Although a breast-fed baby is exposed to just a fraction of the alcohol his or her mother drinks, a newborn eliminates alcohol from his or her body at only half the rate of an adult,” wrote Mayo Clinic lactation consultant Elizabeth LaFleur. “When you drink alcohol, it passes into your breast milk at concentrations similar to those found in your bloodstream. I could have cleaned the toilet with it.”Īccording to the Mayo Clinic, it is never okay to breastfeed after drinking alcohol, and that’s because there is no level of alcohol in breast milk that is considered safe for baby’s consumption. “My milk was so full of alcohol, I could have used it to start a bonfire in the yard. “I could smell the sake bombs in the bottle,” she writes in true Snooki fashion, according to the NY Daily News. In her upcoming memoir entitled Baby Bumps: From Party Girl to Proud Mama, and All the Messy Milestones Along the Way, Polizzi admits she realized after the alcohol debacle that her days of partying would have to be left behind if she wanted to be a good mother to her son, Lorenzo. Nicole Polizzi, better known as “Snooki” from MTV’s Jersey Shore, says she stopped drinking after an alcohol-fueled night ended with her breast milk smelling of liquor.
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