's Eve next year you are not going to give your baby a glass of alcohol to toast and celebrate the end of the year, you should not do so now, during the pregnancy. In fact, if you wanted to do it, you better do it next year than not now, pregnant, because by then your brain will be somewhat more mature.
But what will happen to the fetus? Well, if it's only once, nothing you can appreciate when you're born, really, but you probably get a little drunk if you drink that cup of "for once nothing happens," and I don't think any woman wants the son who is getting caught a cogorza for something that could have been avoided.
If you are breastfeeding
In case you are breastfeeding alcohol is less dangerous because you can decide when to breastfeed the baby. But that does not mean that it is harmless, because passes to milk. In case of drinking a little, say the ass of a drink, the risk is very low and then it is enough to do it when the baby has finished breastfeeding (that of "has been released and I know he will not ask me until here at one two hours"). If you drink more, then you can enter the rule that they comment on the e-breastfeeding page: 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).
What can happen if I drink alcohol and breastfeed? Well, if you do it without taking these precautions, what will happen is that your baby will also drink alcohol. If it is little, you will be sleepy and you will be dreadful ... the typical symptoms of "drinking a little". If it is a lot, you may have an ethyl coma.
So, What if you toast with something that does not carry alcohol?
Photos | DncnH, Photomontage with image of Lunar caustic and Dave O on Flickr, iStock
In Babies and more | Breastfeeding and alcohol, can I drink if I am breastfeeding ?, Yes, it is still necessary to warn that if you are pregnant you should not drink alcohol, not a drop of alcohol: today is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Day
