Table 2.

Mothers’ Perceptions^*

	Type of Beer Consumed by the Mother
	Nonalcoholic	Alcoholic
Percentage of feeds that mothers …
experienced a letdown	78 (23)	77 (22)
felt baby got enough milk	100 (23)	82 (22)
felt they had milk remaining in breasts at end of feed	74 (19)	78 (18)
ended the feed	33 (24)	26 (23)

^*The percentage of feeds that the mothers experienced a letdown, felt their babies got enough milk, felt they had milk in their breasts at the end of a feed, and ended the feed during each of the 4-hr testing sessions. During one session, the nursing mother drank a 0.3 g/kg dose of alcoholic beer, whereas during the other she ingested an equal volume of nonalcoholic beer. The number in parentheses represents the total number of feeds after which the mothers responded. There were no significant differences for any of these measures when compared with session in which the mother drank the nonalcoholic beer.