To have a glass of wine while pregnant?

Fgs that you even have to ask this question shows that you can't care enough about the possible effects this could have on your baby. And for what? Is it worth it?!

It makes no sense if you don't understand how body processes food as opposed to alcohol. Alcohol is absorbed into your blood which you share with the baby. The effect on the baby's blood alcohol is no different than if it had drank the wine. Chips are not absorbed into your blood as chips. It's not like feeding the baby chips.

I would order a small glass and have a few mouthfuls of it for the taste only. In third trim the placenta is sharing what’s in your blood with them so I wouldn’t have more than that . But it’s all about your personal risk tolerance.

A glass of wine won’t likely do anything but medically it’s not no risk, so up to you. Just coz others do it doesn’t make it no risk, so it’s a personal decision.

i had a real craving for red wine in my 3rd trim. However when I eventually got a glass it tasted like metal!! So my body was saying no. It might be you don’t like it after a few mouthfuls!

when people are saying show us the research to say one drink doesn’t do harm, remember it is difficult to do direct studies…..because it’s unethical! unethical to ask a mother to consume alcohol for research when we don’t know the effects on the baby. We know alcohol isn’t good for you, we know the negative effects it has on the body sonorous can’t ask women to participate and voluntarily pass this to babies blood.

There should then, be clear macro data that shows differences in outcomes pre and post recommendations changing. Or comparing outcomes in different countries with different recommendations.

This data never seems to materialise either.

This makes no sense. Once the baby is born, it should only be fed milk. So should the OP stick to drinking milk only while pregnant. Don't be silly.

To Begs the Question, thanks for your concern, no damage caused, I was a sensible drinker as an adult.

No and if I need to ask I would know the answer is no in the first place

Very occasionally in my last pregnancy. I worked out how much 1 unit was and that’s what I had 😂

Wasn't it to make babies sleep?

I hope it hasn't caused you any long term damage.

I mean, doctors back then also promoted smoking, so thankfully we've got more information and know better these days.

To Nowlam 35, I was a premature baby born 1946 and the family doctor told my mother that she should put a small amount of brandy in my bottle of milk -not sure of the frequency, but I do remember her telling me that I always finished off the bottle that had brandy in it.

Ew.

Well maybe we will reach them manners.

Yes I would (and did) - an occasional glass, especially so far on will do no harm.

@NowIam35 after 1 small glass of wine, the mothers blood alcohol content is going to be 0.01%.

This is not going to damage the baby. It is not drinking the glass of wine itself.

You should be careful with what you consume and do in pregnancy - but you also need to be rational about the risks you take (with everything).

@MidnightPatrol even if a small % gets passed on via the placenta, a foetus is a considerably smaller weight than an adult so will be more affected by it. Plus a foetus's liver is not fully developed so cannot process alcohol the same, and their brains are at a crucial point in development. Like I said earlier, the risk is minimal from one glass of wine. But the risk isn't zero.

I think as the blood supply between mother and fetus is directly shared, it would be the same as the blood stream of the mother.

And what percentage of the blood is alcohol, at the point it crosses into the babies bloodstream via the placenta, after one glass of wine?

I don't think you can compare alcohol to a glass of orange juice or cup of tea 😂.

No, because I can feel one glass and I'm fully grown, so I'm sure a fetus doesn't need that at all.

All this handwringing over small amounts of alcohol is mad. Our babies are exposed to so much worse in the womb and out - micro plastics, house cleaning chemicals, traffic fumes, etc. if you fancy a glass of wine, have it.

I had to take my four children ( including a one year old ) to butlins on my own whilst 6 months pregnant at an October half term My husband was unable to come as was working.
My kids loved Butlins, I found it um rather hard work. One evening there I had a small glass of wine. It was welcome.
I am not alcohol dependent. I have about two drinks a year.
All OK. One drink in pregnancy is not going to hurt. Common sense and compassion ( self or otherwise) is most helpful for pregnancy and parenthood and life .

Exactly! I had one cup of caffeinated coffee per day whilst I was pregnant. Drank lots of fizzy (sugar free) lemonade! Ate chocolate, red meat! All sorts! All of these things are bad, and you wouldnt give them to a newborn baby, or even a 2 year old but apparently you aren’t meant to eat drink things you wouldn’t give to a new born baby (according to one person on this thread!) so let just all live on formula and breast milk whilst pregnant!

Again! What about the OPs post suggests she is reliant on alcohol?

Or COFFEE!!! I'm quaking at the things I exposed my babies too. Its a miracle they came through....

Precisely. Wonder how many of them have drunk orange juice whilst pregnant? Or ate tiramisu? Or eaten a certain kind of bread, or drank apple juice!