Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Monday, May 29, 2006
Alcohol passes freely into mother's milk and has been found to peak about 30 to 60 minutes after consumption, 60 to 90 minutes when taken with food. Alcohol also freely passes out of a mother's milk and her system. It takes a 120 pound woman about two to three hours to eliminate from her body the alcohol in one serving of beer or wine...the more alcohol that is consumed, the longer it takes for it to be eliminated. It takes up to 13 hours for a 120 pound woman to eliminate the alcohol from one high-alcohol drink. The effects of alcohol on the breastfeeding baby are directly related to the amount the mother consumes.
Do I have to pump and dump after drinking an alcoholic beverage?
As alcohol leaves the bloodstream, it leaves the breastmilk. Since alcohol is not "trapped" in breastmilk (it returns to the bloodstream as mother's blood alcohol level declines), pumping and dumping will not remove it. Pumping and dumping, drinking a lot of water, resting, or drinking coffee will not speed up the rate of the elimination of alcohol from your body.
Your baby's age
* A newborn has an immature liver, and will be more affected by alcohol
* Up until around 3 months of age, infants metabolize alcohol at about half the rate of adults
* An older baby can metabolize alcohol more quickly than a young infant
Do I have to pump and dump after drinking an alcoholic beverage?
As alcohol leaves the bloodstream, it leaves the breastmilk. Since alcohol is not "trapped" in breastmilk (it returns to the bloodstream as mother's blood alcohol level declines), pumping and dumping will not remove it. Pumping and dumping, drinking a lot of water, resting, or drinking coffee will not speed up the rate of the elimination of alcohol from your body.
Your baby's age
* A newborn has an immature liver, and will be more affected by alcohol
* Up until around 3 months of age, infants metabolize alcohol at about half the rate of adults
* An older baby can metabolize alcohol more quickly than a young infant
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Read an interesting article in WSJ titled “We’re destroying the past”. It’s about how we communicate nowadays via internet using e-mails, skype messages, yahoo messages and we keep no records of them. By the end of the day, when we switch off the computer, all messages are trashed. As for e-mails, periodically, they are trashed too.
I quote, “What’s more, there’s no ceremony to it – no arrival of an airmail letter littered with exotic stamps and postmarks, no careful opening of the envelope, no delicate unfolding of the wispy airmail sheets inside. Now we press a little green button and we chat, and prety much immediately afterward forget whether it was we talked about. As with most internet-based communication, the quality of our exchanges has declined in exact proportion to the growing ease with which we can communicate.”
Further quote, “ I’m not saying this is all bad. It’s wonderful to be able to stay in touch with people we love, quickly and easily. And I’m sure there must be lots of people who still write longhand letters. Some of them must also write long and thougtful emails that aren’t cheapened by the medium. But our generation may be the last that bequeaths treasures in a suitcase, which not only contain words but smell, the feel, the touch of the person writing, and the age they belonged to.”
I quote, “What’s more, there’s no ceremony to it – no arrival of an airmail letter littered with exotic stamps and postmarks, no careful opening of the envelope, no delicate unfolding of the wispy airmail sheets inside. Now we press a little green button and we chat, and prety much immediately afterward forget whether it was we talked about. As with most internet-based communication, the quality of our exchanges has declined in exact proportion to the growing ease with which we can communicate.”
Further quote, “ I’m not saying this is all bad. It’s wonderful to be able to stay in touch with people we love, quickly and easily. And I’m sure there must be lots of people who still write longhand letters. Some of them must also write long and thougtful emails that aren’t cheapened by the medium. But our generation may be the last that bequeaths treasures in a suitcase, which not only contain words but smell, the feel, the touch of the person writing, and the age they belonged to.”
