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Alcoholic beverages consumed by lactating women can significantly affect a baby, especially if we consider that the infant brain is forming during the first year of life and therefore substances in beer, tequila, whiskey , vodka or the like may interfere with neural development and permanently affect the intellectual faculties.

Alcohol passes freely into breast milk and reaches its peak within 30 to 60 minutes after ingestion, even if taken with food reaches its highest point in 60 or 90 minutes. The best advice is to not drink alcohol, but if you think it takes into account:

The liver processed without difficulty only 15 milliliters of alcohol per drink, which is roughly equivalent to a small glass of wine. Pediatricians are emphatic in stating that the mother may only take a drink, maximum two per day (30 ml total), and must be a lapse of more than three hours apart from each other.

If the doctor approves the use of alcohol, drink it just after feeding and not before.

Express milk before you drink alcohol to have a bottle in reserve if necessary.

If you drink will have to wait two hours after the last cup to feed your baby, which will allow most of the alcohol leaves your body.

credit to: María Elena Moura

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