Will Drinking Beer Increase Your Milk Supply?

Doctors actually used to encourage mom's to drink a beer soon after she had a baby. This is not the case today.

You may feel like you have more milk at first after drinking a beer. In the long run alcohol dries you out.

Alcohol disrupts the hormones that are involved in milk production.

Julie Mennella, a researcher at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia who studies alcohol's affect on lactation, explains that while prolactin (a hormone that aids milk production) increases with alcohol consumption, oxytocin (a hormone that's responsible for milk letdown) decreases. Researchers think this may explain why babies have a harder time breastfeeding when their mothers drink alcohol.

Hair Loss, Is it Caused By Breastfeeding?

• The answer is no. It is caused by changes in a new mom's hormones.
  
• During pregnancy, changes in your hormone levels cause your hair to stay in a resting phase, so hair loss is less. You may have noticed that your hair seemed thicker maybe even shinier than usual.
  
• After you've given birth and your hormones have settled down, usually at about 12 weeks after birth, hair shifts into a shedding phase. It was alarming to me to put my fingers through my hair, and have hair come out by the handful.
• You start to lose your hair about the same time your baby loses his or her hair.
  
• Normally, you lose about 100 to 125 hairs a day. After delivery, you may be losing about 500 a day. This may be alarming, but you will not go bald.
• I had what I called, "Baby Hair" grow back. It started growing back when I noticed my babies hair was growing back.