Can you make alcohol from breast milk?

You do not have to pump and dump after drinking alcohol when you're breastfeeding, except for comfort. As alcohol leaves the bloodstream, it leaves the breastmilk. read more

You can add extra sugar to increase the alcohol percentage but it’s not required. (It makes it sweater, though.) By distilling it, you could get a nice liqueur but you would need a lot of breast milk for that. read more

It could if you don't take precautions. The same amount of alcohol that makes it into your bloodstream makes it into your breast milk. While the amount that's transferred if you drink a glass of wine is relatively small, your baby is tiny and has an immature liver. That means she can't process the alcohol as well as you can. read more

If you plan to drink alcohol, consider having a drink just after breast-feeding so that the alcohol begins to clear your breast milk during the natural interval between breast-feeding sessions. Pumping and dumping breast milk doesn't speed the elimination of alcohol from your body. read more