One paper carefully calculates that even if you had four drinks very quickly and then breastfed at the maximum blood alcohol level, the baby would still be exposed to only a very, very low concentration of alcohol, one that is extremely unlikely to have any negative effects.29 And this is in a kind of “worst-case scenario.” This paper cautions that drinking four drinks quickly will impair your ability to parent and is not healthy, so it should be avoided, but the issue isn’t alcohol in your breast milk. Therefore, there is no need to pump and dump. The milk has the same alcohol concentration
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