How Alcohol Affects Nursing Babies

This is about how some babies breastfeeding mothers think drinking a glass of wine or beer will make her baby sleep more soundly. In fact, a baby sleeps less after drinking that contained alcohol.

Studies show by an experiment by feeding plain breast milk to infants and breast milk with only a drop of alcohol. When the babies drank plain breast milk they slept an average of 78 minutes. The babies that had alcohol in their breast milk slept just 51 minutes.

Doctors say that an occasional drink won’t harm a baby, but it might mess with the babies sleeping pattern.

After babies are off breast milk they should never be given any alcohol based medicines. Many over the counter medicines contain high amounts of alcohol. To a baby that weights 10 pounds 1 tablespoon can make a baby legally drunk. Parents have been arrested for this, parent will give their babies alcohol based medicines to get them to sleep better at night.

Babies have been known to become alcoholics later on in life. It has become a problem with lower income families due to they have no insurance. Children and teens also have a problem with alcohol medicine for a high. To get off the medicine is a very hard thing to do.

The withdrawals are wicked. Some children die of this problem.

Some can overdose, have serious side effects. Even worse death. It is a big thing in the cities to get this medicine. You can get drunk on this stuff but it has a depression affect.