Worried!!

[Lisasm]

Hi I am really worried as I had flu and took loads of lemsip maxes for several days I also had several beers in a night out. I have now found out I'm 5 weeks pregnant. How badly have I damaged my unborn.

[BuzzardBird]

It's highly unlikely that you have damaged a baby so early. I got very drunk without realising I was pregnant and it was at about 5 weeks, I didn't find out I was pregnant until 8 weeks and I had wine in that time. I made up for it by not touching a drop of alcohol/caffeine or any other banned substances at that time like soft cheeses and peanuts etc until I had finished breast feeding. She was absolutely fine. I think you have to seriously abuse drugs and alcohol for the whole of the pregnancies to harm the baby.

Congratulations, you and your baby will be fine.

[BuzzardBird]

Also Lemsip max is only paraceptamol. My GP has me on Codeine 100mg for most of my pregnancy.