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Canada: "When breastfeeding, not drinking alcohol is safest." [11] Hong Kong: "Avoid alcohol and alcoholic drinks." [52] Iceland: Total abstinence advised because no safe consumption level exists. New Zealand: Abstinence recommended, especially in the first month of breastfeeding so that sound breastfeeding patterns can be established. [46]
Traditionally, breastfeeding has been defined as the consumption of breastmilk by any means, be it directly at the breast, or feeding expressed breast milk. [3] When direct feeding at the breast is not possible, expressed breast milk retains many unique nutritional and immunological qualities, and as such remains the gold standard for feeding infants. [4]
Breastfeeding, prehistorically, was the only way infants were nourished; there was no acceptable substitute for human milk for a long time. In 1 AD, philosophers were discovering the importance of breast milk versus any substitute. It was concluded that breastfeeding helped the mother and infant establish an emotional connection. [3]
‘It’s a way of connecting,’ mother says
Drinking 2 standard drinks a day, or 6 standard drinks in a short time, carries a 4.3% risk of a FAS birth (i.e. one of every 23 heavy-drinking pregnant women will deliver a child with FAS). Furthermore, alcohol-related congenital abnormalities occur at an incidence of roughly one out of 67 women who drink alcohol during pregnancy. [ 29 ]
While she and her husband started baby-led weaning around 6 months, Landers decided to continue nursing, even past the one-year mark. "I felt like it still worked with our routine," she says.
For this reason, the nutrition of the mother is important from before conception (probably several months before) as well as throughout pregnancy and breastfeeding. An ever-increasing number of studies have shown that the nutrition of the mother will have an effect on the child, up to and including the risk for cancer, cardiovascular disease ...
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